I just spent the most stress-filled lunch hour I’ve ever had, after checking in with my bank balances and finding that our hotel reservation for this weekend in Chicago had been canceled and credited back to my credit card! I used Hotels.com to make the reservation. I had used them when we went to New…
Blogger Stats has been unleashed on the world. Currently only available for BlogSpot Plus users, but they hope to have it available to others soon. I’d be interested to see how it works out for anyone using it! Sun announced this week that they are going to roll out a Linux desktop system. It seems…
Just finished up with getting my old PC installed in it’s new home, and now that I’m hot and sweaty, I figured I’d sit down and write a bit about what I like/dislike in XP after a few days of using it. Things I like: Clear Type -makes the screen so much more eye-friendly, and…
Gee with everything else going on around here, I forgot to tell you all about my trial run with Remote Desktop last night. It’s not exactly as sure-fire simple as the Sales guys made it out to be the few times I asked about it. First I setup the XP box at work to accept…
Turns out the laptop is a hardware issue afterall, only not with the mouse or the touchpad, seems to be a motherboard issue. Compaq is picking it up this afternoon and taking it in to be fixed under warranty. Thank God for warranties, I didn’t really want to replace the motherboard myself, too many other…
It figures, the answer to my MSN Messenger problem was sitting right in my inbox, thanks to Steven Vore. In response to your other query, Steven, I used to have Trillian running from behind the firewall but then our pseudo-ISP decided to start blocking IM traffic. I actually thought that perhaps MSN would work by…