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Wednesday, December 24, 2008 10:10 AM

Where's that stupid button again?!?!?!?

There are a number of things that drive me crazy about technology and gadgets, but one of the biggest is the lack of standards On the expensive and annoying end of this is how device manufacturers (e.g. cell-phone, music player, etc.) all seem to have...
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Tuesday, July 03, 2007 8:06 AM

a slightly misleading demo experience

I was shopping around for a new PC this weekend and was playing with the ones on display at Best Buy, Costco, etc. and noticed something funny - none of them had UAC enabled (this is the technology that sparked Apple's "cancel/confirm" Mac...
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Saturday, January 06, 2007 5:23 PM

Unexpected drawbacks of having your calendar on your phone

One of the best aspects of the SmartPhone is the fact that it has your calendar on it synced from Exchange. This means there's no more walking around the hallways wondering what conference room a meeting is taking place - or a mad rush back to your office...
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Tuesday, February 28, 2006 12:33 PM

My computer now has a mind of it's own...

My home computer has been getting fairly strange lately. To be more specific, the screensave often doesn't come on when it's supposed to, or will be on and without anyone doing anything will turn itself off. I'm not super concerned about burn in on the...
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Saturday, December 03, 2005 7:31 AM

When Linux Advocates Strike

Possibly the strangest experience I had while in Ireland this past week involved running into a bunch of Linux advocates. Then night before our flights out, we met up with a couple of Clodagh's friends at a pub in Dublin ( Porterhouse ) for a pint or...
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Monday, November 14, 2005 6:00 PM

Sometimes customer service gives OK advice

Update on the cable-modem situation. I ended up getting a new Motorola last week and it has actually allowed me to get faster connection speeds. Who knew!?!?!? Also, I haven't had problems with the connection being down - but I'm unconvinced that's completely...
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Saturday, November 05, 2005 9:16 AM

Software you should own (maybe)

I finally broke down this week and bought a copy of Partion Commander (I was actually looking for Partition Magic , but the store didn't carry it). I was trying to resize the partition on my hard drive so that I could install another version of Windows...
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Monday, October 31, 2005 11:04 AM

Random spurts of RSS feed from MSN My Spaces are driving me crazy

As I mentioned before I've started using RSS readers to keep track of a few sites, including some of my friends' blogs. So far bloglines has held up pretty well, but I've noticed that a couple of the sites have started exhibitng a strange behavior in...
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Monday, October 10, 2005 5:11 PM

Intro to RSS, or at least for me

If you're reading this blog then you've probably heard of RSS (my feed is here ) and have an aggregator program that you use regularly. Or, you're not using it because there's something that annoys you with how these programs generally work... I've actually...
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