The good news post-reinstalls on the gaming laptop? No more driver issues! Weird issues in Windows Security are resolved. The best part about re-installing Windows and then Steam and downloading a 128+ GB game? None of the Cloud Synced saves for Baldurs Gate 3 will successfully load....
I periodically forget how much of a pain Windows is. Most of the time, I’m using macOS for work and for my personal laptop. However, my gaming machine runs Windows because most games don’t run on (or don’t run well) on macOS. I also got tired of...
I had two problems with WordPress since I updated to 2.5.1 last week: the trackback field disappeared and no one could leave comments on the posts. The issue turned out to be an incomplete upload of the wp-admin/inludes folder. Once I re-uploaded the folder, the trackback field...
Here is an interesting idea: WEBook. According to the web site, the purpose of WEBook is to: WEbook is a revolutionary online book publishing company, which does for the industry what American Idol did for music. (Modestly speaking, of course.) Welcome to the home of groundbreaking User-Generated...
The site is currently going some updates from WordPress 2.1.3 to 2.5. The photography page is offline while some compatibility issues with the gallery are sorted out. Hopefully it won’t take that long… but you know how it goes. Related Images:
I found the following articles on Slashdot and thought I would share. Love the kitties! Owning a cat can help reduce the risk of heart attack by 30%. (Owning a dog also has similar benefits, too.) Bad Science Journalism and the Myth of the Oppressed Underdog. Interesting...
Taser, meet iPod. iPod, meet Taser. Isn’t that a natural combination? The concept appears to be that when someone tries to nick your MP3 player, you can shock the idea out of their crack-addled noggin with 50,000 volts. Presumably this particular piece of convergent genius emerged from...
Anyone played with Google Analytics? We’re considering using it at work, so I’ve justed the reference to the JavaScript file in the footer. (Took all of 2-3 minutes… Gotta love server-side includes!) Here is a test pdf file to see if Analytics will track PDF files. If...
Quick post during lunch… There were some crazy posts on Slash Dot and Gizmodo today: Pentagon report investigated lasers that put voices in your head Brain control headset for gamers Microsoft’s new line of Developer Action Figures Leaked RIAA Training Video for Prosecuters: Find Pirates, Find Crack-Dealing...
How is it possible that the biggest software company wants to gobble up one of the larges Internet companies? Last week on Friday, Microsoft made a hostile takeover bid for Yahoo. Since Friday, Google has taken an interest in Yahoo. So what is worse? Yahoo engulfed in...
Ah ha! Engadget is reporting that the iPhone will launch in France on the Orange network. France has unlocking laws… so what will that mean? Maybe the iPhones sold in France will be unlocked? (evil laughter ensues) Related Images:
From Slashdot: An anonymous reader writes to let us know that Verizon Wireless is planning to share its customers’ calling records (called CPNI) with “our affiliates, agents and parent companies (including Vodafone) and their subsidiaries.” The article explains that CPNI “includes the numbers of incoming and outgoing...
After many hours of searching and trying software, I have a unicode text reader/editor called AnyView on my cell phone that is capable of opening the artifact list for epona.net! WHEE!! This might not sound like much of an accomplishment, but for a linux-based mobile phone with...
Apparently, IBM has patented a basic of a UI (from Slashdot): theodp writes “What do you call it when you drag a pointer over a checkbox to select or deselect it depending on its original state? Answer: US Patent 7,278,116. On Tuesday, the USPTO awarded IBM a...
An-ti-ci-pa-tion… I’ve been waiting for a bloody week. And today, my precious has arrived! For over a year I have been lusting after the Motorola Ming A1200. The Ming is a quad-band GSM phone, so it works in analog and digital frequencies both here and in Europe....
Okay, not sure what is going on. I have a 6k running the stock Sharp ROM. I have a 1 gig SD and CF cards installed. Most of my non-critical apps boot from the CF card. I have not installed any new program nor changed any settings....
I was reading through a Tribe.net discussion on the use of the word “Gypsy”, and found the following ads. Note the one for Mormon Underwear. Heh. Related Images:
