It took a while for my shipment to get across the Canada/US border, because Friday was a Canadian holiday, and Monday was an American holiday; but my new Dell Dimension 3000 finally arrived! It’ll take a while for me to install my software, and restore what data I have; but I’m back.
I predict that Brazil will beat Argentina 3-2 in the Confederations Cup final tomorrow.
Get this. I got a voice message today regarding my laptop, “Your laptop needs a new motherboard, which will cost $500 (CAD) plus tax (15%).” I haven’t called them back; so I don’t know if that is in addition to the $100 labour charge (probably is). In total, that would be $690 CAD. As I [...]
This computer virus I got looks to be more than a software problem. It also looks like I’m not going to be able to retrieve my info. I’m not going to get my laptop back for at least a week. Till then, my ‘online time’ will be much less.
Well, it a appears I got a computer virus. I don’t exactly know how. F-Prot detected a few files in my Java Plugin cache last night, but the service person took one look at Limewire, and suspected that. So, my laptop is out gone to be serviced for the next while, with no guarantee I’ll [...]
Google Groups Help: What’s good ‘netiquette’ when posting to Usenet? When you click “Reply” under “show options” to follow up an existing article, Google Groups includes the full article in quotes, with the cursor at the top of the article. Tempting though it is to just start typing your message, please STOP and do two [...]
You scored as Darth Vader. Darth Vader 69% Anakin Skywalker 67% R2-D2 64% Mace Windu 58% C-3PO 56% General Grievous 56% Chewbacca 53% Yoda 53% Emperor Palpatine 50% Clone Trooper 44% Padme Amidala 42% Obi Wan Kenobi 36% Which Revenge of the Sith Character are you? created with QuizFarm.com
I while ago, I noticed that Google Groups‘ new Beta system does not display full email addresses. Seeing as Google is probably the most popular usenet archival engine, and thus the main source of email address harvesting for spammers, I wondered how much affect the new system had on spam. For the past week, I [...]
For audio bloggers everywhere; please listen to Maciej Ceglowski‘s, Audioblogging Manifesto. I have at times considered doing an audio post, but now remember why I never choose to. It never seems to fall in line with my first blog post.
You’ve seen how many forums there are for Mozilla and Netscape, right? Including developer forums, there’s no way a normal human being can keep up, let alone participate. And so, I’m going on a forum diet. Most notably, I’m no longer participating in netscape.mozilla.user.win32. I don’t have the time to participate in netscape.public.general, or alt.netscape. [...]