Nocturnal Slacker v2.0A brief re-hashing of some of the stuff I read the past week on my regularly visited blogs. We’ll start it off with a mention of what Nocturnal Slacker was ranting about over on his LockerGnome blogsite. Seems he was on a tear about the good and bad of Mozilla’s new Thunderbird version 3, which [...]
OK… call me a hypocrite, but I had to do it. I had to stick my head in the clouds. My first foray into cloud computing… well, sort of… is my new favorite tool, Xmarks. What is Xmarks, you ask. Well, grasshopper… let me tell you all about it. As many of you know, I [...]
Have you ever wanted an old-fashioned two-decimal place adding machine type calculator that works on your computer? Well, I have. I pay my bills and balance checkbooks and all that baloney online and on my computer. I’ve always missed the old-fashioned adding machine type calculators. I have one on my real desktop in this room, [...]
A friend sent me a link to this very interesting article about how MS investigates and tracks down software pirates. It’s a long read, but very interesting. Check it out at the New York Times – Business/Technology page –> Chasing Pirates: Inside Microsoft’s War Room by Ashlee Vance. The police reached the house undetected, barreled [...]
It ain’t new, but it’s new to me! A couple months back, when I was experiencing some health issues (read about that at Nocturnal Slacker v1.0 – Paying the Piper), I mentioned at one of my regular forums that I’d love to have a laptop one day. I thought it would be very cool to [...]
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