Powdered wombat guts and other sources of feelings of wellbeing
Posted in Misc on Apr 29th, 2008
Today I rediscovered Microsoft OneNote. I had tried it before, back when I was looking for something to help me implement David Allen’s Getting Things Done (GTD) approach to staying organized. OneNote was a nice application but for what I wanted I preferred MyLifeOrganized.
Posted in Misc on Apr 24th, 2008
If you install Ubuntu 8.04 on a system with an ATEN CS1734B switch it may be worth connecting the monitor directly during the installation.
Posted in Misc on Apr 22nd, 2008
Today I discovered a delightful little gadget that does a small job beautifully. It’s WebGuide, shown at the bottom in the image to the right.
What it does: among other things, it lists pending recordings for Vista Media Center; no need to fire up Media Center. In any case, I never found a way to do [...]
Posted in Misc on Apr 19th, 2008
Vista Service Pack 1 finally showed up in my Windows Update.
I have had some fun with Vista lately. My C: drive was approaching capacity and Vista told me that I couldn’t extend it. I succeeded in the end but it was unreasonably difficult. Vista makes simple things needlessly complicated, like keeping your software and data [...]
Posted in Misc on Apr 12th, 2008
There has been a lot of chatter on the net lately about Gartner saying that Microsoft Windows is collapsing under its own weight. Elsewhere there are claims that this is why it’s desperate to buy Yahoo. Windows and Office are the cash cows and they are looking vulnerable, supposedly.
I suspect that the end is not [...]
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Powdered wombat guts and other sources of feelings of wellbeing
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