Just tired and incredibly frustrated. Last week a my computer’s CPU fan failed, and this led to a number of other unfortunate events, including a complete corruption of Windows. So I am reinstalling everything from scratch and nothing is working. None of my printers will install and the sound card is pretending to be dead–in [...]

Oh goodie. I’m drowning in client work, and I get to spend the day troubleshooting instead of working.
Update: Apparently, there are some known issues with Zone Alarm and it’s stupid antivirus bundling, which even though I don’t use, still borks up your system. This is my reward for upgrading?
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Contemplating attending [...]

For Anne. I *heart* Ubuntu.

If you are getting messages to install something and all these crazy windows popping up, it’s not me, it’s a trojan. DON’T install anything. I am frantically calling my host right now…I think I’ve been hacked.
Update: The problem would appear to be the .wmf exploit. Here’s five facts about it, a little tool that checks [...]

From Scot’s Newsletter:
“Fair warning to all you dyed-in-the-wool Windows wonks: I’m having visions of jumping ship…if it stops being fun using Windows (if it feels like the taxi meter is running all the time, for example), I might switch. Microsoft appears to be bound and determined to wipe the grins off our faces, to take [...]

One of the first things I bought for the new computer was a tape deck. It’s pretty damn cool. But wow–check this out: the world’s first USB turntable. Now that’s old school.
Amazon has it. Kind of tempting…
And hey, remember way back when when I wondered aloud if there was any kind of book trading network [...]