Many things make my head spin around like Linda Blair in The Exorcist.  The only thing I’m missing is the ability to shoot pea soup while I’m rotating. Today there were only a few things that created this effect but it’s still early. I tried to purchase a soda from the machine whi...

McAfee My first enterprise antivirus experience was McAfee.  We’re talking probably late 1980’s and there was nobody at the company interested in viruses so I figured I’d take a look.  I managed to clean an infection and decided we needed a corporate antivirus and policy, thus Mc...

As you no doubt have read, I’m having hard drive problems with my laptop.  It’s not so much a problem as a total failure but sometimes we like to stay optimistic (or use Classic British Understatement<tm>, even though I’m not British). The hard drive continued to sit the...

Two weeks ago a ball joint failed catastrophically in my car, taking out everything within a one foot radius of it.  I suspect it overheard my wife talking about having a few spare dollars.  It cost `only’ eight hundred dollars to remove it from the shop. A week ago, my wife heard some squea...

I just got in from a band audition.  I don’t do this often; in fact, this is my third audition in many many years.  I have been playing the guitar for something like thirty years (God I’m old) and auditioning for almost that long. I was a very good student when I started playing.  Thi...

As I mentioned in yesterday’s post about the local tumult and a hundred square feet of bloody paw printed carpet, the cat injured himself yesterday.   When I last wrote, he was stationed on his own personal fluffy towel on the kitchen floor (blood comes off lineoleum better than carp...

I don’t think I caught on to the fact that today was an unqualified disaster til I was most of the way through it.  In spite of the miserable weather (Precipitation Wednesdays), things didn’t look all that horrible.  I should have known, though… things were going along too well.Â...

I joked recently about my car breaking.  You see, if my car somehow senses that I have a few disposable dollars, it will break, eating up every last disposable dollar.  Sometimes my wife’s car gets jealous when this happens so it breaks, costing even more. My wife will tell me that I should neve...

Did you ever have one of those years? 2008 wasn’t so hot.  2009 hasn’t exactly started off too well either. My equipment is after me again.  Maybe the equipment is a proxy for the universe.  Something is out to get me and appears to be doing so via computers. Let’s start off wit...

I work for a non-profit.  Because of our mission, I always do my best to save money, even when others don’t.  Toward this end, I have recommended Open Office instead of Microsoft Office.  They’re compatible and Open Office is free.  Microsoft definitely offers a seductive charity rat...