Eengstro on December 28th, 2005

I reinstalled and updated McAfee VirusScan on my mom’s computer today, and made some annoying discoveries. First, the update functionality is implemented as an ActiveX control. Second, the main interface itself (the SecurityCenter) is also implemented with ActiveX controls, cleverly displayed in a disguised Internet Explorer window.
Now, am I the only one who finds it [...]

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Eengstro on December 17th, 2005

I recently had the realization that I write a lot. Of course, given the recent lack of substantive posting on this blog, one might guess that I haven’t been writing at my computer.
Actually, I’ve spent the last few years at work filling engineering notebooks (and occasionally writing code, too). I’ve kept notes on every bug [...]

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Eengstro on December 8th, 2005

I have finally made the jump and installed photo gallery software on my website! Dreamhost provides Gallery, so that’s what I went with.
Take a look at:
http://pics.eengstro.com
My first photo gallery includes a few pics of my recent trip to Hong Kong. Enjoy!

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Eengstro on December 7th, 2005

I am seeing more and more comment spam on this blog. If this continues, I will be forced to disable comments entirely.
Fucking spammers.

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Eengstro on December 6th, 2005

This is yet another reason I cannot support the Democrats:

“The idea that we are going to win this war is an idea that unfortunately is just plain wrong.” — Howard Dean, DNC chairman

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