Eengstro on March 27th, 2006

I recently installed McAfee VirusScan 2006 and Personal Firewall Plus 2006. Around this time, I discovered that my ATI video card’s control panel, Catalyst Control Center, stopped functioning: it wouldn’t even open.
It turns out that Catalyst Control Center needs access to the Internet, and Personal Firewall Plus 2006 was blocking it, apparently by default. Click [...]

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Eengstro on March 27th, 2006

“To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.” — Thomas Paine

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Eengstro on March 20th, 2006

“God is everything science has yet to explain.” —unknown

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Eengstro on March 12th, 2006

Sometimes CNN really outdoes themselves with their online polls (click for full-size):

Umm… WTF is that?

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Eengstro on March 2nd, 2006

Mark Steyn has published a well-argued editorial piece on the failures of the United Nations:

Can the U.S. force the UN to reform itself? Look at it this way: With hindsight, the UN was most effective when it was least effective—that’s to say, the four decades between Korea and the Gulf War, when the Cold War’s [...]

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