Lately, the History Channel seems to have forgotten about history. Maybe their daytime programming is still history-oriented, but their prime-time programming has become quite skewed away from historical documentaries, and has embraced the Discovery Channel model: interesting shows, but not necessarily about history.
What happened to the historical programming? The History Channel used to show enough [...]
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I seem to receive a fair amount of referrals from this MySpace profile:
http://www.myspace.com/bobby133
I’ve never met this person. Who is that?
My Netgear WGR614 v6 router had served me faithfully for about 1.5 years, but it has been acting up lately: slowing traffic significantly, dropping connections, etc. This morning, it stopped routing packets to the WAN entirely. Will it work when I get home tonight, after being turned off all day? Perhaps. And if it does, [...]
In addition to Windows Vista, we also have Microsoft Office 2007. I fired up Word, and my first thought was:
Where’s the damn menu bar?!
Hmmm. Obviously I need to play around with it more.
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We just got a new box in the house, with Windows Vista Business installed, and I’ve gotten to play around with it a bit.
First impression: Too Much.
Too much eye candy. Sure, Aero is pretty — very pretty — but there’s so much going on that it’s distracting. Visual Overload. Fortunately, there’s a so-called “Classic” theme, [...]
Since re-enabling comments, I’ve received several spam posts. There are tools available that can screen and nuke spam comments, but since basically no one reads or comments on this blog anyways, it’s not really worth my time. So, bye bye comments.