I play Battlefield 2 once or twice a week. I’m not particularly good, but it’s fun to play with a squad of friends.
The latest patch introduced the “Infantry Only” option. This loads a map without vehicles. This can be fun if everyone on the server squads up. However, it’s really only appropriate for smaller [...]
I’m standing in the local Apple store, typing this entry on a MacBook. Next to me is a new “classic” iPod. The new iPods have a “clock” feature, where you can enter multiple locations, and it will display the time at each location, side-by-side.
This is a nifty feature, except for one problem: during Daylight Saving [...]
Yet another reason that Norton Internet Security sucks: When a user is logged in to Windows Vista with a “Standard user” account, the Program Control feature of Norton’s Personal Firewall will always block new or unfamiliar programs. It will also always block programs that have been updated (which, since they have changed, are treated as [...]
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Sit and admire one of the more amusing/frustrating error messages I’ve received from MySpace:
MySpace is an example of what happens when you release a half-assed, hacked together demo to the world instead of a fully-designed and tested product (i.e. something you actually thought through beforehand). You have to keep fixing it, and yet it never [...]
I was logged into my blog with IE (I usually use Firefox) when I noticed the following button at the bottom of every admin page:
This takes you to a page that declares, “Internet Explorer can make your computer unsafe. Why not switch to a browser that’s more secure?”. This button only appears when using WordPress [...]
In FireFox (and Internet Explorer 7 as well), you can open a link in a new tab by clicking on it with the scroll wheel. Similarly, you can close an open tab by scroll-wheel clicking it. (Push straight down on the scroll wheel rather than rolling it; it functions like a middle, or third, mouse [...]
I witnessed my first Windows Vista bluescreen today. The box was in the middle of being put into Sleep mode when it was awakened again, and blam: a bluescreen. (It could be said that we had a vista of a bluescreen…) Unfortunately, the bluescreen didn’t stay up long enough for me to actually read it [...]
I finally upgraded my work box to Firefox 2 today. I have to say that the Session Restore feature is pretty cool: all seven of my open tabs were reloaded (including my gmail session) without a hitch.
Of course, it would have been cooler if Firefox hadn’t crashed…