Month: June 2006

  • Patching catch 22

    Prime example last week of why patching is sometimes a whole lot more complicated than it seems to be from the outside. Tuesday was patch day. For many of us in the Eastern Time Zone, who set Automatic Updates to pick up patches overnight, it’s really Wednesday for all intents and purposes. So Weds. would…

  • It Figures

    Yesterday was Nature Photography Day, and between a full work day and an evening meeting over at the library, I was in the midst of the concrete jungle downtown. (OK so Columbus isn’t exactly the concrete jungle, but there’s not much in the way of nature to get photos of downtown.) On the positive side…

  • On-line applications

    I think this post pretty much sums out why using on-line apllications makes me nervous, even though I do use quite a few, but I take careful steps to make sure I have backups of everything that’s on-line and don’t share anything with an on-line application that I wouldn’t want you all to know about….

  • Stupid mobile users

    I actually meant to post this earlier in the week, then forgot all about it until tonight. Tuesday night, upon our return to Port Columbus airport, I had to make a quick stop at the men’s room on the way to baggage claim. I no sooner than had stepped inside the doorway of the men’s…

  • More syncing Firefox across computers

    Looks like Google is getting into the Firefox extension that lets you keep your bookmarks, settings, cookies, etc. synchronized across computers. The only difference here is that your information is kept on Google’s servers, encrypted of course so that only you would have the key to access it. I’m not sure I like the idea…