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Police Reunion at the Grammys
It was nice to see The Police on the Grammys last night. I had anticipated their appearance since I first read about it a few weeks ago. They did a good rendition of “Roxanne”. They fooled around with one of the verses to make it a bridge and it worked for the most part. “Roxanne” […]
Google Toolbar Button Plugin Updated Again
I just updated the Google Toolbar Button Plugin again. I found a flaw in the way that the plugin outputs the XML file that the toolbar uses to create the button. This flaw caused the toolbar to output an error when someone would click on your link to install your button on their toolbar. This […]
Livingston Off Base On Vista Upgrade Use
Brian Livingston wrote a very controversial article in his Windows Secrets newsletter last week. The article was titled “Get Vista upgrade, never pay full price” and discusses how you can use an upgrade version of Vista to do a clean install of Microsoft’s new version of Windows. Upgrades are meant to install over Windows XP […]
Flaw in Windows Vista Speech Recognition?
A story on Engadget discusses how a malicious website can take over your Windows Vista computer with speech recognition enabled. Also, you have to see this video on YouTube.
Fighting Comment Spam
There’s a very intelligent woman who writes a blog called geeksmakemehot.com. According to a recent post on her blog she has turned off commenting due to excessive comment spam. This kind of thing is happening a lot around the blog sphere but when some of the more intelligent bloggers are doing it I have to […]