Follow-up to yesterday’s Musing
This morning, my colleague shared the following news story: KRXQ Sacramento Radio Hosts Encourage Violence Against Transgender Children […] The hosts, Rob Wil...
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Thanks, jesse Liberty
I’ve been skimming books on C# as I prepare to learn a new language. As I was starting to read O’Reilly’s Programming C# 3.0, 5th Edition, I saw aut...
New Yorker cover on iPhone app
I’m not a huge iPhone (or Apple) fan, but this is very cool: Cover Story: Finger Painting Jorge Colombo drew this week’s cover using Brushes, an applica...
Changing Boot drive with BCDBoot
Scott Hanselman is a consistently good source of useful info and commentary. Recently, he needed to change which drive his computer used as its System drive, wh...
Pandora Windows Gadget
If you enjoy Pandora’s online music service, and you’re using Vista or Windows 7, you might enjoy the Pandora Gadget. I find it convenient because I don’t...
Elevated ShellRunAs
Back in the day, I was a good Windows admin and did my administration using the Windows Server admin tools from my workstation, logged in with a non-admin user,...
Firefox for Windows Mobile
LifeHaker reports that an early development release of Fennec, the mobile version of Firefox, has been made available. This is alpha software (beware).
VirtualEdit in Vim
I really like vim, and here’s yet another reason. I can transpose columns in a text table, using visual block mode. As a quick example, let’s say I ...
Recalcitrant Vista SP1 install
I have spent a number of hours troubleshooting the installation of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 on a particular Dell Optiplex 755, but I finally succeeded. Symp...
securing wordpress
I finally found some info about getting current verions of WordPress to use SSL for Logins and wp-admin. I have enabled the settings on both my blogs, and it ap...