I really couldn’t believe it when I read this article on PC Pro. The article said: The three-app rule includes applications running in the background, meaning that a user running Windows Messenger and Skype, for example, could only use one further application on their machine. Antivirus software is excluded from the app count. Microsoft says […]
There are times when good ideas should just be left alone. When you try to implement that idea, especially into law, it often becomes a bad idea. For example: check out the proposed law that South Carolina is considering. Here’s a short snip: SECTION 1. Article 3, Chapter 15, Title 16 of the 1976 Code […]
I read today a short quote from Oscar Wilde: , “A school should be the most beautiful place in every town and village – so beautiful that the punishments for undutiful children should be that they should be debarred from going to school the following day.” I checked to see that he’d said it and […]
Well, finally the campaigning is over and it has been one of the longest bitterest campaigns I’ve seen in my lifetime. Towards the end, well, lets just say the Republican candidates were getting ridiculously negative. About they only thing they didn’t claim is that Obama’s mother wore army boots and his dog was ugly — […]
As I was deleting my spam today — well yesterday and the day before too. I got to thinking about the spammer that finally got arrested and went to trial in Virginia. They let him go because the judge didn’t think it was fair, the law was too broad, and so on and so on. […]
According to a Scientific American article from September 12, 2008: In fact, oil companies have yet to take advantage of the nearly 86 billion barrels of offshore oil in areas already available for leasing and development. So why are they chomping at the drill bit to open up the moratorium waters and survey them anew? […]
Okay, finally the new external disk drive arrived. Thankfully, it got here before everything blew up. When it arrived I had only 1 GB of space left — everything was sooooo slow I was growing moss on my mouse. But, once I got it plugged in and moved all the photos and electronic books to […]
I get spam. I get lots of spam. Spam, spam, not beautiful spam. And it’s too bad because the real spam, the kind that comes in a can, isn’t bad. When I was a poor struggling student, I ate spam a lot (and not the script for the play either). I had spam sandwiches, spam […]