I complained about their mishandling of my TiVo’s CableCARDs, but I can’t fault them for this. In fact, I can only thank them — profusely. Comcast has upgraded all broadband customers to 1 megabit upload (if you were on the 6/384 tier, like me), or 2 megabits (if you were on the 8/768 [...]

Over the last week, during which I have been extremely busy working with Windows night and day, I have repeatedly had the feeling that certain portions of this OS were designed by a bunch of toads.
I just did a search for some work-related files I haven’t used in a long time, because I need them [...]

So last week, as I was shaking off the last vestiges of whatever ridiculous illness I was suffering from, I did something I’d been meaning to do for a while now: I bought a 16 GB Apple iPhone.
Love it or hate it, I find that the iPhone is another example of Apple’s exemplary user interface [...]

Last week, I decided to try migrating to Windows Vista again. Yeah, yeah, save it. Anyway, after spending the last two hours trying to figure out why Apache’s mod_rewrite feature was not working, and then discovering it was the stupidest of the most stupid possible reasons, I decided to post a few “warning [...]

Check out what Reaper sent me today — a link to the daily User Friendly comic strip. It totally sums up my experience with Windows Vista, sadly enough.

You’ve probably heard of those false emails and websites that try to trick you into giving away your passwords, credit card numbers and soforth by pretending to be legitimate — a practice called phishing. McAfee has posted a ten-question “Phishing Quiz,” where you can test your knowledge and observation skills by correctly identifying 10 [...]

You experts probably beat me to the punch on this — after all, the original technique for this was first conjured up three whole years ago — but it wasn’t until today that I found out about Multiple-IE. This handy package lets you install any previous version of Internet Explorer — all the way [...]

By the end of the week, I will once again be running Windows XP.
Although it wasn’t long ago that I wrote about upgrading to Windows Vista, and how it was going pretty well so far, I’ve now had a few weeks to work with Microsoft’s new OS. Having used Vista in both a business [...]

It’s been a long time since I posted — nearly two weeks, I think. Since that just won’t do, here’s a piece about my recent experience with Microsoft’s newest operating system, Windows Vista.
Historically, I always move up to the latest edition of Windows within two weeks of its arrival. More often than not, [...]

I’ve finally retired my last CRT monitor. Today I picked up three of Samsung’s new line of widescreen LCD monitors, the 20-inch 206BW. With a native a resolution of 1680×1050, a response time of 2ms and a dynamic contrast ratio of 3000:1, these monitors are perfect for graphic design and gaming. They’re [...]