Windows 7: Update Install Deja Vu

Updated: See solution at the end

Check out this update install history picture:

I seem to be in a bit of a rut… I’ve installed “Security Update for Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1” many many times! Oddly enough, I’m not sure why yet.

I get notified that I need to install the update:

I install the

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Google Reader in Netvibes – Solved (again)

A year ago I wrote up one way to get Google Reader integrated with Netvibes. That method worked well enough, but it was a bit awkward.

Two things have happened since then: Netvibes has continued to improve and Google Reader has an iPhone mobile interface (pointed out by TedHead in a comment from February of this

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iPod Shuffle (3rd Gen)

I picked up a new little gadget this week. I have to confess, I was seduced by how it looked on the shelf. Yup, I now own my first iPod – an iPod Shuffle 4GB (3rd generation to be precise.)

I’ve only had it a few days so just a few thoughts to share. For

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In Which I Finally Discover Clonezilla and GParted

One of the older home laptops finally died yesterday. Not totally unexpected, she’d been ailing for a while but she finally had to be put down.

* moment of silence, please *

The hard drive in that laptop was a 7200 RPM drive so I decided that it would be a nice upgrade on this Dell D600

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Minor 64 bit Rant

I just have to get this off my chest: Why the bloody h*ll is 64 bit computing so much easier with Windows than it is with Linux? How could such a thing be?!?

Seriously. Heck, I’m a Linux advocate in most scenarios, but this stuff just makes me feel stupid.

I have a home machine dual-booting Ubuntu

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