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My Cheap Alternative to the BlackBerry

  September 14, 2007 - 9:52 pm | Tech
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This is a follow-up to “I Want One… No I Don’t“; an article in which I vacillated aimlessly between lusting for a BlackBerry and denying the obvious attraction. In hindsight, perhaps a bit pitiful to read.  After calming down and spending time on proper reflection I can say that I … Continue reading →

Tagged BlackBerry, cellphone, google-apps, SMS

Finding Uptime for Windows

  September 9, 2007 - 4:36 pm | Tech
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I’ve been happily using my little Pentium 2 Windows 2000 experiment for the past week and am happy to say it is working quite well.  About the only real tweaking I’ve done so far is to drop a custom Firefox build onto it. I suppose I should plan to run … Continue reading →

Tagged microsoft, tweak, uptime, Windows

How-to: Another Way to Exclude Posts From the Front Page

  September 8, 2007 - 8:36 pm | Tech
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Over at WordPress support, it isn’t all that unusual to see folks wondering how to exclude certain posts from their front page. I typically suggest they grab a “category excluder” plugin[1] and add the posts they don’t want to see to a certain category. The question came up again today, … Continue reading →

Tagged blog, category, support, tip, WordPress

Wiki Musing

  September 4, 2007 - 9:04 pm | Tech
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A month ago I settled on new Wiki software for the office. I’ve been pretty happy with Perspective as my choice, but I have to confess I’m about the only one using it. I think the rest of the office is a bit gun-shy after the disastrous loss of the … Continue reading →

Tagged google-apps, google-wiki, jotspot, Perspective, wiki

Tip: Tracking Down That Wiley Svchost Process

  August 28, 2007 - 9:12 pm | Tech
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Sometimes the computer seems pretty slow. You fire up Task Manager and a quick glance shows the CPU running at 100%! Flip to the Process tab, click on the CPU column heading (to sort) and see that svchost.exe is using all the cycles. Traditionally, that’s when I’d say, “oh crap.” … Continue reading →

Tagged microsoft, process, services, svchost, sysinternals, Windows
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