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This morning I received an email titled: "Urgent Service Notice from Regal Honda/Acura". Thinking that perhaps there was something in there regarding a recall or something, oh I dunno, "urgent" about my TSX, I opened the email.  Of course, based on the title of this post you can imagine that there wasn’t anything urgent in […]

While I am intrigued by Spore, despite the mediocre reviews, I won’t be buying it. Unfortunately, EA has decided to put really draconian DRM onto Spore.  Now, I can understand what they’re trying to do (although we all know that every single game that has ever had DRM on it has been cracked virtually immediately), […]

A few days ago I had to run one of the many Small Business Server wizards on my 2003 SBS server to repair a problem with Internet access.  As soon as I tried to run it, it came up with an error message that the wizard "can only be run on a small business server […]

I just tried to run the Zune software and it went down in flames.  I’m running a theme on my machine that makes the error message look a bit different, but I think you might see the problem here: In order to troubleshoot, I need to enter that huge URL into a browser and make […]

I was just perusing the Dell web site to get a sense of how much a high end box from them would cost (as opposed to building one myself).  While pricing things out, I noticed that the XPS series of systems come with "Windows Vista Ultimate Bonus".  Hmmm, out of the roughly 73 versions of […]

While waiting for a client’s server to finish installing something, I jumped over to the Fox news site to see what was going on.  In there, there was an article about the recent ruling that Washington D.C.’s handgun ban was unconstitutional, and the filing of a lawsuit against the city of Chicago to try to […]

Joe Healy last night apparently decided that my new nickname is crotchety bastard. Well, all I have to say to that is: "am not!" (even though my IM greeting is now "crotchety bastard".) Besides, how cute is this – our puppy cuddling with her bunny, and stuck amongst the wheels of a chair so that […]

I have a problem with keyboards.  I love trying new ones.  Over the past year I have actually been using a Logitech one pretty consistently, but I keep trying new ones to see if I can do better. My most recent adventure is with a Microsoft Wireless Keyboard 3000.  Unfortunately, I love the feel of […]

Over the past few days I’ve had the pleasure of having Vista Business Professional begin acting very strangely on my system.  This morning for example, it was incredibly slow.  So slow that just bringing up a Save dialog box in Notepad took over 15 seconds.  But when checking Task Manager, the system was pretty much […]

Tech Ed this year is split into two week long sessions.  If you’re down for the conference, you might be looking for something to do over the intervening weekend.  Joe Healy and his gang of merry pranksters is putting together the Florida Tweener weekend, which is kind of a mix between a Code Camp and […]