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Verizon customer service may suck most horribly, but FiOS rocks my world.  See picture for all the details you need…

I got a certificate this morning celebrating my 10 years as a member of Mensa.  I took the test as a lark on day (a former employer of mine had been bugging me to do it long before I actually did it) and a few weeks later found out that I qualified. The sad thing […]

Just before the holidays I decided to try out a Zune 80.  The new Zunes are getting pretty good reviews, and I decided that I would try one out so I could get all my .wma music onto the system from my media center PC that died on me.  Yes, I know I can convert […]

Over the past month I’ve had two client sites have problems with Verizon service.  The number of hoops they make you jump through in order to try to solve a problem are incredible. In the most recent instance, the client called to say that no one there can get onto the Internet.  I walked them […]

Grrr, for about the 40th time today an application that was supposed to be doing something in the background stole focus. In this latest instance, I was loading QuickBooks in the background while working with Outlook.  As soon as QuickBooks prompted for a password, the password window stole the focus from Outlook! A while ago […]

Deborah   says:– first we need to go to the beach  Deborah   says:– then we need a giant gingerbread manDeborah   says:– and a towel that looks like a baking panEric G. Harrison says:– In order to have a day at the beach, we must first invent the universe.Deborah   says:– "bang"

There are frequent times when I need to get a full path and file name from Windows Explorer into something else. Fortunately Vista has a "hidden" feature built in to make that easier. For example, earlier today I had to point to a Virtual PC hard disk image that I had downloaded when setting up […]

I’ve lived through so many of these things. <sigh> The 11th reason is that if you’re sitting at the front desk doing something to the computer, anyone who walks in the door assumes you are the receptionist. It’s funny, when I was CIO at a 550 person company and then Director of Technology at a […]

A few days ago, shortly after replacing the hard drive in my notebook (upgraded to 200gig at 7200 RPM, woohoo!) Word 2007 no longer worked well for me.  The first symptom I noticed was that when I clicked on the X in the upper right of the window to close the app, it would crash […]

Two features that I’d really like to see: 1) Notification email when someone posts a reply to a blog posting.  I’ve missed responding in a timely manner to the last two people to reply to my blog.  Sorry Joe and Jeff! 2) The feature in Live Spaces that adds grammatical and spelling errors to my […]