Category Archives: Computers and Internet

I complain so often about poor customer service that I thought it would be worth it to call out a company that takes servicing their customers seriously.  On June 20th I ordered a new Thinkpad T60 from Lenovo, with some very high end specs.  It shipped on June 22nd from Hong Kong and was at […]

I’ve been experimenting with subscription music services.  A while ago I started with Rhapsody, and while I despised their darn application (why not just be an add in in Windows Media Player?!), I enjoyed their service.  Unfortunately, after I converted to Windows Vista (super duper edition), I discovered that Rhapsody didn’t work with Vista.   […]

I’m pretty sure I’m not normal.  This Hitachi, um, demo of perpendicular storage technology appeals to me…   Enjoy the show, and make sure you can hear the song!

You know how you’re told that if you can’t say anything nice, don’t say anything at all?   Notice how quite the blog has been this week after a burst of blogging last week?   Notice how I’m not saying anything about Microsoft right now?   That’s all I’m saying for now (glances over at […]

Even if your PC running Microsoft Media Center Edition was fully patched for the daylight savings time change, there is a problem effecting many people where shows that were scheduled to be recorded did not correctly change their record start and stop times.   Thus many people, including myself, have had shows missed.  I’m quite […]

As everyone nows, the dates that daylight savings time changes have changed.   Cingular, who is my carrier, sent me a sms text message about the fix needed for my 8125 phone.  I installed the update last week with no problem on both of our 8125’s.   This morning, while all of our PC’s and […]

This evening I had to get a copy of Infopath 2007 on a notebook to run a toolkit that MS provides.   Unfortunately I used a key that had been used before, and activation was rejected.  It was a simple mistake, and it turns out, easily corrected.   Rather than uninstalling and reinstalling using the […]

While many businesses are not planning on upgrading to Microsoft Windows Vista right away, there are certain circumstances where a smaller business may be "forced" to move more quickly than they might normally choose.   In our case, our business, TLA Technologies, Inc. needs to make sure that we’re ahead of our customer’s needs.  So […]

I have a bit of a "thing" for keyboards (they are afterall your main interface with your computer!).  Over the past five years, I’ve probably owned 10 different types of keyboards from several different manufacturers.   Recently I’ve been using the Microsoft Wireless Laser Keyboard 6000 v2.0 with its matching Laser Mouse 6000.   The […]

Recently, I had the pleasure of taking a training class on SharePoint 2007 offered by Ted Pattison.  If you look at the About page on his site, you’ll see that Ted has been in the computer business forever and has been doing training for more than 10 years.  While I was in his class, I […]