I know I have been not posting a whole bunch recently, mainly cause I have been fairly busy with work. Pretty sure given the current state of the economy, that is a pretty good thing. This post will probably be a winding one with lots of little thoughts in it. I am writing it while … more …

So this week at work we did an update on the website using some new approaches for us. Not new technology, just new for our work flow. Today (Thursday August 20, 2009) I figured I should check the site on a Windows Vista machine. After I checked it on Vista using Internet Explorer 7, I … more …

So this one is about how the changes as software advances is not always better. I am working on a presentation I am giving on Tuesday evening. I am using Microsoft Power Point 2007 on my work Windows machine. I prefer when giving a presentation to not have all the text on the screen, people … more …

I finally had enough little things that are not available for Mac so I decided to go to BootCamp and VMWare Fusion to be able to run Windows XP Pro SP2 either by booting into it or running a virtualization. The funniest part of the process for me was when I did the Windows Update … more …

Well after a few years running nothing but open source stuff, Open Office, Thunderbird, FileZilla, and Firefox to name a few applications, I finally decided that I had enough of the little glitches.
The final straw that broke the camel’s back was the frequency with which I was needing to rebuild the Thunderbird Mail client’s data … more …