Category Archives: Annoyances

F***ing Crackers

I found out two nights ago that I had a trojan (or more than one) installed on my Windows 7 desktop computer.  I have no idea how or when it got there but it was there nonetheless.   My machine … Continue reading

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You’d have think they would have learned by now…

The Apple “press” (I use quotes because they really aren’t but sure seem like they’d like to be) never ceases to amaze me.  What passes for two stories on The Unofficial Apple Weblog today: A story titled ‘Apple’s “renaissance” is … Continue reading

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How Not to Get Your Blog Hacked: opinion 2

There has been a lot of noise out there in the last week regarding the recent attacks against various high profile WordPress blogs that were not updated.  John Gruber over at Daring Fireball has jumped into the fray with some … Continue reading

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Google Calendar and external iCal feeds – DOA

I’ve been mucking around with adding my Remember the Milk lists as iCal event feeds to my Google Calendar account.  The idea of having tasks with due dates show up like “local” GCal events is great but it doesn’t work … Continue reading

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Wow. Twitter spam is something else

Ever since posting links on Twitter to things I’ve written here the amount of comment/trackback spam I’m receiving has exploded.   Luckily WordPress has great spam filtering.

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Google Calendar…um…features?

While messing with a Google Apps setup I have created for my volunteer group I found some interesting things about entering events. Not sure they’re features given the circumstances but they’re interesting nonetheless. First of all, I selected 1pm to … Continue reading

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“Learnings” is not a word!!!!

I keep coming across people using “learnings” as a word in documents. Here is an example (scroll down to the bottom and you’ll spot it). Just a note for the incompetent: “learnings” is not a word. Go look it up … Continue reading

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