Today is a red letter date in operating system history. Windows XP is by pretty much any measure the most successful home computing operating system, and today the final set of security updates and patches for it were pushed down. Extended support is finally over, and now Windows XP is released into the void of unsupported software even though by ( Read more... )

Eliza Rickman has played not one but two different house concerts in my living room. She also is the only musician to play a song on my radio show. Put that all together, and supporting her Kickstarter to fund her new music video was a no brainer. I went in for $100 and was rewarded with this most excellent video for "Starts With Goodbye, Stops ( Read more... )

Is there really any fundamental difference between Photobucket and Flickr or whatever other photo sharing site that you recommend?

I had to make a call to a tech support number tonight. At one point they wanted to confirm my ID by asking my security question, which was "who was your childhood best friend?" I got it WRONG. Twice. My third try was also wrong and they politely disconnected me. Apparently, my childhood memories are completely bogus. It appears the security ( Read more... )

Microsoft Hearts won't let you play a point card on the very first hand. If you try to do that it firmly notifies you that you can't play a point card that hand. As I'm sure most of you know, in Hearts a point card is any heart, or the Queen of Spades. That particular rule is just a variant that I'd never heard of until I first played Microsoft ( Read more... )

I saw this in a random comment someone left for theferrett. I will say only that Lovecraft has never been pastiched like this before. Oh my.

A very long but quite awesome political ad utilizing a sequence from one of my favorite comics, courtesy of the lovely KF, who just turned 7 on Leap Day. I should buy her a coloring book or something.

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My friend/coworker/DM Rob (who should really start posting more) and I are both on the mailing list for the promotional emails for a certain ( Read more... )

I think that Walk Score is really cool. I don't know that it's necessarily accurate, as it gave my residence a score in the high 70s, even though many of the stores they mention are [a] the only one of their type in walking distance [b] don't necessarily sell essential items of that type. But it's still cool ( Read more... )

Successfully installed Apache & PHP on my Windows XP laptop tonight. Let the wacky hijinks ensue! I also got mySQL running for a while, but realized that I'd installed it with a bunch of options not compatible with my needs, so I took it off. Later, I'm sure ( Read more... )

CStatusBar is a fun little class. I highly recommend it. 225(pw).

Gieves and Darlox have succeeded in making me feel old. But just this once, I approve. Congratulations on the whole engagement thing ( Read more... )