January 26, 2010 – 3:02 pm
note: for part one of this post, go here
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I finally did it. I took the plunge and reformatted my computer. I had MEANT to do it two weeks ago, but well, you know… life happens. As I’ve mentioned before, reformatting a computer means a time commitment — if you want to be able to be [...]
January 5, 2010 – 2:21 pm
I use my computer hard. Daily use includes the obvious email, browser, word processer, and music player programs, of course, but also programs such as those used for image, sound, and video editing, site-updating, time-tracking, finance-tracking, etc. Many of these programs are resource-hungry, and I surely have programs installed that I no longer use or [...]
October 6, 2009 – 1:12 pm
A little over a year ago, my desktop computer started acting a little… “funny.” It was sluggish, and was exhibiting some strange behavior.
I was… distracted. I should have reacted sooner to assure myself that all my important files were backed up. When I finally did, I did a really bonehead thing and wiped out my [...]
September 22, 2009 – 2:07 pm
Just a short Tuesday Tech this week, folks. Short, but fun!
A while back (a while being several years, I think) I heard about this internet service which would allow you to write an email to yourself to be delivered at some future date of your choice. I thought it sounded cool, but never checked it [...]
September 8, 2009 – 11:18 am
Take a long holiday weekend, combine it with being home with a preschooler and infant twins all weekend with a husband off working, and you have a recipe for several days of I-don’t-have-time-to-read-my-tech-blogs.
Mix in an insidious worm making its rounds and infecting self-hosted WordPress installations, and you’ve got me, right now, steaming mad at spammers, [...]