October 2007 - Posts
Last night my CA Security Suite did its automatic renewal of my annual license. I still think $50 for 3 licenses is very good value for continuous a/v, but now there is another very interesting feature: CA Web Inspector, a.k.a. CallingID It's a toolbar
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I've gone full circle. I uninstalled Google Desktop Search back in August 2006 and installed the Windows version. Yesterday, I reversed that decision. I thought that GDS' problem with archived email was bad; what a joke that was. WDS was far,
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I was offered a free year of credit monitoring a.k.a Identity Theft Protection with Equifax, so I signed up today. If you're ever going to use a super-strong password I suggest Equifax is the place. So I made up a nice strong one; mixtures of upper
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I didn't intend to post about Blog Action Day , but I had to at least respond to Daniel's 5 Practical Tips : Turn off the lights when you leave the room - Check! I program in the dark like many people. There are no lights. Turn off the computer
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A good few years ago I started another company to run some local city websites . At one point I had created a few thousand city sites and was making some decent coin from selling ads to local businesses. The idea didn't scale unfortunately - although
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This is dumb. You're *supposed* to change your password frequently, right? I changed my login password on my desktop from very weak to super strong when I went to Telligent HQ last time because I wanted to use RDC to get onto my home machine from
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Having a teenage daughter means that you text - or you don't talk to her. Maisy (and I suspect every teenage texter) suffers from acute acronymism, and brevity is an understatement. When she had a sleepover the other weekend these are the texts I
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I'm being slow to catch up on reading blogs since my recent week vacation - most I delete (unread) when they get old, but I never delete Seth's. So, today's read was Bought and Sold - and I remembered that this actually happened to me. We
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