Given the latest IE security glitch, which other browser for Windows has the best features? If I switch, what should I switch to? (If you say Mozilla, remind me to go back to this article for a useful tip about loading Java). If you’re just used to IE, btw, here’s a nifty tool which allows …
Had I just gotten out of the military, I don’t think being reactivated for a war that’s increasingly unpopular would please me a great deal. Digging deeper for help in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Army is recalling to active duty about 5,600 people who recently left the service and still have a reserve obligation. What …
If you’re trying to make a layman’s sense of this week’s Supreme Court’s decisions regarding enemy combatants and their detention, you could do a lot worse than go to SCOTUSblog. Found via Talk Left. Welcome to the Middle Ages: the FDA this week granted approval to a French firm for the use of leeches to …
Having gotten all that card installation done, I was enthused. I went down to Verizon again and signed on the dotted line for DSL service (it’s a good deal now, too…$29.95/month for life). Then came the bad news: the DSL modem has to be shipped to me, and service won’t start till July 6. It’s …
I managed to get my CD drive re-installed, so it can now be read. I had to puzzle for a while as to how to cable a slave CD drive onto a secondary IDE drive, but I figured it out eventually. I plugged a PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter (D-Link DFE-530TX+) into an empty slot (after …
Here we go again. The Administration says no scientist on its payroll can talk to the World Health Organization without getting a political appointee’s approval first. “Except under very limited circumstances, U.S. government experts do not and cannot participate in WHO consultations in their individual capacity,” Steiger wrote. [Steiger is an assistant to HHS Director …
Forget all the partisan blathering about Fahrenheit 911. Just read Frank Rich’s review from a month ago. Also, if you thought the best poker game you’d ever heard of was on “The World Series of Poker” or maybe “Cincinnati Kid,” try this one, with Dick Cheney as one of the players.
From one of today’s e-mail scam letters: “Forgive my indignation if this message comes to you as a surprise and if it might offend you without your prior consent.” Right. I’ll forgive your indignation if you’ll forgive mine.
Taking Christina’s advice (see comments below), I went out and picked up an Ethernet card ($14). I forgot to pick up a can of compressed air, though, so I stopped at a different store to get one on the way back from another errand. I decided to forego the purchase when I saw that the …
I walked into Verizon’s sales office this afternoon to inquire about DSL service. I had enough presence of mind to ask how you get the DSL modem hooked up to the computer, and learned that the box needs either an Ethernet card or a USB port. Wonderful. I have neither. So now I’m faced with …