Monthly Archives: September 2008
Windows Vista help sites: My short list
With my new Toshiba Satellite A205-S4577 laptop last year came a new operating system for me as well: Windows Vista. Do I like it? Yes! Do I love it! I’d have to give it a qualified yes. This isn’t an in-depth review, but I have a few observations along with some great links for Vista [...]
Tagged? Do not respond!
If you receive an e-mail stating, “So-and-so has tagged you!”, delete it. Tagged.com is nasty business, primarily targeting teens, but pulling in thousands with invitation e-mails that play on peoples’ guilt feelings. The gist of it is, Tagged.com perpetuates itself by masquerading as a legitimate social networking site. Oh, I know, they have a privacy [...]
Gearing up for some downtime
Downtime. What a loaded word that can be. If you’re a business owner, downtime isn’t a good thing, though it’s expected. If you’re looking forward to getting away from your responsibilities and enjoying a vacation, downtime’s as desireable as it is illusive. We’re in the second camp, looking forward to vacation. It’s time for the [...]
Married to the Sea
I just love Married to the Sea, yet another site where you can lose yourself for hours and roar aloud with laughter.* It’s the kind of stuff I used to do when I’d clip ads and pictures out of magazines and write captions on them. The site’s creators, Drew and Natalie Dee, must have an [...]
Deciphering Google sets
The last few days, I’ve been messing around with an application over in Google Labs, called Google Sets. What it does is look at a short list of search terms you’ve entered and spit back a list of its own predictions as to what else belongs in that set. It’s harder to explain than to [...]
Best office prank. Ever.
None of the offices I worked in did crazy stuff like fill peoples’ workspaces with packing peanuts, balloons, or ping pong balls. Nor has anyone wrapped the contents of someone’s office in aluminum foil. My boss at Caribou used to enjoy asking new hires to get the toolbox out of the basement for her. The [...]
