As I’m temporarily on OS X while my laptop is being repaired, I run into one of my OS X gripes, which is that Command-M does something deeply useless: it minimizes the current window, with no way to undo the action with the keyboard (that I know of).
This is a real problem when using [...]

Last week, the motherboard on my trusty and much-lugged Dell laptop was replaced to fix the power management problems. Today, the hard drive died an ugly-sounding death. I have no idea what data I lost, but it can’t be too much: my email is all stored on servers, my bookmarks are stored on [...]

Just poking around shutterbook, and trying out the uploader, I find that the installer for the uploader lists Python & Tk/Tcl DLLs as part of its payload. They’re everywhere!

As part of my job, my name gets listed on the corporate website. As a result, I end up with a fair share of spam, and spam-like phone calls. I just got off the phone with someone pitching me backup storage software. To save everyone time, I tend to cut off those [...]