May 26
Just announced: Speaking at Make Web Not War 09 in Vancouver
Just announced (though it’s not on the site yet) I’ll be speaking at the Make Web Not War 09 conference in Vancouver on June 2nd. The topic of my session will (not surprisingly) be how to harnes the power of WordPress through the use of Expression Web 2. It’s a 1 hour session and right [...]
May 25
10 reasons you’ll love Windows 7, part two: The Taskbar
The Windows taskbar was introduced with Windows 95 and has functioned as a launching application as well as a place to store and access minimized or hidden windows. But through all it’s following iterations it never really changed. Meanwhile other OS developers were introducing fancy new features like application docking and taskbar customization and Windows [...]
May 22
10 reasons you’ll love Windows 7, part one: It just works!
I’ve been using Windows 7, first in Beta and now in Release Candidate, since early March or so. And I am thorroughly impressed. I was never a Vista hater – and I think most Vista haters either never actually tried Vista or refused to accept that Vista and XP were not the same thing – [...]
May 20
Without Hardware Virtualization Sony Vaio Laptops Do Not Perform to Spec!
For the last 8 months I’ve been working almsot exclusively off my Sony Vaio SR140D – the laptop I purchased with the revenue from my book. And until recently I have had nothing but good things to say about it. That was until I needed to run a virtual OS on it. Turns out that [...]
