Give Them a Fish or Teach ’em To Fish?

Dvorak asks this about One Laptop Per Child: “Does anyone but me see the OLPC XO-1 as an insulting ‘let them eat cake’ sort of message to the...

Mark Your Calendars! PDC08 Announced

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12 ways to de-commercialize the holidays

From 12 ways to de-commercialize the holidays: Yankee Swap Secret Santa Un-Secret Santa Re-gifting Pool your resources For children only Donate in...

StayAtHomeServer.com!

From Mommy, Why is There a Server in the House?: “When a mommy and a daddy love each other very much, the daddy wants to give the mommy a special...

MS Math Add-In for Word 2007

I mention this because this is just the thing I’ve wanted to be able to check my kid’s math homework: the Microsoft Math Add-In for Word 2007. For...

1 Setup == Innumerable Uninstalls?

OK, what’s the deal with installing 1 product (Visual Studio 2008 beta 2) and having to do 22 separate uninstalls?!? How is this a good thing...

Why aren’t Windows settings stored in %HOMEPATH%?

Normally, this is the kind of question I’d pose and then provide an answer, but this time I just don’t have one. If my Word settings were stored in...

I had to load FireFox on my machine yesterday

In general, IE7 more than meets my needs. It shows me the web pages I want and it works well. However, there is one killer feature that FireFox has...