The Field Ration Eating Device, or “FRED” for short.
DaleFirst introduced to these back in the late 1980's. Such a handy little camping tool. It's a combination spoon, bottle and can opener. Yes, it does take a bit of…
The Bestest Christmas Card.
Was this handmade effort that a friend’s partner made. People in the office often admire the craftsmanship of her cards.
The things you see – wipe-on sex appeal …
Airport men’s toilets are interesting places. You get to see and be offered all sorts of products, from “glow in the dark” condoms to toothbrushes. The shaving kits you used…
Where did the blog go?
On a holiday courtesy of my previous hosting company. If you notice some differences, that’s why. My former web hosting company suddenly decided to enforce a bandwidth limit without telling…
How to determine why a user has failed to logon
By looking at the Security Event Log, and Event ID 529 In the above example, the user tried to logon to the computer while it was disconnected from the network. …
Kubler-Ross’ Phases of Grief
You might have heard of the five stages of grief. It’s a model devised by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross. It doesn’t apply in all instances of loss and grief, but it’s a…
Some quotes on grief
“Grief, I think, is not something you get over. I think, instead it’s something you travel through. And now I’ve travelled to the other side, I won’t forget the journey.”…
Using VBScript to read though a set of registry keys
I’m currently doing another deployment of Acrobat Reader, this time with VBScript. I wrote about using Visual Basic to do that here. Function CheckForPro ' returns TRUE if Acrobat…
15 Password Managers
You might have seen this cartoon here before, but it’s worth repeating, as it’s that time of month. Some organisations require passwords that are longer than the 12 digit codes…
File searching with Agent Ransack
Back in October 2006, I wrote that I used Copernic and Google Desktop. Search Time has moved on and now I use Agent Ransack. Google stopped supporting Desktop Search in…