Daylight savings ends for another year …
Dale… and I suspect today is going to be a busy day. Back in the day, when I was working with mainframes, we would have to “stop” the mainframe at…
“I hear Billy Graham is staying in this hotel.”
But some years ago, I was on an elevator in Philadelphia, coming down. I was to address a conference at a hotel. And on that elevator a man said "I…
You leave comments in your programming code for others, not for yourself.
Subtitles: The past is another country, they did things differently there. After a period of time, you become the “other” for in “comments for others”. I’ve just spent two days…
“And that’s how all internet communities should run.”
People have this bizarre desire of freedom of speech in (internet) communities. They mix freedom of speech with freedom of harassing, or freedom to disturb. And that’s really two different…
What coffee drink is that?
How to make coffee , which is not a post about how to make coffee as such, but rather, how good this sign is: (Steve Clayton, Geek In Disguise MSDN…
Automatic Teller Machine (ATM) Card Skimming photos
There has been a bit of exposure in the news recently, of Automatic Teller Machine fraud. Aka Card Skimming and PIN capturing. Up to 1,000,000 dollars has been obtained by…
But never, never let them persuade you that things are too difficult or impossible.
Good luck, old lad. Don't listen to anyone who tells you that you can't do this or that. That's nonsense. Make up your mind, you'll never use crutches or a…
LastPass does form filling!
It was an article from Jesper Johansson* which finally got me using LastPass as a password manager. I use LastPass* for most of my web logons. This is why: each…
Straying from the path …
Straying from the path is straying into unknown lands. So true in many things, but in this particular case, Zeke Odins-Lucas was talking about how to call shlwapi, in his…
Week of Motorcycling – The Rejects
One reader said, “Week of Motorcycling. How long is that post series going to last …” These were the one’s I didn’t use as none of the things in the…