Some time ago I got quite frustrated at being unable to get an AVI of last season’s finale of Nip/Tuck burned to SVCD so I could watch in on my TV. In the end, Michelle and I ended up having to watch it in the study on our new 20″ LCD (which wasn’t that much …
If you’re lucky enough to own an LCD that rotates, an excellent freeware utility that works with this is iRotate. My 20″ ViewSonic LCD, which is fantastic, came with its own rotation software. But the latest version of it ended up causing computer to crash. I switched to iRotate, which is smaller, doesn’t have any …
Today, I got a bit of work out of Inferno and emailed an invoice as an attachment. Rather than worry about having the recipient install a couple of non-standard fonts that I use in my invoices, I decided to hunt around for a freeware PDF creator utility. I wasn’t sure if there was such a …
Michelle’s just come out of her hysterectomy surgery, and her doctor said that everything went well. I don’t have any of the actual details yet (this was all relayed to be 2nd hand by her mother Sue), but will hopefully hear all about it when I visit her after work today. I only hope that …
The last week of work before the holidays, I came down with a mild, everyday cold. When I came back to work I thought it was all over. I even bragged about how it had been a long time since I’d had such an “enjoyable” cold. (Normally, I end up with some kind of more …
The new workstation that I bought for myself was supposed to have been so that my old workstation would replace my server. I still haven’t got things to the point where this would happen. This past weekend I got to the point where I was going to migrate the server (Virgil) over to the new …
Some time ago, my new computer got infected by a virus thanks to a mistake by my wonderful wife. I thought I’d taken care of all of the side effects. Apparently, however, I hadn’t. I discovered that I wasn’t able to access Media Player’s help, or reinstall the product. (This is all because I found …