2005 December

I’ve already made a few fun predictions, so here are ten more serious ones:

Windows Vista is released to mediocre fanfare. “Too little, too late” will be the cry from hardcore geeks. Newbies will be just as content with Windows XP, as too many of them are still stuck on dial-up (and not broadband). Its UI [...]

Lunabean’s “The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe” Walkthrough and Strategy Guide is all you need to get through this fantastic adventure. In it you will be guided through the story mode of “Narnia” and will be provided with all Bonus Shield and Statue locations. Ad-free, easy to read, beautifully bookmarked [...]

SearchGnome is search tool for eBay auctions that enables you to manage multiple searches, compare them with older (saved) searches, add notes, and create a personal watch list. In addition, you can also run scheduled searches and be automatically notified when watched auctions are about to end. The interface is not overly attractive nor sophisticated, [...]

For a writer, their best friend is the beloved word processor that they use day in and day out to craft original content. As weird as it may seem, a symbiotic relationship of sorts begins to develop between the two. No, I’m not going crazy from staring at the computer screen for way too long [...]

Do you get this annoying message when you’re launching your email merge, address book search or email notification program or a PDA synchronization tool? “A program is trying to access email addresses you have stored in Outlook. Do you want to allow this?”
Don’t panic. This is new Outlook security features introduced in Outlook 2000 (SR2 [...]

There’s nothing quite like taking a look at your New Year’s resolutions for the year past on December 30th, only to realize that you’ve accomplished absolutely nothing on the list. For instance… did I lose weight, get in better shape, keep track of my blood pressure with that snazzy USB blood pressure monitor, and post [...]

January 2, 1785
As both readers and writers, we return to fairy tale themes again and again, gleaning new meaning from each encounter. These are stories that survived and evolved for hundreds of years. Read them again (or for the first time) and discover what makes them timeless.

Secunia Research has discovered two vulnerabilities in Pegasus Mail, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user’s system.
1) A boundary error exists when using the reply from a POP3 server to construct trace messages that are displayed to the user if an error occurs when downloading emails. This can be exploited to [...]

When Windows Automatic Updates tries to download updates on a Microsoft Windows Server 2003-based or Microsoft Windows XP-based computer, an access violation error may occur in the Esent.dll file.
This problem occurs when Windows Automatic Updates tries to start the storage engine to update the Extensible Storage Engine (ESE) database. When Windows Automatic Updates tries to [...]

I take a lot of things for granted in being forty-six years old. Things that younger generations can’t relate to.
For instance, there are billions on the Earth with no memories of man walking on the moon. I was nine when Apollo 11 took place, and it was a big impact on my life, to say [...]