2006 February

I actually attained the third Xbox 360 from the TextPayMe promotion the other day, but didn’t have much time to write about it. As of this moment, I’m 9 referrals away from winning my fourth free Xbox 360. I’d like to believe that there are nine of you out there who have not yet signed [...]

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Try 5 Spots: The world’s favourite spot-the-difference game!
This cleverly executed game offers so much more than expected, with a friendly interface, beautiful and original images, and surprising details.
The icing on the cake is that the errors are randomly selected, ensuring that it is never the same game twice.
Prepare yourself to be addicted [...]

When the Internet first began to gain momentum, most of us only had one account, and that was an e-mail address. As time has passed, our e-mail addresses have become more important than our phone numbers, but they’re not the only accounts that we maintain. An explosion of Web services has taken place, and it’s [...]

I’m getting the message “This file does not have a program associated with it for performing this action. Create an association in the folders options control panel.” when I attempt to open a PPS attachment in Outlook Express. What’s that all mean, and what do I do?
Well, in short it means that Outlook Express doesn’t [...]

65 million years ago, the Chicxulub meteor crashed into the sea near the Yucatan Peninsula, ending the reign of the dinosaurs and the lives of most of the species then living on Earth. Fossil types change so radically that the impact marks the end of that period of Earth history called the Cretaceous and the [...]

When you shut down XP, it attempts to end all tasks that are currently running. If a task does not respond nor shuts down, XP will wait a specific amount of time before forcing the task to end. This time frame is referred to as the timeout. If you do not want XP to wait [...]

The Office 12 system release has been formally named “Office 2007″ by Microsoft. I’m running Beta 1 software and it’s quite interesting and looks like some great changes. The new Outlook is terrific in design. I can’t say anything (per NDA) on the server side of things, but prepare to be wowed.
Anyhow, here is a [...]

March
Saint Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland, is credited with bringing Christianity to Ireland in the A.D. 400s. Born in Britain, Saint Patrick first arrived in Ireland as a slave. After six years of slavery, he escaped to France where he studied for the priesthood. In 432, he returned to Ireland, this time as a [...]

Breast cancer continues to be a scourge that kills 40,000 women AND men each year. Families are crushed when someone, often in the prime of life, succumbs to this horrible disease.
One of the organizations that is helping to find a cure is Breast Cancer 3-Day. Here’s its mission:
Thousands of women and men will unite in [...]