Archive February 2002
My New Sound Board
There's a new sidebar link underneath my boob. Er, underneath the link to my live or not-so-live television screen capture. My Sound Board was made in Flash. I wanted to use SWiSH to tweak it, but that didn't work out too well and I ran out of time yesterday. Yes, I'm still avoiding work. Quite [...]
King Of The World
I am the number one Chris on Google!
Movable Pizza
I'm stupid. In an effort to make an exciting GnomeVIDEO for the newsletter, I made myself sick. Don't ask how; you'll just have to wait until Monday when the whole world will find out just how dumb I really am. I had to lie down for an hour or so; that didn't help at all. [...]
Just Like Brian Wilson Did
Howto: Using Ogg Vorbis. “TuxPPC has done a small Ogg Vorbis HowTo on how to use the free audio codec to store and play your music data as an alternative to Mp3.” [I refuse to use an audio format which doesn't roll off the tongue. Ogg Vorbis?] For the Geek in Me. Get your favorite [...]
Clueless Ad Agency (Inbox)
Never having considered myself a geek or a nerd, even though I have spent over 35 years working in the computer industry, I guess I really am. While watching the Olympics – yes, sometimes I actually look at something other than my PC screen, although not often, I promise – this enlightenment suddenly came to [...]
More PDF Tools (Inbox)
Just wanted to let you know about PDF995 – it's a great program for creating PDF Files. Once you install it you can create a PDF file from any program by just printing it to the PDF995 printer. It can even be used to pull things from various files together into one. There are also [...]
InoculateIT Will Die
“In June 2001, users of InoculateIT Personal Edition (IPE) received notification that the program was ending and being replaced with the eTrust EZ Antivirus subscription service through my-eTrust.com. At that time, Computer Associates also advised that support would be continued at no cost for existing users of IPE who chose not to migrate. Since June, [...]
Some Kind of Record (Inbox)
Well, here you have it folks… Microsoft has finally pulled the plug on anyone who still has the audacity to be running Windows 95. They no longer offer updates for “MY COMPUTER”. Not my Operating System – “My Computer”! I guess they have determined that I should now replace this paperweight with a brand new [...]
Ugly Situation (Inbox)
I have become increasingly distressed by a malignancy spreading through the net. Several friends and otherwise good people have fallen victim to something that while strictly legal is morally and ethically just not acceptable. There seems to be pirates waiting in the wings to pounce on unwary folk who happen to let their domain registration [...]
Ben Goes To Hell
Okay, I didn't plan on doing this at first, but I just can't take it anymore. I just received another flame from some jerkwad going by the name “Ben Friedman.” The exchange started on Thursday, February 21, 2002 at 10:43AM. Sadly, he's not the first person to do something like this. Go to hell, Ben, [...]
This Is Really Weird
“Funny Voice changes the pitch of your voice. Higher pitch will let you sound like a smurf, less pitch will give you a deep voice. All you need is a microphone. Instead of your microphone, plug in the sound output of your tv card or your audio system and listen!” [Trust me, you've gotta give [...]
Spirit Of Fire
“Fairy fireplace and very realistic flame, calm blink of light and time create the atmosphere of coziness and light mystery. The usage of advanced 3D technology let express that ancient, nearly forgotten spirit – Spirit of Fire. Besides the ancient clock always will show what time it is, and you will be able to replace [...]
My New Autoresponder
Dear You, Your rude, insensitive, and/or pompous e-mail message has triggered this pseudo autoresponder. You must be under the assumption that: (a) You're the only other person on the planet. (b) You're the only person on the planet who e-mails me. (c) I have all the time in the world to pay attention to you. [...]
Sysdumb Restore
Here's another one for the XP book. Has anyone noticed that when using System Restore, you lose valuble hard drive space? This happened to my father. He ran into trouble and used SR to correct it. When that didn't fix it, he undid the restore and chose another restore point! After doing this about 6 [...]
Macintouching
Hey, I just realized that the semi-regular derogatory comments about Apple are a marketing test to see how many Mac users are reading your Newsletter. This makes good sense, since they tend to be a very local 1% of the computing world. Any negative comment guarantees an immediate response from the entire Mac community. To [...]
