October 2008
8 posts
“[P]eople who win the bronze medal are happier than people who win the silver....”
– Penelope Trunk — Three counter-intuitive tips for managing your image
“By losing the ability to speak, I have increased my ability to communicate.”
– Roger Ebert — I think I’m musing my mind
Windows Rant Continued
Alright, whatever contagion slithered into my laptop, Norton was oblivious to it, for it remained despite the clean-bill-of-health scans. How do I know this? Well …
For starters, the startup freezes continued. Eventually I discovered that my most likely chance to log in was to unplug the USB mouse and USB disk and to wait a couple minutes after the Ctrl-Alt-Del prompt appeared before...
Windows Rant
At the start of this business trip, I was faced with the option of either traveling with no computing resource or lugging a Windows laptop from work. I chose the latter.
Well this morning I awoke to a screen announcing the discovery of Trojans. Some time between going to bed and getting up, the little buggers had infested the machine. Norton informed me that a restart was required in order to...
