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WGHubris on February 14th, 2009

After experimenting with various anti-virus and firewall software lately, I’ve settled on using Comodo Internet Security for my home office network for now. This all started when I actually caught a virus on my PC.  I never did find out exactly what it was or where it came from, but I had numerous programs that [...]

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WGHubris on February 5th, 2009

It is always fun to find new art that you can enjoy. I love Edvard Munch.  I once travelled to Vienna primarily to see The Scream painting that was part of a large Munch exhibit they had at a newly renovated art museum there.  As others flitted through the installation stopping for more than a [...]

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WGHubris on February 4th, 2009

I wanted to try Microsoft’s Visual Web Developer Express.  Frankly, I think that Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 might be a little bit like using a sledgehammer to kill a fly based for many of my daily website development tasks.  Sure, if I’m building a new site from scratch, or doing a major site overhaul, Dreamweaver’s tools [...]

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WGHubris on January 13th, 2009

I need a new laptop.  No, really.  This isn’t one of those guy things where I say I need a new laptop and that means that I want a new laptop.  My hard drive is failing.  I get those semi-random blue screens when I boot that say something about bad sectors and running CHKDSK, which [...]

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