Category Archives: Computers and Internet

Minutes before Kathy’s brown bag. What to do, what to do? Facebook? pwned! Facebook is presently down for "site maintenance". Grrr. Backup plan: blog. (Really, the backup plan should be to get back to editing my dissertation proposal so I … Continue reading →

Um, so yeah. If you’ve read the comments on my blog or on my facebook profile, you will have noticed that we did find Vivian, though it was the result of Vivian looking for Rebecca on Facebook, rather than my … Continue reading →

One thing that Pat is good for is collecting links. He used to kill quite a bit of time on the internet. I think it’s contageous. That you are reading this suggests that I am right. Anyways, I just noticed … Continue reading →

I stayed home today to work on a computer program that will sort through all of Ken McRae’s features and group them together. Unfortunately, the network was a bit messed up, so I was unable to use the internet for … Continue reading →

So with my normal desktop computer in the shop (still), I’ve been trying to make myself at home on my other computer, which has thus far just been acting as a file repository, mostly so I can access my mp3s … Continue reading →

I am writing this entry on my laptop, as I sit in bed beside the pokester, who is sleeping. There are two reasons for this. The first is that the pokester has a fit when he wakes up alone in … Continue reading →

I followed through with my threat to reinstall my OS on this computer. Now I’m in the middle of reinstalling all my old applications, or at least those that I remembered to save to the fileserver computer (which runs Linux, … Continue reading →

So this morning Facebook was brought to my attention. In order to see the profile of a friend I was looking up, I had to first register with facebook. Little did I know…   You know about trap door spiders? … Continue reading →

I am writing this blog entry on my new toy: an IBM Thinkpad X60. I love it. It’s much smaller than my previous notebook computer (a 4 year old Compaq Presario model 2110), but my guess is that it’s at … Continue reading →

I don’t know why, but for the last 2 days, using different computers on different networks, I have been unable to sign on to MSN. Just noting that, in case anyone is wondering why they aren’t seeing me online. Error … Continue reading →