No, I’m not talking about those worms in the yard – this is a computer problem! While experimenting with different Linux OS versions to install on my old laptop, the GRUB bootloader was installed. Actually it was installed by DSL (Damn Small Linux). I loved DSL by the way, but it would not recognize my [...]

I have this old laptop sitting around collecting dust. I paid good money for this thing 5 or 6 years ago, but now it can’t run the latest Windows software. Otherwise, it works just fine. So what should I do with it? Problem 1: My old laptop works fine and still has some life in [...]

Internet Explorer is object impotent. Recently I have started using more advanced Javascript objects structures in my web applications. This beautifies and simplifies the code. Its the right thing to do — except that IE just can’t their objects to propagate, if you know what I mean It took me a while to figure this [...]

It is very unfortunate that the most handicapped browser is the most ubiquitous. It is a situation that I am usually acquiesent about. But I am now fed up. I am ready to move on to the future of web. All of the other browsers are on board, but Microsoft is in no hurry. So [...]

Don’t you hate it when customers ask for one thing; then a week after they get it they want something else – and you knew it all along? Yeah me too. Just like when working on a data management application the customers said they wanted reporting. They agreed that the reporting would be based on [...]