Application Focus Amock

Applications that steal focus are the bane of my computer experience. Particularly egregious are the ‘sudo’ type authentication dialogs on the OS X platform. On a multi-monitor setup ( which I have at work ) these dialogs remove the focus to a place where one is not looking. It is too easy to continue type [...]

Attracting the Spam

Five years ago, I wrote a post entitled “Combating Comment Spam” It amuses me that this post attracts the most comment spam than any other post on this site. The spam ratio is easily 100:1

King Kong – Utter Failure

Words fail me to express the extent of failure this movie achieves. Watching it, I had the sense that the story line of canceling the protagonist’s movie was the unvoiced request of the directors plea to halt the production of this trash.

Bizarre warning signs

This warning confounds the imagination. Seen in a Company restroom:

Please be careful when using urinal

I wish I had a picture of it, but alas, no camera is available.

Act 2005 – Unable to install

OS: MSâ,,¢ Windowsâ,,¢ XP

SP: 2

Act: 2005

Action: Uninstalled ACT 2005

Results: Removes all ODBC drivers from System

Fix: uninstall service pack 2. Reinstall MDAC 2.8. Reinstall ACT (if that is your goal). Reinstall service pack 2.

Why: I have know idea. Uninstalling a program should never remove all the ODBC drivers, only [...]