News and Views

Today is the Winter Solstice, the shortest day of the year. On the equator the day is 12 hours long, any day of the year. In Tempe, Dallas and Pasadena, today is about 10 hours long. In Boise, Idaho it’s about 9 hours long. In Anchorage it’s 5 1/2 hours long. In Fairbanks it’s a […]

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“It sure does”, you must be thinking. Viruses, trojans, spyware, adware, rootkits, all this malicious software sneaking on to your computer really bites. My current favorite malware remover is “Malwarebytes“. It finds and removes things that other programs have trouble with. I’ve even used it to remove the Vundo trojan, which is one of the […]

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This is pretty good. You can waste a lot of time with it.

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Suddenly this morning I started receiving “Undeliverable” messages from email servers all around the world, many of them complaining that I’m sending spam, or sending to expired email addresses. The messages were coming in at several per minute, flooding my inbox. In a half hour I had a few hundred. One’s first thought when this […]

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I got another phone yesterday, the new BlackBerry Flip. It’s a full-featured BlackBerry phone in a flip (clamshell) format — the first flip BlackBerry on the market. I used to have a Kyocera 7135 flip Palm phone. It seemed small when I bought it, but this one is much smaller, and very light. I think […]

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Devon’s Toyota Prius is a hybrid car, using both electricity and gas to drive the wheels. As revolutionary as that is, GM is planning to push the technology envelope even further with the Chevy Volt, due out in 2010. Lithium Ion batteries will drive the car for up to about 40 miles. As the batteries […]

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Might be a little expensive…

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This is a very interesting investigation into a very sophisticated computer scam. Clicking on the wrong link can get you into a lot of trouble if you’re not careful!

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Here are some of the free programs I’ve been using. Firefox Firefox has had the 3.0 version (now 3.01) out for a few weeks. It looks pretty stable, with a couple of new features. For one thing, it’s supposed to use less memory, and release memory better when it is done using it. This seems […]

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Microsoft released some windows patches last night that don’t cooperate well with ZoneAlarm firewall software. The result was that millions of people woke up this morning and were unable to access the internet. If this happened to you, here are some workarounds. (Of course, this is assuming you were at least able to connect to […]

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