I’ve had my Gmail account for about 4 years now and so I get a decent amount of spam. My address has been around long enough and used to sign up for various things that I average about 50 spam messages a day. Fortunately, Gmail does an excellent job of filtering the spam so I don’t ever have to look at it. I was deleting the spam though and noticed this message. Quite an elobrate message and strange to see the effort that someone went to making this: Mrs. Ruth Madoff West, Liverpool, London. My Great Compliments, I’m Mrs. Ruth Madoff, 67, wife...

Windows 7 should be coming out sometime this year from what I’ve read on various technology blogs and because of that I am extremely excited! I have been running the Windows 7 Public Beta on my HP dv6000 laptop for a few months now and I’m loving it! I have found that it is considerably faster than Vista in a number of ways. It boots up faster, switches users faster and browses files a whole lot faster. Now I know its not a whole lot to be excited about, but the main thing that has made me the happiest is faster network browsing! Yes, I know,...

I was randomly looking up a date on the calendar using Windows 7 Beta today and accidentally discovered a new feature! Turns out this feature is also in Vista but I guess I never noticed in the past two years of using Vista. I’m sure many of you know about it but I just thought that it was worth sharing. In Vista, if you click on the clock in the bottom right corner of the task bar, then a little calendar widget pops up with a cool analog clock on it like so: What I realized is that if you click on the Month name it will “zoom out” the...

Firefox is an excellent browser and I personally use it constantly. Installing Firefox is usually the first thing I do after installing a fresh operating system and I use Firefox constantly since I spend many hours on the computer through out the week. One common feature of browsers now a days is the ability to save your passwords. The first time you type in a password on a website, a nice little bar pops up at the top of the browser asking if you would like to remember your password. Sure! Most people gladly click ‘Remember Password’ so that...

I certainly have neglected this blog recently but really hope to start writing on it more. I have been fairly busy with work but I’ll be done working for the summer in about 2 weeks so that is pretty exciting! Then I’ll start posting some more and will be working on uploading some of the programming projects I have been working on for anybody to look at. Anyways, time to talk about the title of this post! I have been looking for one of my flash drives all week and just could not find it. I threw some laundry in to the wash this morning and never...

Well, summer started a couple weeks ago and I started working as a PC Support Specialist again! As a part of my first week of work I started work on re-doing 18 Dell PCs that are set up in a “museum” type setting. These PCs have a variety of interactive Flash applications and websites that visitors can use. Naturally, these PCs need to be “locked down” as much as possible so that people can’t just press CTRL-ALT-DEL or minimize the browser window and mess around with the computer. These computers were not set up very well initially...

After finishing off my duties at the Engineering graduation last night it was time to finish preparing for my move back home for the summer! I am officially done living in dorms! Next year I’ll be living in an apartment off-campus with my own bedroom and own bathroom! CAN’T WAIT! I definitely enjoyed living in the dorm and I’m glad that I did it. It was a very interesting experience and I met some very strange people along the way but I guess that is the point of college! I am glad to be done with freshman year and very glad that I can finally...