As I mentioned earlier, my new computer came with Vista pre-installed - and I’ve been slowly working on it to get used to it (and test) while I plan the move over to it. It’s a good test machine, but a bit anemic for development (but FAST - the Athlon...

More on Vista for a programmer: it’s rather annoying, since Vista has dropped support for the .HLP (help file) that we’ve had since the 80s. With the older help format not running, all your favorite programs are ‘help less’ for now (sorry, it’s late when I wrote this). It will...

As I mentioned earlier, I picked up a new computer, primarily to get Vista installed (my personal ’summer of code’ is to make sure all my Windows products work under Vista). And my first thoughts on Vista are mixed, to say the least. This is the first desktop computer I’ve...

I bought a computer this weekend from Office Depot. Not a high end one, but one I’m quite satisfied with - so much so I was going to recommend it to my readers, since the deal is on for another 2 weeks. And of course if I’m going to link...

It’s that time of year for me - time to renew the insurance... And despite the popularity of online insurance brokers, there’s one small problem - I’m in Canada. It’s odd, but most of the places that help online appear to be American - yet we need insurance as well!...