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I’ve been trying out Evernote over the last week or so. To be honest, after I installed it, it sat there for a few days, before I really started to use it.
Now, however, I have started to make use of it, and it is proving useful. I like the OCR within images and handwritten [...]

I’m voting Democrat because I believe the government will do a better job of spending the money I earn than I would.
I’m voting Democrat because freedom of speech is fine as long as nobody is offended by it.
I’m voting Democrat because when we pull out of Iraq I trust that the bad guys will stop [...]

MySpace, bebo, Facebook, Seesmic, Twitter… now Plurk, and Brightkite. That’s just to name a few that I’ve messed around with.
A few days ago, I started Plurking, which is like a cross between a graphical IRC, Twitter, and micro-blogging.  The day before yesterday, I signed up with Brightkite, which allows you to tell (or not tell [...]

Computers are like cars.
A quick job almost always ends up taking hours, and something that you think will be a simple, inexpensive quick fix, entails buying half a new machine.
Well, perhaps not quite, but it often seems the case.
Anyway, I’ve been canniba lizing some of the many old boxes I had laying around here.
Kathy [...]

Now, I make no secret that I’m not a Microsoft fan. Not any kind of anti-corporate stance particularly, just that by and large I think their software sucks.
I had to smile a few days ago though. I know it’s a beta version, but I installed a copy of IE8 on a winbox here. I NEVER [...]