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My mistake: that version of the Trend Micro software that I mentioned in my previous post didn’t fix the problem after all. Thanks to this comment in response to my first posting on this subject I learned that the specific component of the TM software package that’s causing the problem is the spam toolbar that [...]

Giving credit where credit is due: Trend Micro wrote to me again. This time they provided me with a download link for a new version of their installer, and, lo and behold, this version seems to coexist peacefully with the Microsoft debugger.
I did try the PC Tools spam-filtering software but was quite unimpressed. It runs [...]

Right around the time that our marathon of home-improvement projects was finally drawing to a close, Tracie noticed that the dryer had started making a funny smell. It appeared that its thermostat had died so it was running at full heat, all the time, regardless of its temperature setting. The laundry machines were far from [...]

There’s a nice little article on Tom’s Hardware here about the cost of the iPhone. Here’s a quotation:
Let’s put this in perspective: When you factor in the full price of an iPhone and $100 monthly service, you can buy the hot new Dell M1330 XPS Laptop with almost all of the toys (LED backlit screen, [...]

Having given up on Symantec’s “Norton” products for protecting my PCs against malware, I’ve been casting about for another vendor of security software. Tracie’s Dell laptop came pre-loaded with some anti-spam/anti-virus stuff from Trend Micro. It seems to work fairly well, so I purchased a three-seat pack of their current Internet Security 2007 package and [...]

I put up some new photos in the Paper Jade photo galleries recently. There are more of work done by Virginia White here and by me here. They’re not dated but I always add the newest photos to the top of the page. Most of the new ones by me came from books by Tomoko [...]

Here’s a photo of my most recent origami project. It’s an icosa-dodecahedron, constructed from units folded from 60 rectangular sheets of paper. (Yes, no glue was used.) The design is from Unit Polyhedron Origami by Tomoko Fuse. It’s about 20cm across.

The paper came from this package available at Paper Jade.

In a moment of remarkable idiocy, I forgot to put money in the parking meter before I went into the dentist’s office yesterday. I don’t know what caused this mental lapse; I made sure that I had change for the meter before I left the house, and I looked right at the meters as I [...]

There’s a rather clever and amusing commercial here for Trojan condoms. I won’t spoil any of it; just watch it. Also watch the “Making the Commercial” shorts while you’re there.
The story (which is on the NYT site somewhere) goes that CBS and Fox have refused to air it, despite the fact that their programming regularly [...]

We’re just lived through about a month and a half straight of home-maintenance hell. Somehow we were seized with insanity earlier this year and decided to schedule a complete replacement of the siding on the house for just after we got back from Japan. On one hand this was smart because it meant getting the [...]