My mother-in-law is going to buy a computer, and she asked for my help. She mentioned Wal-Mart; Best Buy and BJs also came up. She wants to spend $600-800 and for the system to include a decent-sized monitor and a DVD burner. Other than that she's not going to be a power user at all. Desktop, Windows (I recommended XP, but she may not have the ( Read more... )

Dear Microsoft,

Just a note to say "hi!" and thanks. I was working on my website, trying to get things done before finally getting some much-needed sleep. But you knew that my work wasn't really important. And that's why you decided to install some important updates and force my computer to restart ( Read more... )

The New York Times reported today that Karl Rove was personally deleting his emails from the RNC server until 2005, when the RNC changed the system to stop him from doing that. Frankly, I have to wonder why - it's simply not credible that they did it to obey the Presidential Records Act. They've made it abundantly clear that they regard themselves ( Read more... )