So, after what I can only call excessive drama, I am back online with a new Sony Vaio, with all the fun of reauthorizing Office 2010, reinstalling iTunes, reinstalling Yahoo, and so on (yes, yes, folks, this time I will remember AIM ( Read more... )

So, the main computer is, in the cheery words of Best Buy, "undergoing several significant structural problems," which is a kindly term for "completely fried." (The key here was the fact that the computer spontaneously went into System Restore without my permission, which I thought was odd at the time, and turns out to be very odd indeed.) Adding ( Read more... )

No, not dead, as followers of my Twitter feed are realizing, to their sorrow, merely knocked out by a combination of major computer problems, medical irritations and massive fatigue. (And since we all saw the results of the last post, which resulted from fatigue, I think we can agree that just perhaps stepping away from the internet until I could ( Read more... )

(typed on the netbook. The entry is about the main computer ( Read more... )

newbabel chats about his experiences with publishing hereIn unrelated alarming news, right after the loss of the left cursor key, my h key seems to be having difficulties. I really don't feel like replacing the keyboard on this computer, but nothing else, saving beating computer manufacturers on the head, seems to be coming to mind as a long term a ( Read more... )

From multiple sources, a couple of recent articles explain again why most musicians make no money from record sales - and why most of that money ends up heading to the record label.

This is why some artists - the one that comes to mind is Jane Siberry - have given up on the concept of record sales altogether, while many others survive on touring ( Read more... )

Student claims school spied on him through a webcam in a school-issued laptop.Several thoughts ( Read more... )

The power supply for the Toshiba turned distinctly cranky today, refusing to work unless the cord is held at a very, very particular angle which seems to shift on a whim. Since waving power cords around at weird angles is not my idea of entertainment, and for a variety of reasons I am not buying a new computer until January (if then), I'm shutting ( Read more... )