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Finally, I have decided what I would like to do with this blog. I will use it to store notes on how to do various (technical) things. Often, I need to work out the details of how to install and configure a package, how to make use of some software library, or how to implementContinue reading “A Collection of Notes”

It has been 12 years since I last posted anything here. I think the time has come (probably long overdue) for me to restart this blog in some useful way. However, I’m not sure I want to follow the original vision I had for this blog when I started it. Much has happened since thenContinue reading “Restart?”

Not long ago the Visual Studio installation on my main laptop decided to not work. Specifically, as soon as I opened any project Visual Studio closed immediately without any messages of any kind. The problem turned out to be related to the VMware plug-in for Visual Studio. Any heavy computer user is going to encounterContinue reading “Project Wheel”

I’ve had this blog for about eight months and yet I’ve only posted a few entries in it. Honestly I don’t have all that much to say, and I don’t want to talk just to hear myself talk. Instead of spending time maintaining this blog I find that I’d rather spend time working on oneContinue reading “Indefinite Hold”

It is common to find single applications that integrate several services that could have sensibly been provided with separate applications instead. How much integration is smart is, of course, a matter of opinion. I think integration makes sense if the things being integrated are closely related and can reasonably share application features. For example, ThunderbirdContinue reading “Email + IM?”

It’s been a while since I last posted anything to this blog. I have been extremely busy this semester so it’s hard for me to justify spending time writing blog posts. This is particularly true given that I’m blogging mostly as an experiment anyway. I think if I’m going to survive as a blogger IContinue reading “Change My Approach”

I’ve been watching the increasing popularity of blogs with some interest. Yet I can’t figure out the point of them. Do people really think everyone in the world is interested in their thoughts? Blogs often contain collections of random posts that are related only by way of the blog author who posts them. Is thatContinue reading “Blogs Are Pointless”