Automation Adventures

ArsGeek has an excellent article on how to make the Vista Shutdown button actually shut down your computer.
In the Plan Settings for your Power Options, choose the Advanced Power Settings, and change the Power buttons and lid, Start menu power button option to Shut Down.
See the Arsgeek article for a more detailed description with pictures.

It looks like all went well with the upgrade to Wordpress 2.2.
I may change the design a little over the next week or so, to take advantage of the new plugins option in 2.2. This makes maintaining the site much easier (i.e. no need to hack into PHP code to add a small functionality to [...]

Lifehacker has updated a cool little utility Adam Pash has developed, called Swept Away.
Swept Away monitors your open windows, and whenever a window hasn’t been used for a user-defined number of seconds (default 300 = 5 minutes), it automatically minimizes the window. This not only helps you keep an uncluttered view of your desktop, but [...]

Well, I just spent close to two days figuring out how to make the Progress Debugger to run in Windows Vista 64-bit.
When we first installed OpenEdge 10.0B on Vista, an error message popped up that the registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Secure couldn’t be accessed. Since everything seemed to work OK, we didn’t pay much attention to it.
Until [...]

Today Wordpress 2.2 was released on the unsuspecting masses. It includes a couple of neat improvements (speed, Widgets included in the core, better comment moderation), and it looks like we’ll be moving to WP 2.2 this weekend.
So this Saturday, from about 9AM to 12PM, there will be intermittent outage on this website…