Automation Adventures

I’ve just finished upgrading the blog to WordPress 2.6. Please let me know if there’s something not working, or something looks odd. Thanks!

My wife posed this question to me about a week ago. She spilt some milk on her keyboard, and wondered what was the best way to handle it.
A little bit of Googling revealed the following steps:

UNPLUG your keyboard. No ifs buts or whatevers.
Try and get as much of the spilled beverage out of the keyboard.
If [...]

This week my car was in the shop, and as a loaner vehicle I had a 2008 Ford Focus, with Ford and Microsoft’s new Sync system.
The car itself is OK. I normally drive a Ford Taurus, so the Focus is a little smaller, but I used to drive a Renault Clio back in the Netherlands, [...]

For a week or two now, I’ve been using Enso Launcher. Enso Launcher is a product from Humanized, a company focused on making the computer and its usage more humane.
Enso Launcher installs itself, displays a welcome message, and then immediately disappears out of sight. It patiently waits for you to press its hotkey (Caps Lock [...]

(1) Kensington Bluetooth 2.0 under Windows Vista 64 bit
(2) Blackberry Desktop crashes when reading Outlook Calendar
(3) Wow64: How to get the Progress Debugger to run in Vista 64-bit
(4) Setting up MXP to run under Linux
(-) Spore Creature creator - Spore demo program

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