Automation Adventures

As I twittered about a week ago, I’m upgrading from Vista to XP. Vista has become very unstable over the last year that I’ve been using it, and all the beta drivers and programs that I had to install to support 64 bit probably did their share of damage. Not to mention the WOW64 addition [...]

For the past two days, my Blackberry Desktop software has crashed when it was trying to read the Outlook calendar entries. Rebooting didn’t help, and I really didn’t want to reinstall software and go through the pain of resynchronizing.
Luckily, the solutions was relatively simple. After Googling around for a bit, I came across this post [...]

Microsplot has an interesting article contradicting Microsoft’s slogan “100 Reasons You’ll Be Speechless“. Au contrair, MS. People are talking more than ever about Vista, and not all of it is Wow.
Some of the items are not entirely Microsoft’s fault, such as not supplying disks with a new computer, but the majority of the issues are [...]

After all the Mac guy vs. PC guy videos, you might think they’re running out of ideas. Not so. This one is too funny (especially since I’m struggling with Vista every day…):

I finally got my Bluetooth adapter (a Kensington Bluetooth USB Adapter 2.0) working. Initially when I bought it, trying to install the factory supplied driver wouldn’t work. After a tiresome exchange with support, where they informed me that there was no Vista driver available, and they didn’t have any information about whether or not the [...]