Are You A Procrastinator?
Cartoon by Dave Walker. Find more cartoons you can freely re-use on your blog at We Blog Cartoons.
A Monster Phishing Scam
I just received an email from an Adrianna -at- Monster.com with the subject “Monster.com suggests You the new job, Jonathan Franzone.” I do have an account at monster.com, but I have never received an email like this so of course I opened it up to see what was up. My first indicator that this email …
Win A $100 Best Buy Gift Card
Want a chance to win a $100 gift card from Best Buy? It’s easy. Just take the Dice Salary Survey and provide your email address at the end of the survey to enter. I just completed the survey and it only took about ten minutes… really no big deal. The offer expires October 26, 2007 …
How Do You Organize Your Desk?
Cartoon by Dave Walker. Find more cartoons you can freely re-use on your blog at We Blog Cartoons.
Friday Song Of The Day – Emotional Rescue
Emotional Rescue by The Rolling Stones appears on their Forty Licks album from 1980. I love the song as with many of The Stones songs. The content though appears to be a guy pleading with some woman to leave her husband or boyfriend to be with him. Hmm… a song of adultery, possibly? Of course …
Frank Herbert’s Dune – Audiobook
I just finished Frank Herbert’s Dune on audiobook and am completely stoked. It really made the commute back and forth to my new job so tolerable. I saw the old movie made back in 1984 for which I have always been a fan. However, I never read the actual book and now I regret that …
PC Problems – The End In Sight
As per my last couple of blogs I have been having some problems using my PC… I can’t use it. I have been receiving the error “A problem is preventing Windows from accurately checking the license for this computer. Error code 4: 0x80090006“. This is one of those elusive problems that has many postings on …
A problem is preventing Windows from accurately checking the license for this computer
Well, the saga of the broken PC continues. I’ve tried running Windows recovery console from my Windows XP disc, but have not been able to get back up and running. The computer still boots fine and I can see all of my files there at the console, but no login in normal Windows mode. I …
PC Woes
Well my PC took a huge dump this weekend. It’s an odd sort of problem as you can actually boot the computer up. There are a few unknown exception errors that popup as the login screen appears. Then when I try to login it gives me some strange error about validating my Windows license and …
How To Convert Tab Delimited Text To HTML Using AWK
Have you ever needed to quickly process a text file into some other format… say HTML? Well, I run across this problem more frequently than you might suspect and there is one tool that I use quite often to solve the problem. AWK is a general purpose programming language that is designed for processing text-based …