A Windows hack to NOT perform

Add Copy To / Move To to the Windows Explorer Right Click Menu :: the How-To Geek. I tried this hack. It’s also done by several shareware programs if you don’t want to muck with the Windows registry. But it’s really screwed up my file associations in some cases, and made SAS nearly impossible to [...]

I wonder when the 12 step program will come out

Suffering From Discomgoogolation? You Are Not Alone…. I do this as well, but I try to catch myself. Mostly, it’s a realization that I can’t distract myself from boredom, if necessary. A smaller part is that I won’t be able to “Google” (i.e. research) some vital piece of information when I need it.

Early cancer detection

I never thought I would see the day where I would call a piece written by David Gorski (aka Orac — I guess it’s good form to associate the two now since he’s blogging under his true name at Science-Based Medicine) well-written. But here it is: his description on the difficulties of disentangling the effectiveness [...]

I like the new Firefox

It has a cleaner interface and seems to be a lot faster. Check it out, if you dare! (I’m using 3.0b4 right now.)

Google has a patent search!

Sweet. Any guesses as to which patent I searched for first?

Pzizz

Pzizz is a strange-sounding name of a very useful software product that guides you into a nap or full-fledged sleep, depending on which option you pick. You can either play it from the computer, or export a “nap” track to mp3 and copy it over to your digital music player. The program is for Windows [...]