Unfortunately there are still some poor fools (yes, fools) out there are still using Windows 2000 at home. In the corporate environment I can understand why people use Win2k, but at home there’s just no excuse. You should be using Windows 7 or Linux at home. But I digress. Officially, Microsoft will be ending support for Windows 2000 on July 13, 2010. To...

I am not a journalist. Or am I? Keep that question in mind as you read through this. Dave attended BlogWorld Expo this year, and one of the things he noted is that Leo Laporte stated in so many words that new media will be the new standard in journalism soon enough. "New Media" is a very overhyped term, but is the only one that accurately defines the...

There are many of us (myself included) who remember the days when dial-up was the only way to get online, and there were two types of ISPs, the Corporate and the Mom n’ Pop. A few examples from when I was living in Connecticut: The locals were NECAnet and Cyberzone. The corporates were SNET and TIAC. All of them cost about the same price per month. (As a...