Chronicles of Windows 7 Part 2: Multi-Monitor Support
One of the awful, terrible, no-good parts of Vista was its multi-monitor support. My set up is a laptop mounted in a docking station with a second monitor. ...
Blame for the Metro Crash
The Metrorail system is deeply inculcated into the fabric of transportation in the DC Metro Area. Everyone uses it, at least once or twice. It is a testame...
Twitter and Compression of Meaning
An interesting and often-mocked technical limitation of Twitter is the 140-character limit. The semantics of the buzzword “microblog” aside, I notice in my ...
DC Alerts Does It Again
I am really not intending to make this blog a running commentary on DC Alerts, but sometimes my hand just gets forced. Though my last post on the issue was ...
DC Alerts Is Ready For the Zombie Apocalypse
I was pretty harsh on DC Alerts in my last post. And I stand by that. But say what I might about DC Alerts, I do have to give them props for one thing: The...
DC Alerts Needs To Take Its Role Seriously
The idea behind Alert DC’s text-messaging/email alert system is a good one: Broadcast information about emergency situations to interested and/or affected pa...
Chronicles of Windows 7 Part 1: Qualcomm Gobi 3G Modem and VMWare NAT
So I went ahead and installed Windows 7 RC 1. The process is remarkably smooth, and the OS is nicely polished. The new task bar is a long-overdue change, f...