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Website for You

I’m finally going to follow up on my post from about 2 months ago, Too Many Websites. I sat down today and suddenly remembered a few sites that I love, but don’t have time for – and so the’ve been growing stale for about a year. All it takes is for someone to put some…Continue Reading…

System Restored without System Restore

From the recovery console: del c:\windows\system32\config\system copy c:\windows\repair\system c:\windows\system32\config\system That did the trick. My device drivers are mostly uninstalled, and some of my settings were reset (notably, video settings). But this was easily to fix: Windows already had all the drivers, so I just had to go through the motions of clicking through the driver…Continue Reading…

Error 983, 1609, 19, hal.dll, bootcfg, 0x24, Ntfs.sys, and chkdsk

That title summarizes my computing adventure for the weekend. If you understand it, contact me. We should be friends, if we aren’t already. I’ll go into more detail once I get the problem fixed. At the moment, my taskbar is dead (taskbar doesn’t show applications), the clipboard doesn’t work, and I’m afraid to reboot. But…Continue Reading…

45% of businesses don’t have a Website

According to the Office Live team, “45% of small businesses don’t have a Web site at all” (Scobleizer). That’s a great opportunity right there. But websites need to be easier to make. Header, footer, and content — with a sidebar to link it all together. It can be fast. It can be easy. Let’s do…Continue Reading…

I’m slipping

On Monday, I wasn’t yet prepared for my first computer science midterm, so I skipped my tennis class in order to study more. On Tuesday, I was planning to wake up in time for 9am breakfast, but I overslept and was even a few minutes late for my 9:30am class. It was okay, though, because…Continue Reading…

Large Rectangle & Collapsing Ad Units

I made two changes to my AdSense setup here today. First, I added a large rectangle to the footer. This should give you some links of interest when viewing any page of the blog. I also put this unit in its own custom channel, so I can see its effects separately. Second, I made all…Continue Reading…