Solving my BSODs with Windows 10 Creators fall update—it’s not the usual culprits

Amazingly, Microsoft Windows 10 Creators fall update arrived last week on my desktop PC, and it took all of 25 minutes to do (running a Crucial 525 Gbyte SSD). (Add an extra 35 minutes for me to put my customizations back in.) This is in contrast to the Anniversary update, which took 11 attempts over […]

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Remember when you could post, comment and like on Facebook? Those were the days

Let’s see: Facebook doesn’t work on Wednesdays and Fridays. Check. Thursdays are OK though.    It’s another one of those days where the Facebook bug that began on Wednesday (though, really, it’s been going on for years—including the famous outage of 2013 where what I am experiencing happened worldwide to a large number of users) […]

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McAfee did good: a software company that didn’t jerk me around in ’10

A new computer arrived at the office, Firefox 3·6·13 was installed on it. Boom goes the dynamite (thanks, Jen—since I watch very little television I had no idea of this reference). It wasn’t the ‘unmark purple’ bug, either (sample size so far: 1).    It’s a different set-up to the rest. For starters, it has […]

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Google’s Rick Klau restores Social Media Consortium

All it takes is finding the right bloke and hoping they would do the right thing.    At the end of the day, that was the lesson in getting Vincent Wright’s Social Media Consortium blog restored.    Yesterday, Josh Forde Tweeted me about an article he had read, where John Hempton’s Blogspot-hosted blog had been […]

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