DiskWarrior saved the day

I took my MBP to a friend’s house and it started acting weird. It was very sluggish and things kept locking up. When I got home I ran Disk Utility and found that I had all kinds of permissions problems, and a “Sibling Link Error” that could not be repaired. I Googled the error and…

Time Machine backup error solved, for me anyway

I purchased a new Seagate 500 GB FreeAgent USB drive thinking I would simply clone my MacBook Pro’s HD. I’ve done it in the past and it worked like a charm, but this time I thought I’d try Time Machine. I have never been able to get Time Machine to work wirelessly, so I basically…

Brett Favre just doesn’t want to go to training camp

Are you as sick of the Brett Favre stories as I am? He’s at the end of a long career, can no longer do what he used to do, fades towards the end of the season, and yet he’s still a story. The constant retiring and un-retiring is covered in the press as indecisiveness, but…

Gmail contact picture problem

I’ve been having a problem in Gmail where my contact picture was not being saved. It would be there for the session, but if I changed computers or browsers my contact picture would be reset to an old photo that I don’t even remember uploading. Searching for answers yielded nothing but I finally figured something…

There is no such thing as unbiased News

Are you a CNN person or a FoxNews person? Either way, you’re not really getting real unbiased news. Instead of experienced journalists giving us news, we get biased “infotainment” these days. Different networks target different audiences and bring the biased news they feel their audience wants to hear. In the old days real reporters went…

Firefox + Yahoo Mail = Problems

For the past few weeks I’ve been having problems with Firefox. I thought it was a Flash issue so I uninstalled and reinstalled Flash. All seemed well, but now every time I go to Yahoo Mail Firefox is sluggish and draggy until I quit and restart it. If I don’t visit Yahoo Mail I’m fine….

Jack Kemp – What a Good Guy

Jack Kemp was such a great guy that it’s hard to find anyone who didn’t like him. You can find people who argued with him, but everyone liked Jack Kemp. He was just a nice guy. I didn’t know Mr. Kemp, but I did share an elevator with him once in Orlando. He was speaking…

Arlen Specter should retire

Arlen Specter’s defection to the Democratic Party is troubling because he is only looking out for himself. Doesn’t anyone care that our politicians only care about themselves, and not the people they represent? Mr. Specter is 79 years old and has been in the senate a very long time. Why not just retire? I was…

Obama agrees with Bush after blasting him in the campaign

What can I say, Obama is just like every other politician. He’s full of it. After blasting President Bush and accusing him of “undermined the Constitution,” President Obama now realizes that President Bush was correct in keeping the secrets around the Terrorist Surveillance program and is fighting the same lawsuit that President Bush fought. What…

A Few Things Mac Should Do Like Windows

I know what you’re thinking. “Are you crazy? Mac is so much better than Windows.” That may be true, but there are a few things that I wish my Mac could do the way Windows does it. 1. Alt + TabI really miss my Alt + Tab keystrokes in Windows. I got it to work…