I’ve been trying to help a friend troubleshoot her blog’s visitor counter today. She’s using Blogger, which I hadn’t tried before, so to be accurate in my suggestions, I created a dummy blog and tried installing several counters on it.
My results were somewhat mixed. I could not duplicate the counter error she’d seen, but I [...]

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I was merrily posting a new entry to my personal blog this evening, when I discovered it had been infected with some malware. When I tried to look at the page, all I saw was the background image, and the status bar in Firefox showed “waiting for banished.ru”. After looking at the files on [...]

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See update at the end of this post.
A mentioned here earlier, my new iPhone 3GS was activated with only minor problems. Now we have another data point to add to the history. My husband’s new iPhone arrived yesterday, days earlier than promised by AT&T, thank you very much! So, I set about putting to work [...]

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Some things have been remade frequently because they are fill a useful niche, and someone thinks they can either do them better, or because they want to see them in a new form, or perhaps they perceive a potential money-maker. This seems to be the case with color wheel applications. A quick Google search turned [...]

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I should have done this hours ago. Following my instincts, I went ahead and switched the SIM cards between my old and new iPhones, and when I turned it back on the new one was activated! In business!! Why AT&T and Apple couldn’t have just come out and said to do that in the [...]

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It has been roughly six hours since I first powered up my iPhone 3G S, but I am still waiting for the magical activation to happen. A little while ago it occured to me to look up my blog posts from June, 2007, to remind myself of how long it took to get the original [...]

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It’s here at last. Now, I’m not going to do the “unboxing” schtick — that’s been done. But as I recall from 2007 when we bought our original iPhones, getting the shrinkwrap off was the hard part.
Connecting to iTunes and restoring from the backup I made from my old phone has gone well, but I’m [...]

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Tomorrow is the day the iPhone 3G S arrives, finally. A couple of hours ago I checked on my order with AT&T, and saw that it has been shipped via FedEx, but there is still no tracking number posted there, so I will just have to be patient and trust. But one unexpected side effect [...]

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The iPhone 3.0 software is downloading now, to be installed on my old phone in advance of getting the new one tomorrow or Friday. Ohboyohboyohboy! Well, actually, I’m not all that excited, but it will be nice to have a faster phone with more bells and whistles. The fact that I dropped my old one [...]

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Back in the olden days, before the Web and blogs, the way people expressed themselves and held interactive discussions was by using Bulletin Board Systems, or BBSs. Since I acquired my first modem-equipped computer in 1983, a TRS-80 Model 100, that’s how I started my online life. My dad gave me one for my birthday [...]

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