aFlickringLight

A Journey to Seattle and Back

What Five Years can do to Internet Explorer

As I unwind from a long day of educational mind-molding and customer-service mind-turning work, I am reminded thanks to the crew of fellow geeks and tech enthusiasts over at Gizmodo that today, or thereabouts, marks the fifth anniversary of a little thing many of us call Firefox. Call it insignificant, call it game-changing.  Whatever you call it, whether you use it or not, Firefox has become the big dog of the little dogs.  No longer do we have to browse the Internet in the bloatware that co...

It’s Vista, but Works

The boys in Redmond finally seem to have figured things out. Maybe it just stopped raining all day, every day on the big giants campus up North, maybe not...probably not. The bottom line is, Windows 7, the successor to the clumpy, bloated, and obnoxious Vista that just seemed to never work, seems to do just the opposite - that is, it works. Every major new OS release seems to bring its problems. Remember when XP came out with some major security flaws? By Service Pack 2, though, XP has been a s...