Vista update: CSCService kills puppies
Following up on my earlier post about built in system services sucking CPU: when we last left the story I had disabled the Offline Files service, better known as CSCService, as a likely candidate for my regular out-of-resources situation. Four days later, it looks clear that CSCService is the culprit. I have had no resource [...]
Heh: towel flap
Who knew: the Microsoft gym towel flap turned into a real turnaround in Microsoft HR. Microsoft screws up an Office Online feature launch by simulshipping it with an announcement of a delay in the Mac version of Office. How can Microsoft be surprised at the reaction that got?
It’s time to play the music, it’s time to light the lights…
…It’s time to wait for the Cavaliers to blow it in the fourth quarter, on NCAA football (tomorrow) night. Speaking of the Hoos, a UVA undergrad on Facebook told me that the South Lawn project (building new academic buildings over Jefferson Park Avenue and into the parking lot across from New Cabell) has claimed the [...]
Did Dinosaur Jr. get the limo?
Guitarist/vocalist Thurston Moore says Sonic Youth should have broken up years ago—so they could make mad Benjamins on the reunion circuit like the Pixies, Dinosaur Jr., and Mission of Burma have. Heh. (via)
Driving friendships between creators and critics
So: the Comics Curmudgeon rips regularly on Sunday newspaper feature Slylock Fox (“Kids! Find the 6 differences between these two panels! Help Slylock figure out how Cassandra Cat murdered those girl scouts and turned them into cookies!”)—probably incidentally driving up readership of the strip. Slylock Fox creator Bob Weber returns the favor with a custom-designed [...]
RIP to the Beer Hunter
RIP Beer Hunter Michael Jackson, whose writing taught me everything about beer that I never learned at college. The front page of All About Beer has a tribute and his final column, ironically about surviving a near-death experience earlier this year (sorry, no permalink). They also have a guestbook, which currently features signatures and stories [...]
Catching up
A ton of links that have stayed open in various browser windows for a few days as I dug out of work in the next few posts: Let’s start with an oldie but goodie: Lawyer and administration critic Daniel J. Solove investigates the Playmobil Airport Security Screening playset, which is now even further behind because [...]
