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Est. 2002

Julie Barrett is a freelance writer and photographer based in Plano, TX.

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Friday!
Yeah, I didn't update yesterday. My bad. And tonight will be short. The creative problem solving tournament is tomorrow, so I'm busy herding cats teenagers.

So, how about a quick update or two?

I'm still digging into Vista Sidebar gadgets and am experiencing much frustration. This is something I put down to my lack of JavaScript skills. Had I been doing this in ASP.Net, I'd have hacked it out in an hour or two.

Oh, well. I'm learning quite a bit.

I've a...

2/23/2007 7:14:26 PM
More Vista Madness
Lots of Geek Speak ahead, but I'm writing this up in the hopes that it helps someone else planning to upgrade to Vista.

I spent yesterday trying to get Outlook to work properly, and discovered after much wailing and gnashing of teeth that Outlook 2002 (and by extension earlier versions) do not fully work with Windows Vista. Here's the story if you want to get geeky. In a nutshell, Windows does not support the way passwords are store...

2/20/2007 9:35:33 AM
A new Vista
Well. I'm now running Windows Vista on my desktop. As upgrades go this could have been far worse. The only piece of hardware I had to replace was the sound card. I came close on the scanner, but I was able to hack together a driver using a method I'd found for XP 64 along with an updated version of the SilverFast TWAIN replacement. The latter falls under the category of "don't try this at home, boys and girls" - unless you really know what the heck you're doing. Thing is, I love my scanner. The ...
2/19/2007 11:03:15 AM
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