Archive for August, 2005

On combating spyware and prevention

Monday, August 22nd, 2005

I’m getting pretty good at cleaning spyware off of WindowsXP systems. Not that I have to do it very often, thankfully, but it’s always a pain when it happens because the stock Windows tools available — regedit and task manager mostly — require a lot of manual work to effectively clean house.
I used to just [...]

The petrol blues

Monday, August 15th, 2005

To quote someone whose 15 minutes have long since passed, ‘Stop the insanity!’.

Mad Chicken Rockin’

Thursday, August 11th, 2005

Is it just me, or does anyone else find those new BK Chicken commercials disturbing?