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a hair-band lovin', techni-junkie's banter about… whatever.

Dynamic Facebook “Like” button in ASP

Yesterday, Facebook rolled out an update which allows people to place “Like” buttons on their websites, which is then shown in their “Recent Activities” on Facebook. As an added bonus, if one of your friends also clicked the “Like” button on the page you are viewing, you will see their thumbnail on that page. It’s [...]

Remove old remnants from a downgrade of Vista 64 bit to 32 Bit

I’ve recently had to do a downgrade of a Vista 64 bit machine to Vista 32 bit. Because I have a copy of Windows Vista Ultimate Upgrade, I was only able to do a “Clean” install of Windows, from within Windows itself. Despite what the “Clean” install seems to indicate, the HDD is not formatted, [...]

Fixing a Lexmark E332n that will not pick up paper.

Last year, I wrote an article on “Fixing” a Brother MFC 240C Printer which explained how to bypass the “feature” of that printer which would not allow you to print in black if one of the colour cartridges was short of ink.  To this day, that article is the most popular article on my blog, [...]

Back to the Good ‘Ol Days

Not much to write about lately, but that isn’t necessarily a bad thing, is it? Just wanted to pass along a little website that I heard about on Slashdot today about a mashup of google called Goosh (GOOgleSHell) which makes Google look like it is running from a Unix command prompt. Seeing as I have [...]

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