So I was over on my old computer today looking through files, trying to see if there was anything I missed to load onto Yggdrasil Mark I. While I’m there, I open Internet Explorer to check some of my local files. The thing is, whenever I try to go to any file within Internet Explorer, all of a sudden I get deluged by hundreds of browser windows, all of which are trying to access a page on my bank’s Website. (It can’t get to them…

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New in .photography: Toledo Botanical Garden (shot today). As I explain on the page with the photos on it, it’s kind of my online tribute to my late grandmother. Unfortunately, I’ve got a test tomorrow, so I have to cut this short; I don’t think the gang at Backwash is gonna be happy with me being late with this weekend’s column no matter what the excuse …

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My grandmother died at about 0500 this morning. It was only to be expected given what happened the past week at the hospital, but of course the reality of those things never hit you until they actually happen. The family’s been sharing stories of her, so I figure I might as well share my favourite story of her with the rest of you. Although I’ve always followed sports ever since I was a youngster, I was never much for playing them, with the exception of…

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Well, here I am on Yggdrasil Mark I. Unfortunately, the modem in my previous computer couldn’t go into this one, because it’s hard-wired to the sound card and it’s got some other connections straight to the motherboard. We had another computer here at the house with a modem, but it was an ISA modem, and my mobo has no ISA ports. So I had to go get a generic modem from Stone Computer, but it’s a hardware modem so I’ll be able to use it…

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