A repository for troubleshooting responses to some common Help Desk calls regarding GroupWise, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Acrobat, Internet Explorer, and an assortment of other applications and hardware.

I’m trying to think of a word that I’m not sure even exists. It describes the phenomenon of two occurrences—two blinking lights, two beeping sounds, etc.—that each happen at regular but different intervals. Because of the difference between these intervals, the two occurrences will seem to happen in unison, then gradually fall out of sync [...]

I’m stoked. Emails for the second round of Halo 3 beta invitations were sent today and somehow I made it in. I was pretty pissed when I woke up late on the 5th and found the server at http://halo3.com/ clogged with people trying to get in. I mashed F5 for about 8 minutes anyway and [...]

In Chicago a few weeks ago, Mayor Daley held a press conference to announce a second generation of police surveillance cameras. The first generation cameras were large, white and blue boxes with a flashing blue light on the top and a large police seal painted on each side. These cameras were mounted on telephone poles [...]

Well, I’ve decided to start a totally new site for all the online banking content. I was never comfortable with the fact that the web design stuff that I consider to be a hobby had to coexist along side the crass commercialism. So I bought the domain www.onlinebankdeals.com. The idea is to keep ardamis.com pretty [...]

…as the proverbial witch’s tit It’s so cold out that I feel that I should still be seeing my breath for a few moments once I get indoors. Like some sort of dry-ice phenomenon. It’s really cold out there.

Fanfare lacking; it’s just me. I’ve carved out a little place for myself. This web site primarily serves as a testing ground for internet-related technologies that I am toying with or considering implementing. Over the last few days, I’ve changed the structure of this site from static xhtml to a WordPress blog. All in all, [...]