The new daft punk album is quite disappointing. Even “Discovery” wasn’t as good as “Homework” though it had a few really nice tracks. but the new album “Human After All” has completely failed to impress me on first listen.
This is really too bad, too. because I think Daft Punk is (was?) a truly revolutionary group.
I’m frustrated with FlexWiki — it’s a good system, but it lacks some features which I find ‘’so” useful on Wikipedia. For example, [[bracket links]] and the related lack of need to SmashWordsTogetherToMakeLinks. It’s far too techy for my purpose, which is to use a wiki as a way to keep documentation in progress.
I looked around for other wiki software. Mediawiki is an obvious candidate, being mature and by definition containing all the features I want. Yet it’s far too much trouble for me to install on our production systems (it’s a LAMP product, whereas our environment is WISA – Windows IIS SQLServer ASP.NET). Other wiki systems either look crappy or have no features, or are just as hard to install as Mediawiki.
So I guess I struggle with Flexwiki for now. Ugh.
Microsoft released their anti-spyware tool (it’s in beta, and free), and I decided to try it out. I’ve been a long-time fan of Lavasoft’s Ad-Aware software, but the Microsoft tool on first glance seems nearly as good. Lavasoft’s benefit is the software’s simplicity — install the thing, update to the latest definition file from time to time, and just run the scan. Microsoft’s software on the other hand seems to be more complex in its user interface but has features like background protection (with Lavasoft’s free version that feature wasn’t available), auto-updating, and a pretty usable interface.
Of course, my problem is that there’s far too much persistent software running on my computer now. Between Norton Antivirus, Google Desktop, and now this AntiSpyware tool, I have a bunch of things to disable or shut down when I want my tablet’s battery to last for a long time.