The Vince Files

Anna’s friend Janet blogged about an eBay store she discovered. The Faucet Discounters sells cheap (as in very inexpensive) faucets.

I still remember ICQ’ing with Anna waaay back around 1998-1999. At the time, it seemed like everyone had an ICQ number (what ICQ refers to as a Universal Identification Number).

Good Luck finding a job at Philippine Airlines! Wow! You’d never see job requirements like this in Canada.

I logged in to my Virtual PC 2007 running Windows Server 2003 and pressed ALT+Enter to go in to full-screen mode and suddenly, I see this:

W2K3 on Virtual PC 2007 BSOD

I reset the Virtual PC, captured a printscreen then proceeded to try to upload my photo to my gallery. I didn’t realize my [...]

Anna was doing some work tonight in one of her spreadsheets and needed a bit of help. One of the things she was doing was calculating the number of months between 2 dates. There isn’t really an easy way to do this in Excel without resorting to using its VBA macro language. [...]

I was installing Windows Vista Service Pack 1 after having downloaded it from the MSDN downloads site.  During one of the reboots, my machine sat on the bootup screen.  This is what I saw:

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My machine came with a 250GB hard drive and an optical drive.  I added a second 200GB hard drive so I [...]

The American Democratic presidential race is now down to two main candidates: Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.

I just upgraded to the latest version of WordPress.  WooHoo!  Upgrade was a breeze.  Deactivate plug-ins, backup, copy files, reactivate plug-ins, done.
Now I just gotta see if my email notification still works.  I don’t remember where I set all the SMTP stuff.

I was just checking out the Michaels website and happened to notice their slogan: Imaginate.

WordPress comes with a stripped down version of the TinyMCE WYSIWYG editor. It looks a bit boring:

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So I decided to spruce it up a bit and download a plug-in that upgrades the text editor. I chose TinyMCE Advanced by Andrew Ozz and now it looks like this:

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Installation couldn’t be easier. [...]