Cav's Place

Apparently that virus scan wasn’t so pointless after all, because it discovered something. Five things to be exact. And no, the two likely false positives it kept finding in recent months in a kit I’ve been keeping around for years are not included, because it finally decided to stop saying those are viruses. Two were […]

Due to some unusual behavior noticed Saturday night (or Sunday morning, since it was about 5:30 AM), I decided to pull forward this month’s “computer maintenance” a little. So I ran chkdsk on two partitions on Sunday and was planning to backup and check the other two partitions yesterday, finishing up with a virus scan […]

About a month and a half ago, I ordered some books. A bookstore from here that also has books in English was offering a 15% discount on all on-line orders, which made the prices more acceptable, so I took a look and picked a few things. Couldn’t find what was at the top of my […]

There was a time, when elections were looming, when I had to rush so I wouldn’t end up needing to post something during the last two or three days of the month in order to stick to my rule of posting on at least two separate days each week, because the server the blog is […]

It would have been our eighth anniversary today… Instead, it’s getting close to five years since she left and about two and a half since we last spoke. So it’s just a very painful day for me, quite possibly the worst of the year, though there are a few others that could rival it… Either […]