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After experiencing many problems creating ‘bootable’ USB memory sticks that would work with my older PC, I spent hours on a long and frustrating search for good information about USB memory and ‘LiveUSB’ sticks. This article details the results of that search, including how to make a USB stick that will boot on both a [...]

Earlier I wrote about some serious problems with online banking, and even had a letter to to the editor published in A.M. Costa Rica. (And no, if you visit the link, it’s not the article about the hookers—you have to scroll down the page some). After that, I received some nice comments and offers of [...]

2010 will, I predict, be the year that banks must change how they do business online. Each day there are new reports of the dramatic increase in cyber crime. Increasingly, the various anti-virus products are unable to detect and protect against mal-ware called “trojans,” and law enforcement is unable to even identify many of the [...]

I’ve only been using WordPress for about two weeks but wow, am I impressed. It is simple yet powerful, elegant and customizable. What more could a person ask for? A lot of people are asking for Content Management features. However, others say they’ve been using WordPress as a CMS for years. I may not know [...]

Do you have a point of view? Do you want to share it? Are you thinking that blogging might be interesting, but don’t know where to start? More people are asking me about this recently so, over the past several days, I took some time to learn the basics. This blog is the result. [...]