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So it only took about 5 days to get just about everything configured on my new machine. Three days ago, I set up Delphi, got Behold compiling and found a few Vista-based bugs that I quickly squashed. I even put up a black based 2560 x 1024 background from a poster on the New Horizons mission to Pluto website. ...

Its popularity is soaring and I don't understand why. Blogs make sense to me. You write a complete story that expresses your thoughts or opinions about something that is meaningful to you, that you hope will be meaningful to others as well. They can follow you by RSS or find your your post via a search ...

For awhile, my XP computer had started feeling a bit sluggish. I thought I'd try to clean it up ... go manualize some startup programs and do a good registry cleaning. But I got a bit too aggressive and the computer wouldn't boot up. There was some sort of driver error that it would hit before getting into ...

April Fools Day in Winnipeg, and we awaken to 3 inches of wet snow, on top of the 5 inches that was still on the ground. How do you like my daughter's April 1st snowman? Setting up the new scrollbars were problematic. That's working now, but there's still some important features that used to work but due to ...

I have attained success at making the Everything Report "Virtual". Now what appears to be a big huge report is simply only a porthole looking at the piece of the report you want to see. The speedup and reduction in Behold's memory use is dramatic. This is, of course, the way all other genealogy programs ...

To complete my previous post about GTD, I want to mention the fatal flaw in this methodology. Getting Things Done tells you to determine the next action you need to do for all of the stuff/projects you need to do. That is good! Once you do that that action, you can go onto the next. I've, in effect been ...

This one has bugged me for six months, but tonight I finally solved it. On this Blog, there are two RSS feeds. One for the Blog Entries I make, and one for all the comments. But the RSS feed for the comments never seemed to show the comments after they were made. They seemed to appear sometime later. It ...

Twenty years of using a mouse, and until I saw it I never even thought of it. I'm right handed and I've always used my right hand to hold the mouse. But then when I saw a righty doing it, it made so much sense. If a right handed person holds the mouse with their left hand, their right hand is free to write ...

I always enjoy reading a good self-help book. I like to find ways to do things better and more efficiently. But it seems to me that most of the people who would best benefit from these books are the people that don't read them. I've heard a lot recently about the book Getting Things Done: The Art of ...

The work continues on splitting Behold's Everything Report into pieces. But while I do spend a lot of time working on Behold, I also spend time keeping up to date on what else is happening out there with regards to genealogy software. Most of you know I've set up GenSoftReviews, which now pretty much runs ...