Tech and Blogging

You’ll notice a new feature here at TruePravda. It’s called On the Side, and it’s a sort of weblog-within-a-weblog, if you will. In On the Side, I’ll feature different articles of note from around the web with little to no comments. These are basically things I’ve found interesting which I’m either waiting to blog about … Read more

If you’ve ever tried to get rid of an old computer, you’ll know it can sometimes be a chore. Tunku Varadarajan has a hilarious article in the Wall Street Journal today chronicling his attempt to be dispose of his: We bought the machine in 1998. Six years ago. I do not know anyone who has … Read more

I’ve made some changes to the site layout this weekend. After much internal debate, TruePravda has decided to go 3-column (cue the Jefferson’s theme “Mooovin on up…”). I’ve checked the layout in Firefox and IE 6.0 and it looks OK, but with CSS layouts, you never know. If things on the site look really convoluted … Read more

Mozilla Firefox 0.8 is out. No, is isn’t the Soviet plane that Clint Eastwood stole in the 1982 movie FireFox, it’s a web browser. Formerly known as Phoenix, and Firebird, I’ve been using this browser as my primary web browser for over a year. It’s faster, and has better features than Internet Explorer, and you … Read more

I’ve been using Computer Associates’ free EZ Armor Security Suite for my anti-virus software for about two weeks, and everything seems to be working well—even with all the MyDoom onslaughts in the last two weeks. I switched because I was having some conflicts between Norton Antivirus 2003 and Outlook XP. Since Microsoft and Computer Associates … Read more

Is anyone having a problem viewing the right-hand panel (if there is no panel with links to the right of these words, your answer would be yes)? If so, would you please email me at truepravda@jaredbridges.net. Be sure to list what browser/version/platform you are using. Some people are reporting problems viewing the site in Internet … Read more

I don’t know how many times I heard my mom say it when I was growing up; “You get what you pay for…” Well, consider me finally learned of this in respect to web hosting. I haven’t posted in a few days—and it’s not because I’ve been sleeping in on account of Daylight Savings Time. … Read more

If you’re using Internet Explorer, which I imagine most of you are, you’ll notice some stylesheet problems on the site (the site looks perfect in Mozilla Firebird). I accidentally deleted the stylesheet last night and I’ve been trying to reconstruct it. I notice that the comments section is a little out of whack too. Please … Read more

For those of you who have ever bought a computer with a 40 GB hard drive and wonder why in the world your computer says you have only 37 GB of space, you might find this interesting. It seems a group of computer owners are suing several manufacturers for deceptive advertising. According to the lawsuit, … Read more

…software, that is. Yes there are still some worthy software titles out there that are without cost. Since I’ve been referred to as a computer geek from time to time, I thought that I would list a few of the free software tools that I use or have used: Mozilla Firebird .61. I use Firebird … Read more