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1. 
   Review - Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 3

   Final (Apr 29, 2008)

   Works. Does nothing extra except what the overview document says it'll do. No, I didn't notice any difference in Office App speed. It isn't any slower, but isn't any faster either that I can tell. Just think of it as a normal security update...a really big one...

2. 
   Review - AVG Anti-Virus Free

   7.5.524a1289 (Apr 16, 2008)

   Yeah, I had to finally stop using this one because of all the false positives it picked up--and in the end it's "tamper protection" (or whatever AVG calls it) prevented me from easily stopping the processes that picked up these certain false positives. When that happened this last time, I finally gave up and uninstalled AVG so that I could run the legitimate program.
   
   It was a sad day in a way, but I had had enough of the inconveniences that it gave me. I started using AVG Free because it was free and easy, not so I would have to hassle all the time with it. Slowly over the years (particularly between version 6 and version 7), it had become more and more of a hassle.
   
   Oh...and before you ask if I'm sure that the "false positives" were indeed false, I used http://virscan.org/ and found that only AVG had the false positive and no others. This happened four times last year alone with four separate programs, and once this year that was the last straw. Shame too, I've used AVG Free since version 5.0 on Windows 95.
   
   I moved to Avast! now. Not anything super, way better customization features though. It also supposedly has slightly better detection rate and certainly can't have any worse results as far as false positives go...but I digress--after all, this is a review of AVG Antivirus, not a review over Avast! Antivirus.

3. 
   Review - Vista Codec Package

   4.6.3 (Apr 15, 2008)

   This one does well. I've used this one on another machine and it seemed fine--haven't found anything left out yet, although I've heard it is not quite as comprehensive as K-Lite which also works fine on my main PC. (both run Vista FYI)

4. 
   Review - K-Lite Codec Pack Full

   3.9.0 (Apr 15, 2008)

   I've tried many other codec packs out there, and this is the one I settled with. After installing it, I don't run into any problems with codecs. This is the best I've used by far.

5. 
   Review - Microsoft Malicious Software Removal Tool (x86)

   1.40 (Apr 9, 2008)

   Yep, it does what it says it does. I for one welcome it, as it is not an extra resource hog and does a one-time scan (unless you manually run it again).

6. Comment - Verizon Wireless launches new Android, Chocolate, and ruggedized phones

   1.40 (Nov 6, 2009 - 11:36 AM)

   Nevermind--it does on both (and I fell like an idiot for asking now).

7. Comment - Verizon Wireless launches new Android, Chocolate, and ruggedized phones

   1.40 (Nov 6, 2009 - 10:39 AM)

   Quick questions--does the Droid Eris support Exchange ActiveSync? Can it read .doc and .PDF files? I'm getting conflicting info from every website I look at about this.

8. Comment - Flashback 1990: The debut of Windows 3.0

   1.40 (Oct 22, 2009 - 12:58 PM)

   shucks, we would likely have miracle cures and warp drive space craft by now if it weren't for the conservative right wing impeding the progress of mankind.
   
   ...?

9. Comment - Mozilla designer suggests Windows 'browser ballot' is preferential to Apple

   1.40 (Oct 16, 2009 - 5:10 PM)

   Alphabetical order, eh? Yeah--great news for the new Aardvark browser :)
   
   Seriously, this whole ballot box thing is getting sofa king ridiculous that I'm tired of reading about it. If you don't want to use IE, just download another browser, disable IE from Programs and Features, and be done with it.

10. Comment - House Republicans in uncharacteristic unison over 'one-size-fits-all' net neutrality

    1.40 (Oct 6, 2009 - 10:47 AM)

    We do have 'equal access'. What's stopping Dan from getting the exlusive pipes? Money. Why doesn't he have money? Because he isn't as successful. Therefore...who do you think NEEDS to lock up an exclusive pipe? Google/Amazon or Dan's wonder app? Dan's wonder app will be able to acquire the 'exlusive pipes' it needs if it becomes successful.
    
    Did Google/Amazon become successful because they always had more money than the competition? Because they had some built-in advantage from the getgo? Were dogpile, msn, yahoo, and ask jeeves unable to do what google did, or was google just faster/better at what they did? That's how the free market works--the good ideas are successful, and the not-so-good ones are either less successful or fail. This encourages good ideas and good business.
    
    Free market works better when it's...free. We're in a temporary recession right now so it is a little harder at the moment to have a successful business, but net neutrality is trying to fix a temporary problem with a permanent solution--it never works. There's no way around the fact that it'll screw us in the long run.