ERIC SHEFFERMAN <DOT> COM

So I’ve got a bunch of photos on my camera’s (It’s a Canon EOD 20D) compact flash card (a Kingston 4GB compact flash card).

These are old photos I didn’t delete (as a just-in-case measure) of a woman I photographed as well as photos from my recent trip to NYC for a WordPress Meetup and also photos I took of cooking Dr. Johns’ Chili and making homemade protein bars. A lot of stuff.

So I put the card into my computer’s card reader slot and it tells me the card is EMPTY and would I like to format it?

Uh… NO!

I put it back in the camera and the camera just said CF ERROR or whatever the little camera LCD readout equivalent of that is… I got the idea.

Crap.

Oh don’t worry! I was able to recover the photos. Read on…

Around 11:30pm?

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I already wrote about my miserable experience with Internet Explorer 8 crashing.

Fortunately, I’ve found a solution. Microsoft recognizes that some people want their computer to work and thus don’t want a browser that locks up, so they’ve release a tool to prevent Automatic Update from demanding to install Internet Explorer 8.

Run the IE8 Blocker tool today to protect your computer from the Microsoft virus (well, it’s not really a virus — but it is software they’ll force on your computer which will make it not work, and that’s close enough to a virus for me to not want it).

Yesterday my new machine running Windows Vista declared it had an important update – so I let it go ahead and install Internet Explorer 8.

Big mistake. Read the rest of this entry »