Archive: April 13, 2008 - April 19, 2008
New Tech-Support Resource: Reviewer's Guides?
As I was making yet another futile attempt to clean the accumulation of paper off my desk earlier this week, I noticed how much of those printed products were the reviewer's guides that tech publicists usually hand out to critics. I have long ignored these documents while writing a review,...
By Rob Pegoraro | April 18, 2008; 7:19 AM ET | Comments (5)
Insecurity Over Security Software
It's time for a confession: I can't remember the last time a security program stopped me from accidentally opening a virus on any Windows machine--even though my public, widely published e-mail address has to be on half the spam databases in the world. That's because if you know what to...
By Rob Pegoraro | April 17, 2008; 12:32 PM ET | Comments (5)
The Tax Filing Frenzy
Shortly after 7 last night, the tidbits of tax arcana that I'd crammed into my noggin over the past month or so began to evaporate. I had finally clicked the "Transmit" button to file my taxes, with about the same doubt over whether I got the "right" number as last...
By Rob Pegoraro | April 16, 2008; 12:45 PM ET | Comments (26)
Won't You Be My Neighborhood?
When Yahoo Maps recently started displaying neighborhood boundaries in a few hundred North American cities, I had to check out the mapping site's take on D.C. neighborhood boundaries. And I wasn't surprised to see that it got many of them wrong. Some of these errors are the sort of exaggerations...
By Rob Pegoraro | April 14, 2008; 11:52 AM ET | Comments (8)
