Originally published at Comic Book Daily under my Bound Together column. Fan Expo 2010 started today at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre. The early bird package had a 2:00 PM entrance and there were hundreds lined up to get in:…
Dell had a fourty-eight hour deal on a TomTom XXL 540 M GPS with case for $150 CDN so I jumped all over it. Five inch screen, spoken street names, advanced lane guidance, U.S. Canada and Mexico maps plus lifetime…
In 1989 Marvel decided to give some Joe Simon and Jack Kirby work the deluxe treatment in the form of hardcover reprints. The Fighting American, Captain America and Boys Ranch were reprinted as hardcover volumes outside of the Marvel Masterworks…
Windows 7 is amazing but clicking the Downloads folder and then waiting and waiting while the green progress bar slowly progresses drives me crazy. Luckily there is an easy fix to speed it up. Locate your Downloads folder: it’s at…
Hurray! Google has finally enables multiple sign in for the majority of its services. It’s slowly being rolled out to all users but it was there for my three accounts as of today. It’s very easy to enable: log into…
One look and you know what I’m talking about: two patties, smoked pork loin, aged cheddar, lettuce, tomato, onion, pickle, mayonnaise. A culmination of all my burger wants barely fitting between two toasted buns.
My wife and daughter have been carefully tending our first vegetable garden and we have a small harvest: zucchinis. I wasn’t sure what to do with them but spotted a post about zucchini fritters on Michael Ruhlman’s website. It was…
Here’s a golden utility for the ages: SafeMSI is a user contributed single file to Windows IT Pro that does one thing and one thing only. When you’re in Safe Mode you can’t install or more importantly uninstall an application…
Originally published at Comic Book Daily under my Bound Together column. It was 1989 and DC comics was celebrating the 50th anniversary of Batman. They had started slowly publishing reprint material in softcover trade paperbacks but hardcover editions were left…