I was doing my morning Digg surfing when I came across an interesting article on the main page with one of the words censored out of the title. I don't know when Digg starting censoring dirty words, but I wasn't logged in and I guess it's enabled by default.

Here's the skinny - I purchased a laptop, it stopped working, and I wanted another one. But, in order to accomplish this feat I had to venture into the dreaded world of corporate technical support. We've all been to this place, comfortably guided by a recorded voice on the other end. Presented with options, that while close, just don't seem to ever match where you're trying to go. This story is about Dell's version of this place. It's better than many, but far from great.

Do you remember that old magazine game, 'spot the differences'? Usually you'd be given two images next to each other and you have to circle all the things in one image that were different from the other. Let's play a couple of rounds of 'spot the differences' shall we? This time, instead of images, I'm going to show you a couple of blog posts.

Due to some performance issues I was having with Firefox and sites with a lot of Flash, I decided to give Flashblock a try. I'm not necessarily a proponent of blocking advertisements - this blog uses ads to pay for the bandwidth - however some of my favorite sites were causing some downright unacceptable sluggishness in Firefox. I eventually narrowed the problem down to the many Flash ads some sites put on the page (at the time of writing this, Engadget has six Flash advertisements on their main page).

Recently, we decided to write a tutorial on how to use Silverlight's isolated storage. In theory, isolated storage is a great feature that allows Silverlight to view offline content. In practice, however, you're pretty limited on what it can be used for.