My musings about life, happiness, technology, and what ever else comes along.
After looking for quite some time for an add-on to Firefox or IE to ease blog posting, I finally found one — and I like it.
ScribeFire is an add-on for Firefox 2.0 newer. It provides a collapsed, hidden panel at the bottom of the browser. It has various options and allows you to post to more than one blog. Plus, it performs rich text editing i.e. HTML.
You can find it on https://addons.mozilla.org.
My Rating: [5 out of 5]
My PC is running Windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit with NOD32 antivirus/anti-spyware and Windows Defender.
Windows Defender is not the best anti-spyware however it does have it’s place. NOD32 from ESET does a decent job on spyware and it is one of the best for antivirus so I was happy.
Part of my normal security procedures verifies everything is updating itself properly. Windows Defender had not updated in quite some time so I opened it and manually ran an update. I promptly got the following error:
Arrgh say I!
After a little googling, I found a procedure that fixes the problem. Apparently the definitions have something wrong with them (corruption maybe?) that causes the update to fail.
Here is the procedure that worked for me:
That is it. It worked for me. Here is a screen shot of an example run of those commands once you have a command window open:
The War Powers Act
What a load of crock!
The act of going to war, whether it is an actual declaration of war against another sovereign nation, to answer the call of an ally, or a “border action”, is the realm of congressional power only. The presidency can certainly request it of congress however the decision must be with congress only.
The unconstitutional law called the War Powers Act or the War Powers Resolution must be repealed to return balance to our checks and balances system.
The framers of our constitution well understood that there needed to be clear, concise lines of power with each branch of government in charge of its sphere with no legal way to use power from one of the other spheres. Allowing the president to send troops into war situations with out congress approving is, in my mind, tantamount to treason.
Congress is complicit in allowing this unconstitutional law to remain on the books. Yes, I have read the arguments of why it has not been overturned in the courts. It is still a load of crock!
