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Monthly Archives: March 2018
Review of “The Titan”
* * C The Titan is the latest movie made exclusively for Netflix. It’s a science fiction film set in 2049, in a future where the Earth is failing. A scientist, Prof. Collingwood (Tom Wilkinson), comes up with a reckless … Continue reading
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Tagged movie review, netflix, rick jansen, sam worthington, science fiction, taylor schilling, the titan, titan, tom wilkinson
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Windows 10 Performance: Disk at 100%
Windows 10 was lagging like crazy this morning. I opened the Task Manager (using Ctrl-Alt-Del) and discovered that the disk was running 100% of the time. I tried a bunch of things described in How to Fix: 100% Disk Usage … Continue reading
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Tagged google chrome, memory 100%, prediction service, superfetch service, task manager, windows 10, windows search
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Why Won’t Men Commit to Marriage?
The Spectator has a new article that claims Commitment-phobic men are the real reason women are having children later. Is this true? We are becoming a nation of older mothers. The average age at which a woman has her first … Continue reading
Review of “Travelers” (season 2)
* * * B Travelers continues to deliver. The second season involves two major conflicts: the first traveler, and the faction. There are plenty of new wrinkles, including the director’s ability to overwrite someone multiple times to allow “retries” when … Continue reading
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Tagged eric mccormack, grant maclaren, mackenzie porter, netflix, patrick gilmore, science fiction, travelers season 2
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WebHelper Adware Cleanup
One of the problems with Windows is the prevalence of adware, unwanted crap that people bundle with “free” software to make money. One such piece of crap is WebHelper, which comes along for the ride if you install the utorrent … Continue reading
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Review of “Prodigy”
* * C Prodigy is a fantasy/drama about a psychologist, Dr. Fonda (Richard Neil) who is asked by an old friend (Jolene Andersen) to give an opinion on a prisoner who is under military guard. The prisoner turns out to … Continue reading
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Tagged jolene andersen, movie review, prodigy, richard neil, savannah liles
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