Brent Rockwood

If you read the documentation for BitLocker, it appears that you can use a USB drive to store your encryption key in those cases where your computer does not contain a compatible trusted platform module (TPM).  However, if you attempt to enable this feature using the step-by-step guide you will find that, by default, BitLocker will only [...]

I’ve been using Windows Vista for almost a month now on my primary laptop.  Overall, I must say I’m quite happy with it but it’s not without its quirks.
Sleep Mode
Sleep mode only works for me about 70% of the time.  It appears that as long as I disconnect all my USB devices before putting the laptop [...]

Lots of people have written about being in the zone.  If I think about it, almost every really creative, kick-ass piece of work I’ve ever churned out has been achieved between the hours of two and seven in the morning.

I’ve been reading a series of responses to this year’s Edge world question, “what are you optimistic about?”  It’s a great question and the responses from some of the worlds smarter folks are illuminating.
On the one hand, I’m a bit of a newshound.  I read at least one newspaper per day, and my feed list [...]

Compliments of the Warholizer.

Well, here we are in 2007 and that means the annual new year’s resolutions.  For many years my resolution has remained the same — try to do fewer stupid things than I did last year.  I think that’s an admirable sentiment, but not exactly awe inspiring.  Also, after 16 years of smoking a pack a [...]