Perseids, a Bad Floodlight, and a Cold Thermos of Coffee
A late night in the backyard for the Perseid meteor shower peak, a neighbor's terrible floodlight, and a couple weeks of living with Windows 10.
The Windows 10 Settings I Turned Off First
A walkthrough of the Windows 10 privacy and Wi-Fi Sense settings worth flipping off right after you upgrade, plus a few complaints along the way.
The Windows 10 Settings I Turned Off Immediately
Two weeks after upgrading, here's exactly which Windows 10 privacy and Wi-Fi Sense settings I turned off, plus the Disk Cleanup trick that got me back 12GB.
Somebody Just Won $6.6 Million Playing Dota 2 and I Cannot Stop Thinking About It
The International 2015 wrapped up Saturday night with an $18 million crowdfunded prize pool, and Im still trying to figure out what that number actually means.
Making the Windows 10 Nag Icon Go Away
A step-by-step guide to killing the Windows 10 upgrade nag icon and stopping the forced reservation download, after watching it hijack a relative's laptop overnight.
Holding Out Against the Windows 10 Icon
I held out against the Windows 10 nag icon for six weeks. Notes on the privacy toggles, the Start menu redemption arc, and why Solitaire of all things now has a subscription fee.
My Windows 10 Upgrade Weekend
Notes from a weekend spent upgrading to Windows 10: the good Start menu, a printer driver headache, and digging through privacy settings that default to sharing more than I'd like.
Four Days With Windows 10 (And Turning Off Wi-Fi Sense)
Four days into Windows 10 on my old Dell laptop: the Start menu is back, Edge is a ghost town, and Wi-Fi Sense wants to share your router password with your contacts by default.
Three Days In With Windows 10, and the Settings I Almost Missed
I spent the weekend upgrading an old ThinkPad to Windows 10, and the privacy settings buried three menus deep turned out to be the part nobody's launch-day post mentioned.
The GWX Icon Finally Did Something
A late-night account of upgrading to Windows 10 the moment it unlocked, the Start menu's return, and one real complaint about forced updates on Home edition.
My Windows 10 Upgrade Day, Printer Driver and All
A day-one diary of upgrading two real machines to Windows 10, including the printer driver that broke, the update settings buried in a submenu, and why the new Start menu almost makes up for it.
So Where's My Windows 10?
Windows 10 is supposedly out today, but my reserved copy is nowhere to be found yet, some notes on the staggered rollout and the GWX icon that's been nagging me since spring.