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1. Mar 13, 2006 Free WiFi in Ottawa?

2. Mar 13, 2006 Chuck Norris Update

3. Mar 13, 2006 Marble Madness Madness

   Marble Madness is a game that has been on my mind a lot over the years, considering I have never actually played it. Though it was first released in 1984 and was ported to the Apple IIe (my first computer) two years later, I first saw the game when it came to the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) in 1989. I've been wanting to play it ever since. A just-released free remake called Rolling Madness might allow me to do just that... if I ever get it working.

4. Mar 11, 2006 Suspicion

5. Mar 6, 2006 Installing IIS after Service Pack 2

   I'm preparing to record one in a series of video tutorials for SitePoint, for which I'll need a copy of Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS), the web server that comes with Windows XP Professional, installed on my home computer for the first time since I installed Windows. The usual way to do this is to launch Add or Remove Programs from the Control Panel, click Add/Remove Windows Components, pick IIS from the list and then go from there. But if, like me, you're working with a copy of Windows that has been updated to Service Pack 2, you'll just get this error: Microsoft helpfully offers a solution to this in its online knowledge base. Problem is, the solution (which will most often require "Method 2" in that article) requires you to have a Service Pack 2 CD on hand, and Microsoft's web site does everything it can to talk you out of getting a copy of that CD.