It’s high season for “gifting.” This time of year, there’s a holiday for everyone, no matter what your taste, or “persuasion.” And what a coincidence – they all require the presentation of expensive “presents” to loved ones. Or so the retailers would have you think! Personally, I prefer to give “the gift of love,” when called upon to step up to the plate. At least I did, until I told my wife that once on our anniversary. Let’s just say she taught me a “life lesson” I’ll never …

‘Tis the season to recount our failings and misdoings, to make amends for the things we are sorry we did, and to resolve to make it up to those we have wronged.
And so, in that spirit, we come before our computer and humbly apologize for all the abuse we have put it through in the past year. We blame it for slowness and sluggishness, but whose fault is it that our PCs aren’t performing up to par? Who is it that installs the spyware, adware and junk-ware that makes things …