Our office's DST snafu for today was that only the XP machines updated the time change correctly -- the people still running Windows2000 are all an hour behind. Fun!

We finally figured that our XP machines are all pulling their time from one of our W2k servers, which explains why none of our computers reset themselves.

We finally figured that our XP machines are all pulling their time from one of our W2k servers, which explains why none of our computers reset themselves.

Yeah, I have the same problem. What bugs is that I did update the time zone definition on our W2K servers, but they're still still insisting that standard time is in effect.

Apparently there are bunches of registry settings that need to be changed.

There's a tiny little crack of the plastic of my MacBook. (NNNOOOOOOOOO!!!) Anyway, there's a little strip that stick out, where my wrist rests. Anyone know what glues can be used on this plastic?

We got a lot of hoodoo from someone labeled "senior IT management" (messages unsigned by a human, origin unknown to anyone actually in senior IT management) about how they were busily patching LOTS OF THINGS for the DST change. Followed by one marked PLEASE READ - ACTION REQUIRED, in which the proposed action was that we should reschedule our meetings if they showed up wrong.

I also have one coworker whose Notes account has been insisting for years that he's actually in Monrovia, Liberia. I forgot to ask him today if his calendar was right, unlike everyone else's, since Monrovia hasn't changed over yet.

Apparently there are bunches of registry settings that need to be changed.

Yeah, it's all about pointing the Windows Time Service at an external time source instead of the system clock. Simple in theory, but it's all about editing the registry by hand. Fortunately tomorrow is patch Tuesday, so I have to fiddle with the machines anyway.

The battery contact things are probably corroded.

It looks OK -- a little crusty on the edges, but not terrible. Dr. Google suggests a stiff brush. Do you think that'll do anything?

Holy crap the Logitech Harmonys are SEXY remotes.

I only got a low end one. It controls all my devices with ease, and when I initially programmed it, and it lacked a feature (page up and page down keys while in the guide mode of my cable box), I went back to my computer (which programs the remote through USB) and said:

Yeah, I'm a little disappointed that my remote doesn't work quite the way I want it to.

and my remote said:

I'm sorry I didn't work exactly how you wanted. Now I do.

Damn.

More incredibly sexy features of the Harmony:

• With two simple questions at software startup after install -- how indimidated are you by computers, and how intimidated are you by your home theater system -- the remote autodetects the required level of user-friendliness and help needed in the user.

• There's a set of soft keys that let you pick an activity -- watch TV, watch a DVD, listen to a CD, listen to the radio -- and when you select that activity, the remote automatically puts all of the devices involved or not involved in that activity, into their proper state.

• When I select "Watch TV" the remote turns on the cable, the TV and the stereo, puts the TV and stereo into their proper input state, and sets the buttons of the remote so that the volume controls the volume of the stereo, the chanel changes the cable, and I don't (or more importantly, S doesn't) have to press a button on the remote to tell it which device it's talking to. It automatically knows.

• There is not just logical separation, but visual differentiation of the buttons. The buttons that scroll around and select things or change chanel and volume do not look like the ten-key pad, which do not look like the stop, play, ff, rw buttons. The groups of buttons are given completely different appearance and feel from each other.