Insane Software Restrictions…
Thursday, 28 February 2008So, I’ve given up on not having Microsoft Office installed on my Mac. The new Mac version is out and, except for some insane inexplicable bugs (fix here), most people seem happy with it. I have been able to muddle through now for several months without it. I usually have used the Apple iWork suite [...]
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Quote of the Month
Sunday, 10 February 2008“[Y]ou don’t always have to chop with the sword of truth. You can point with it, too.” — Anne Lamott in Bird By Bird
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Fatal Flaw
Saturday, 9 February 2008So, this week’s laptop ordeal has revealed a fatal flaw in my one laptop philosophy. If you put your whole life on one machine and that machine dies or otherwise requires repair, then you have a problem. Ironically, this flaw was revealed only a couple of months before dipping my toes into a multi-computer approach. [...]
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Things Fall Apart
Tuesday, 5 February 2008Although we had a very nice time visiting my sister, it was a weekend of woe for my gadgets. As I mentioned previously, two arrow keys (left and down) stopped working on my laptop in early January. This was annoying, but could be tolerated until I had time to get the laptop repaired — a [...]
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Travel Thoughts…
Saturday, 2 February 2008So, we took our first airplane trip with Charlie this week to visit my sister and brother-in-law in Connecticut. I had a business meeting in Boston on Thursday, so that was a good excuse to come and see them. I decided not to get Charlie a seat on the plane, but to go infant-in-lap, which [...]
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