I enjoy reading; so a literary meme seemed like a fun thing to participate in. And it’s a great excuse to talk about one of my favorite authors, so I’m taking the liberty of going thoroughly off topic. This one, I picked up from Emma, who picked it up from ThePickards. The rules: Grab the nearest book. Open the book to page 123. Find the fifth sentence. Post the text of the next 4 sentences on your blog along with […]
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I Bought a UPS
That is, an Uninterruptible Power Supply. Why? Well, on Saturday I had a bit of a power failure: in the middle of working on a project. I didn’t lose much…but I did lose some project work. Frustrating experience… So, now I have my own little battery backup: 45 minutes of continuous power. That should give me plenty of time to save my work and shut down! Comes complete with handy-dandy auto shutoff software (which I have not yet installed). Its […]
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Well, I’m currently on a trip into the Northeast – spending a little time in Rochester, NY to complete the long process of moving to Saint Paul. Rochester was my home for two years prior to moving to Vienna – and it’s still the home to about 350 cubic feet of my possessions. It’ll be nice to see them again! Unfortunately, there’s too much chaos in the trip to be able to do any driving around the rest of the […]
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Well, I’m on the road this week, so posting may be lighter than usual. You never know when a few extra minutes might pop up, but I’m certainly not betting on it! For what it’s worth, I’m in Rochester, NY – picking up a storage unit full of the possessions I left here a year ago when I was moving to Vienna. It’s always interesting to be reminded of the stuff you’d forgotten about in visiting a storage unit – […]
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This post has nothing to do with IE7‘s support for CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), adherence to web standards, or general functionality. Instead, it’s a general complaint about one specific annoyance: why did Microsoft’s IE (Internet Explorer) development team want IE7 to “click”? I mean, as a marketing metaphor, it’s great. Everybody wants their product to “click”. However, in this case I think they’ve taken it a bit too literally.
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