More Cranky User (2003/07/02)
It’s just a first draft, but there’s a book there now. The first Cranky User book is starting to look like an actual book; people have read it. There are gaps, there’s all sorts of revision needed, but it’s a book.
[read more...]Mac is back! (2003/06/27)
Well, I can’t prove that all is well, because I’ve had one crash since it came back, but I think that was my own stupid fault. :)
[read more...]My Mac is dead. Again. (2003/06/17)
Every so often, this happens to me. My Mac will enter a state where it is unreliable, and I will be unable to use it for production work, but the reliability will be sporadic enough that it’s hard to diagnose. Yesterday, I brought my G4 tower in to a local repair place in the hopes that they can fix it up for me. I sure hope they can. The crashes it has are exceptionally strange, and I really don’t know what to make of them. All the normal steps have been taken; were it up to me, the next thing I’d do would be to swap the processor module out (it’s a dual-processor Mac, but there’s just a single “processor module”), and the thing after that would be swapping the motherboard.
[read more...]Dark Falls Early (2003/06/13)
Well, it’s not a full issue, but the the cover for the first issue of Metanoia is scanned in now. The first couple of pages are coming along. The web site (not accessible, sorry) is starting to look like a web site.
[read more...]It's sort of depressing, really. (2003/06/09)
Intuit was, for a long time, the valiant little company, standing up to big bad Microsoft. But it’s been going downhill, for a long time. First came the spam problem; they started spamming registration addresses. Then came the dubious Mac support. Then Quicken 2002 turned out to be prone to crashes and occasional data corruption. Then I found out they were NEVER going to fix those bugs, and that 2003 simply added flashy features. Then I finally got data corruption that I positively could not get rid of.
[read more...]Trolls, flames, and responsibility. (2003/06/05)
“What should be done about a member who repeatedly misquotes, paraphrases and sets up strawmen, only to get the other posters upset and frustrated, and when the other posters reply in this upset and frustrated state, the member who set the whole thing in motion reports the members who have been upset or frustrated by the tactics?”
[read more...]Writing and laziness. (2003/06/04)
The hardest part, for me, of being a “writer” is trying to figure out whether or not I’m being lazy.
[read more...]Hey, I can combine these into one sentence! (2003/06/03)
I’m one of those people who talks before he thinks. No malice, no ill-intent; it’s just that forming words doesn’t require any kind of conscious intervention on my part, so it tends to just happen, without much awareness until it’s already happened.
[read more...]Metanoia (2003/06/02)
So, my spouse’s working on a comic. And it’s a cool comic. It’s tentatively called Metanoia, and I can’t see the title changing any time soon.
[read more...]My Instapundit Number Is 2 (2003/06/01)
My Kibo number is one. That is to say, I have gotten email from Kibo. If you have no idea who or what “Kibo” is, but I’ve emailed you, your Kibo number is two.
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