A Late-Summer Afternoon With Boot Camp

Despite having done so much work on my new computer late this morning I found myself inventing more things for myself to do. I started looking over the 79 gigabytes of data (400,000 items) I had transferred from DVD...

Posted by mistersquid on September 8, 2009 5:50 PM

Simpleminded

After finishing the major work for a new web page, I discovered the page wasn’t properly rendering on Internet Explorer. I expected some discrepancies because the page layout used some moderately advanced CSS. What I didn’t expect was that the...

Posted by mistersquid on October 31, 2008 10:53 AM

Leopard is Incomplete

I lived with Leopard as my only operating system during 28 October - 8 December 2007. Yesterday, I spent a few hours reverting the data on which Apple's Mail and iCal depend into formats suitable for Mac OS X v....

Posted by mistersquid on December 13, 2007 10:17 AM

Back to Business

One of the windows that Tinderbox gives me to my current project....

Posted by mistersquid on September 6, 2007 10:18 PM

October Surprise: Clobber the Blogger

At a campaign stop in Charlottesville, Virginia, staffers for Senator George Allen (R-VA) beat up Mike Stark, United States Marine, University of Virginia Law student, and blogger for Daily Kos.The issue which gets neglected due to the unseemly and easy-to-sensationalize...

Posted by mistersquid on October 31, 2006 9:27 PM

Disintegration

Tomorrow will mark the passing of the 2006 autumnal equinox and my own passage from social disconnection to emotional desolation, to a place of strength and longing. Upon learning that the astrological sign which claims me is Scorpio, a beautiful...

Posted by mistersquid on September 22, 2006 9:55 AM

Late to the Party

or, what’s the use of an RSS reader? On the face of it, it seems freakish that as recently as September 2005 NetNewsWire was “the most popular desktop newsreader on any platform” considering that it was (and still is) Mac-only...

Posted by mistersquid on July 29, 2006 8:53 AM

Instant Karma!

On 10 April of this year in “Cure application crashes,” the first installment of a series titled “OS X First Aid,” Landau suggests that badly behaved applications can sometimes be rehabilitated if you 3. Restart Your Mac Select the...

Posted by mistersquid on May 23, 2006 9:15 AM

de-woot, Redone

I went to bed shortly after the previous post, looking forward to waking up in the morning. I sometimes envision sleep as a one-way tunnel that requires unconsciousness to enter. Waking puts one on sleep's other side, rejuvenated and altered....

Posted by mistersquid on April 22, 2006 8:26 AM

The Virtues of a Second Blog

Ivan Berger has an article on the New York Times where he considers “The Virtues of a Second Screen,” to which I want to respond where has this guy been and why is he writing a virtual blog article...

Posted by mistersquid on April 19, 2006 1:34 AM