A feeling deep inside.
Oh yeah.
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Archive for the ‘Torture’ Category
10 Mar
Tech support with MindVision Software
I’m having a tech support experience with MindVision Software, so I thought it would be helpful to the company and to their customers to write it up here.
I need an app to create a DMG for my Mac software. So I asked here what to do, and got back several answers, and decided to [...]
2 Mar
Under the Radar Notes
Daily Princetonian: “The trip to the bathroom was actually a break from thesis research, and it occurred just a few minutes after I learned from my reading that credit for the first “blog” is given to someone named Dave Winer, who created his revolutionary web log way back in 1996. Useless as this fact may [...]
24 Feb
It’s their world, not mine
Listening to Art Buchwald on the radio, being interviewed by Diane Rehm. He’s in a hospice, having refused treatment for kidney disease, so he’s dying. It takes a lot of guts to talk with a guy who’s about to die, but what an interview! Wow. Made me think of so many things.
One was a [...]
24 Jan
Comments and the Washington Post
Do you care if the Washington Post has comments?
There are plenty of places to post comments on the web, and lots of ways to find out what people think about articles in the Washington Post.
Frankly I understand what a nightmare it must have been maintaining a centralized cesspool of hate and irrelevant immaturity. Why [...]
23 Jan
How to save a Gmail message?
This should be a real simple thing to do but I can’t figure out how to do it. I have about a dozen messages in my Gmail inbox that I want to save to my local hard disk. How do I do it? I’ve scoured the online help and have come up with nothing. I [...]
11 Jan
The wonderful world of Apple RSS
Here’s an example feed. You can’t read it in Firefox, and I haven’t been able to get NewsRiver to read it. They must look at the User-Agent header and only return if it’s their browser. Apparently it works with NetNewsWire. What are they doing at Apple?
Well, it’s not a User-Agent thing, it’s looking for [...]
10 Jan
Twas the Night Before MacWorld…
“Twas the night before MacWorld, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse!”
This is kind of a big day for me, and an even bigger day for a young (nameless) friend of mine, because we’re both likely to get new laptops before the end of the week, if Santa [...]
