I’ve got another self-induced problem with my PC, which I’m going to document here in case you have the same problem and don’t realize where it comes from. Occasionally, Windows XP hangs while booting, at the [ Applying computer settings… ] messagebox. Now, for me at least, the explanation has some background. This is my […]
Catch a (new) wave and you’re sitting on top of the world
Curt’s writing about goals, why we work, in Money or Meaning, and says “I call the first ten years out of college the incubation period.” That sounds about right to me. There’s a line in Step Into Liquid, and on the soundtrack CD, that resonates every time I hear it. Gerry Lopez is talking about […]
Armada M700 Battery Problems
Wowzers, here’s something unusual! I’m at Starbucks this morning, which isn’t really all that strange. The bizarre part is that I’ve got wireless access and a live laptop. This is a four year-old Compaq laptop; I’ve replaced the batteries more times than I can count (I think laptop vendors count on selling batteries, like Gillette […]
On Photo Retouching, Again
3/16: “I wonder how long it’ll be until judges and juries are overly suspicious of any photo, audio or video recording brought into court – if they’re not already.” Steve Crandall: The next big thing may be wrestling with the impact of several million photoshop artists. It may be that independent cooberation of photos (several […]
Quote This
Simon Willison on valid XHTML You can’t put a blockquote inside a paragraph, but you can (and indeed should) put a paragraph inside a blockquote.” Ouch, I’m embarrassed by how long I’ve been getting that wrong.
Outlook 2003 – Insert Signature
Matthew E. sent me a nice e-mail message to say that he’d been “searching for 2 hours trying to figure out how to turn on the ability to insert a signature in Outlook 2003” and finally found the solution in a comment I’d left on Mike’s site. I’m glad it helped. Hopefully this will make […]
Be Careful With Those Discs
I thought I’d written about this before, but a quick search doesn’t find it. If you’re someone who archives photos, music, or other data to CD or DVD for long-term storage, be sure to read through the NIST report on Care and Handling Guide for the Preservation of CDs and DVDs, or at the very […]
On Online Forums
Josh L. at Microsoft has been doing some investigation into online forums – what makes them successful or not – and has collected the results so far into an excellent post entitled MVP Summit Views and Issues with Threaded Discussions. His findings include a couple of items, including one that I’d guess would surprise most. […]
On Photo Retouching
Tim Bray is reading Photoshop Elements for Digital Photographers by Scott Kelby, which I’ve been looking at as well, and observes that “integrity is history. The image is no longer the capture of a instant’s light and colour, it’s, well… whatever you and Photoshop make of it.” The ‘art’ of photo retouching is a lot […]
OS X Hints for Windows Users
Ok, I’ve got some answers to some Mac questions that were bothering me. We can just make today Mac OS X Hints for Windows Users day, perhaps the first of several. Is there a way to lock the desktop? When I leave my desk, I’m supposed to lock the system – Control-Alt-Delete, then Lock Computer […]