I’ve been running the same copy of Microsoft Office for years. Good old Mac Migration Assistant moves everything over nicely whenever I get a new machine. For years, as long as I can remember, every time I open MS Word, a popup dialog box tells me that “An unexpected error occurred while trying to load [...]

Man, isn’t it nice when your inbox shows only one message? This won’t last long, I’m sure.

Had to call the cable company this morning. Even though I’ve gotten pretty good at telling them exactly what to do, almost to the point where I might as well have designed and built their damn intranet software, I still find it very annoying going through their automated phone menus.

This pretty much says it all. Very well, too. http://theoatmeal.com/comics/design_hell

There’s a meteor shower tonight, the Leonid Meteor Shower (Nov 16th & morning of the 17th). Here’s a bit of info on it. Best viewing is before dawn, but you may be able to see some action just after midnight.

Just found this from The Idea Shower: CSS Text Wrapper. It lets you wrap text around non-rectangular objects, which is usually undoable in HTML.

Week or two ago, we got onto the subject of bands that people typically follow around on tour. You know these bands: Grateful Dead, Phish, Widespread Panic, etc. I used the term “followable band,” then realized that it’s kind of a challenging tongue twister. Say it aloud to yourself a few times. Ridiculous sounding, don’t [...]

When I was a kid in fifth grade elementary school, we went on a field trip to a place called Enterprise Village. Enterprise Village was a phony shopping mall, where kids would ‘work’ like adults did. For example, my job was to be the manager at Paragon cable, the local cable company (Paragon, and many [...]