Was it someone here or someone on a mailing list who mentioned the free online courses at the HP Learning Center? Whoever it was, thank you. I’ve signed up for several of them. I’ve always been totally overwhelmed by Photoshop.…
Idjits
Okay, I’m the webmaster for Working to Halt Online Abuse. And we provide link banners for people who want to link to the site. We don’t approach anyone about linking, we don’t do reciprocal links—they’re just available. When I first…
Need Some Macintosh Help, Please
The volunteer organization I work with is having everyone use PGP to sign all of their official correspondence. We feel that it’s necessary because someone has altered the content of messages from us, trying to claim that we’re making statements…
Why I Don’t Miss Working Tech Support
So a friend tells me that his email “just won’t work.” Me: “Okay, how does it not work?” Friend: “Um, I don’t know. I just don’t get mail.” Me: “Well, can you try it and tell me what it does?”…
PC Life Cycles
Since some of you might not read Slashdot… http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=7453/ddj0208q/0208q.htm Sam has been howling at this. It’s painfully funny because we’ve lived the whole scale of cruftiness with our PCs.
Movies, Mommying, Miscellany
We watched Galaxy Quest last night. That’s always fun. It’s one of the movies I want to own on DVD, but we sorta need to get a DVD player. Katie is doing her math, then she’s going to finish reading…
Grrrr
Hmph. One of our PCs—the one Sam has been using for writing, and the one with the fastest processor and most RAM—has decided that sometimes she doesn’t have a NIC. It’s integrated into the motherboard, and sometimes she sees it,…
P2P
I want a better Gnutella client. I’m using BearShare at the moment, but it crashes frequently. My wish list is can specify the port it uses more stable saves download list between sessions boolean logic for searches—or at least SOME…
Chat Programs
Last night aladriana clued me in to something I’d been silly about. Most of my chat thingies are set so that only people on my contact list can talk to me because I don’t want IM spam. So LJ people…
Time to Change the Oil
I am officially bored with my website. It’s been static for way too long. Some things just aren’t on my mind as much as they were at one time, others have become more important, I’m sure there are dead links,…