because not enough websites start with the letter “Z”
Posted in nerdliness on Jan 18th, 2004
In ten or so years of personal computer ownership I have upgraded operating systems, office productivity tools, development environments, and a host of other applications large and small.
I’ve survived OS/2 Warp and it’s 20 plus diskettes, and made the hike up through Windows 3.1, 3.11, 95, 98, 2000, and XP Professional. I made detours along [...]
Posted in nerdliness on Jan 17th, 2004
Thanks to Inluminent, I now have a full entry RSS feed. Scroll to the very bottom of this page and select the rss 2.0 link and you are in business.
Thanks to John’s generosity I was literally able to copy and paste his template into a new template in my movableType set up. Very cool.
Posted in life, nerdliness on Jan 15th, 2004
This morning I spent an hour or so installing a new wireless router to replace the wired router we have been using since February 2000. The process seemed simple on the surface; unplug the CAT-5 cords and power supply from the old router and drop the new one into place. Access the build in web [...]
Posted in nerdliness on Jan 14th, 2004
Yesterday I upgraded my Powerbook to Panther (10.3.2) in a relatively painless 2 hour process. After the process was completed I was having trouble with my copy of CodeTek’s Virtual Desktop application.
I was using a 2.x version and knew that there was a 3.0 beta out. I went to their site and got the 3.0 [...]
Posted in life on Jan 12th, 2004
This afternoon Michele and I watched “Bruce Almighty” on a rented DVD. While DVDs maybe better than VHS tapes in many regards there is one area of the DVD viewing experience that I could live without.
Forced watching of previews.
This particular DVD forced us to watch previews for not one, not two, but three movies. Repeated [...]
Posted in nerdliness on Jan 11th, 2004
I’ve switched the navigation elements for my site from a vertical list, positioned on the right side of the page to a horizontal navigation bar. I used the List-a-matic web site to find a look and feel I liked, finally settling on Seth’s horizontal list.
I also added a “fieldset” tag around each blog entry, which [...]
Posted in nerdliness on Jan 9th, 2004
I just read an interesting posting which asked the question, “Do you tell your family about your blog?”
The comment I posted on Makiko’s site went like this:
I write about a variety of topics on my site, sometimes intensely personal and other times trivial fluff.
I’ve never openly invited immediate family members to go and read [...]
Posted in nerdliness on Jan 7th, 2004
Posted in nerdliness on Jan 7th, 2004
