BurningbirdAfter leaving the hard disk recovery process running all night, this morning I decided that a better bet would be just to reformat the hard drive and start fresh. After installing the OS, and running Software Update to ensure I had the newest versions of everything, I reinstalled PicturePerfect, Adobe Photoshop CS, my Dimage software […]
I sometimes think that a poet is really a frustrated engineer. Or is it, an engineer is a frustrated poet? Researching what kind of metadata one could capture about a poem, I’ve found that there are a goodly number of rules and restrictions when it comes to poetry. More than I’m aware of from my […]
Tried to upgrade OS on my Mac, and it has failed badly. I’m right now in the middle of running fsck -yf to try and repair the volume, though it seems to be hanging on “Repairing volume” an awfully long time. I’m beginning to worry. I’ll try all the tricks I can and then probably […]
The Apple Store is in the West County Mall, a very upscale and large mall that’s only about twenty minutes away. This was my first time in one of these, and my first reaction was that they must still be moving in. However, I was assured that the white, empty spaces made it easier to […]
A few years back sex was introduced into weblogs in a major way and we went all shivery with anticipation about the freedom we had to explore our sexuality online–through pseudonyms or not, as the case may be. Women incorporated semi-nude glamour shots of themselves into their blog designs; or posted photos of their breasts […]