BurningbirdRecovered from the Wayback Machine. Earlier, in response to designer demands for programmers to be more responsive to users, I wrote a post titled Open Source is Like Sex. In it I said that the users need to think about being less passive–to meet the techs half way. Of course, when the users say, “Come on […]
Maria could be describing my day when she writes: I love days like today, when everything seems to be well padded in mist and torpor. The leaf blowers are silent, no one is out there improving their house or garden, and with the windows closed, for all I know, cars have ceased to flow on the […]
If I were a betting woman, I would bet that WordPress 1.3 (or would it be 2.0?) is releasing sooner rather than later. At least it looks that way from the code, though the developers are going back and forth on a couple of items. Even though I plan on doing my own development from […]
After 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 […]
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 […]