Finally: Windows 8
For my New Year’s Eve festivities this year, I decided to stay home and try to finally get my Windows 8 install done on my desktop PC. After some more […]
2014
some random apps
I’ve been trying to be careful about how many iOS apps I buy and/or download, since I’ve gotten to the point where I have a fairly ridiculous number of them […]
trying again, with my desktop PC
I purchased my current desktop PC back in 2010. And my last serious effort to upgrade it to Windows 8 was in 2012. I’ve never done any upgrading on this […]
Spirit Gate by Kate Elliott
Spirit Gate by Kate Elliott My rating: 3 of 5 stars It took me quite a while to finish this book. In fact, I think it may be the only […]
Dynamics AX silliness
How’s this for a post title? Compare Tool causing a failure, forcing an element restore which results in negating the changes made on the element Yes, in Dynamics AX, the […]
Dinah and other WordPress stuff
Well, I just updated this blog to WordPress 4.1 “Dinah”. So far, so good. The new distraction-free writing thing is kind of cool. I’ll probably leave it turned on. Other […]
Poor old RPI
This article from Vice News does a pretty good job of showing how my old alma mater, RPI, has become an almost perfect example of all the things that have […]
Evernote on Yosemite
My favorite bullet point from the release notes for the newest version of Evernote for Mac OS X: “Improved toolbar icon visibility.” Honestly, it’s still a little too “light grey […]
Farewell, Dr. Dobb’s
Sad to see that Dr. Dobb’s is getting shut down. I had a subscription to the old print magazine for many years. They had some great, useful, well-written articles and […]
WordPress security woes and Jetpack observations
For anyone who might be wondering: nope, I’m not using the plugin that got hacked today. Also: interesting to see the new stuff in Jetpack 3.3. I only have the […]