All in all this week is off to a good start. I went from a 50 to a 90 in Spanish. It’s amazing how much not having to spell things from memory improved my test score. Unfortunately, the midterm will likely be back to the old style. Tonight we had the second NSAC meeting and [...]
Have you ever had one of those nights where you want to sleep but your mind has other ideas? It’s been a long day, you get in bed, close your eyes and bam! your mind jumps into overdrive spewing every last random thought it can generate. Is 2 A.M. really the time you need to [...]
If you are going to use displays [what you might commonly call TVs] for menus or to display other forms of dynamic information in a retail, theme park, public transportation center, theater or other publicly accessible area you need to choose the right type of display. If you don’t, it looks sloppy. Plus you’ll make me grouchy…and [...]
Addicted? Most likely. You see, it started with Flickr back in 2004. www.flickr.com Go to tom.arthur’s photostream It continued [in no particular order] with places like Vimmeo, Blogger, Twitter, Yelp, Google Reader, YouTube, Pandora, Last FM, Facebook, BrightKite, Myspace, Fuelly, Mint, Vox, Delicious, WordPress, Tumblr, LinkedIN, Loopt (Microsoft Maps, ick), Boxee, ChaCha,Wufoo, Gyminee, Daytum, GrandCentral [...]
Did you know you can check the up-time [wikipedia: a measure of the time a computer system has been "up" and running] of your Mac? There are a billion different ways to check but an easy one is to open terminal and type ‘uptime’. My computer, for example, has been up 17 days. 17 days! Why in the world would I leave my computer [...]
I can’t get images to behave. It is ignoring pagebreaks and every other which way of centering the image and turning text wrap off. Ugh. But only when an image is involved. As in this is what I don’t want but can’t get rid of. Ugh! Text doesn’t go here! Or here. Or here. Or [...]
