In addition to Windows Vista, we also have Microsoft Office 2007. I fired up Word, and my first thought was:
Where’s the damn menu bar?!
Hmmm. Obviously I need to play around with it more.
Continue reading about Microsoft Word 2007: first impression
We just got a new box in the house, with Windows Vista Business installed, and I’ve gotten to play around with it a bit.
First impression: Too Much.
Too much eye candy. Sure, Aero is pretty — very pretty — but there’s so much going on that it’s distracting. Visual Overload. Fortunately, there’s a so-called “Classic” theme, [...]
Saw MySpace give the following error pukage this morning. Sheesh.
MySpace is truly the worst website on the Internet. I noticed spam bulletins coming from one of my friend’s accounts today. I went to her page to send her a message to let her know, and lo and behold, I got redirected to this page:
http://login.myspace.cfm.fuseaction.splash.mytoken.76701a26.da3e.44a3a17b.794380e6.com/da3e/index.php
See the screenshot. It’s designed to look like a MySpace login [...]
I just upgraded this site to Wordpress 2.1.3. (Read about my last major upgrade, to 2.0.1, here.) The visual editor appears much improved, so I’m going to play with that for a while.
I’ve also re-enabled comments for the time being. We’ll see what the spam situation looks like in a few days or weeks.
I recently installed McAfee VirusScan 2006 and Personal Firewall Plus 2006. Around this time, I discovered that my ATI video card’s control panel, Catalyst Control Center, stopped functioning: it wouldn’t even open.
It turns out that Catalyst Control Center needs access to the Internet, and Personal Firewall Plus 2006 was blocking it, apparently by default. Click [...]
I reinstalled and updated McAfee VirusScan on my mom’s computer today, and made some annoying discoveries. First, the update functionality is implemented as an ActiveX control. Second, the main interface itself (the SecurityCenter) is also implemented with ActiveX controls, cleverly displayed in a disguised Internet Explorer window.
Now, am I the only one who finds it [...]
I just stumbled upon this “customer spotlight” marketing brochure from TGS which I was involved with a couple of years back:
“HardCopy is a far superior solution for this type of output than the ‘traditional’ method of printing in standard Open Inventor—namely, using a SoOffscreenRenderer to render a bitmap to a file,” says [eengstro] of [eengstro's [...]
I’ve noticed that when I place an em-dash in a post, which is typically represented by two hyphens on the keyboard, WordPress substitutes a single hyphen.
Example:
thought one–thought 2
results in:
thought one–thought 2
But if I add spaces around the –, I get what I want:
thought one — thought 2
results in:
thought one — thought 2
That is a correct [...]