It’s 2008, so I have something like 15 years worth of bookmarks in my browser. I tend them like a garden, move them to new browser platforms, and back them up. Why? I rarely use them. There are a few that are more like convenient shortcuts, like bill-paying, Google Maps, local weather, my county’s library [...]
Entries from October 2008
October 12, 2008
The galaxy in the laundromat
I have taken the quilt from my bed to a commercial laundromat, because once wet from washing, its sodden weight would reduce my home Maytag to rubbish. At the laundromat I put it into a washing machine called a Huebsch Originator, which seems like an odd name for a washing machine. Odder still is the [...]
October 6, 2008
The last Windows machine
I’m done, Microsoft. Finished. I will devote no further fraction of my life to coaxing your awful products to do simple, useful things. Enough. Done.
I recently bought a Dell laptop to replace a years-old Gateway that finally expired. The laptop came with Vista. The laptop would not, for love, money, threats, pleading, or force of [...]
October 1, 2008
It’s obvious to me
Read that headline again. It’s wrought unimaginable havoc on my life.
I have this awful habit of assuming that everyone gets it — or at least draws the same conclusion from things that I do. I realized it today. I was outlining a proposal for improving something that, in its present state, is kind of hard [...]
