Memnison Journal

What I can mention is that the New Year’s Party was a good time, though a little frazzling.    I also spent a good deal of the day in the library with Rich Rostrom, who stayed over and was helping me with getting all of my stuff out of the closet under the stairs in the [...]

Actually, it’s pretty bone dry in the basement, and just laying out the stuff so it can rapidly dry seems to be making a LOT of headway.  Yeah, it’s not going to be as neat to store, but the entire idea was to scan the suckers and pitch them afterwards, so that the only copy [...]

Toshiba’s getting out half-terabyte solid-state drives (designed for laptop use…)

Mere’s top wish for Christmas is a Mere-sized laptop, Ubuntu Linux only, please.   We know that her own laptop is something that she’s wanted for a while; the PC she ‘owns’ is my old one, and it’s a little slow in spots.  I’m not sure if we could gas it up with some RAM and [...]

Today was Mere’s ‘family’ birthday party out at her great-aunt Marlyce’s house in Elgin, and we moved the time up somewhat because of the weather; it was getting slick and messy from sleet and snow.   And also, it looks like Mere is coming down with a cold.  She came home, and moaned and crashed very [...]

There’s been a big push here to organize the tons of CDs and DVDs in the house that are home-made - DVDs off of the TiVo, of course, are the big item, but there’s a ton of outdated software stuff around, and I’m tired of scratching for things when I need them.
All of the software [...]

My Ubuntu side of my main computer has not been working right since I upgraded to 8.10; there’s some sort of problem with the nvidia drivers, and it wants to drop everything down to 640 by 480.  I feel like I’m running a Fisher-Price PC.  Need some time to work that out.
By the way, I’m [...]

Let’s just say that the best of us get caught sometimes, and leave it at that.  Virus nailed my computer Thursday  in the late morning, and I spent an enormous amount of time nailing the SOB.  (One advantage of dual boot is that you can go over to the Ubuntu side and nail files that [...]

Does anyone here have any recommendations on software that writes out documents by voice commands?  No Mac-only software, please.  I can handle Ubuntu Linux or WinXP.

Yes, I will be at Windycon over the weekend.  I’ll be not-very-mobile. I’ll probably locate a prime lurking post and hang there a lot.  Mere will be with me.
The docs took out the last of the foot stitches, and the wound has come open again, about an inch worth.  The docs and Susan are [...]

Frustration rant inside.  You are warned.  No politics, some job, some computer, some medical.
Also, happy birthday to LJ:quietdarkness!

My main computer (the one on my desktop) has been giving me fits for a number of reasons, one big one being storage space - and the lack of it.  I have too much stuff, and one drive that was supposed to be an archive drive has been giving me fits along the lines of [...]

The Foxmarks crew says that they’re hyped to go after a port of Foxmarks to Google Chrome.  Ooooooooh!

Case Number one: I have been having all sorts of burning problems for a while.  I’m an absolute rat bahstahd about backup stuff, and first the old burner coughed and choked over any media I put in it, getting picky to the point of unusability.  Replaced it with a new Sony DRU-180A.  After a while, [...]

Very interesting new browser, just released from Google.  I use a lot of Google stuff, and I was impressed with the speed and reliability of the thing.  It doesn’t have a Linux version yet, unfortunately.
I generally hate and despise Internet Explorer as clunky; I have found again and again that ‘The Microsoft Way’ is clunky [...]