TMTOWTDI

After 5 years (almost to the day) of matrimony, it was time for me to replace my aging (read: dying) late-2006 Macbook Pro with a unibody model. You know it’s time when everything stops working even passably well all at once, even after you’ve done everything possible to breathe new life into the machine (my [...]

I just dialed into a customer’s computer with Copilot to install pdf writing software. I tried printing a web page in Internet Explorer 7 and instead I got 30 pages of HTML. Microsoft’s support site had info on fixing this problem for IE4 and nothing else. After some googling, it turns out the fix was [...]

This post is part of a series I am writing for a class on New Media. Edit: clarified in some places and added more info. I like to be really productive when I work, and I like to know what the heck is going on. At the same time, I am not the best at [...]