The Linux server in the basement crashed Saturday, and after some diagnosis, it turned out to be a failed 500 GB internal hard disk. The drive was the “backup” disk for the two 250 GB data disks in the Linux server, our two MacBooks, my desktop Mac, as well as for a variety of [...]

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I don’t intend for my blog to turn into a review of other blogs, but this one I just have to mention. I recently came across the Smashing Magazine “blog” while looking for some help with web design. The site has an incredible depth of information on web site design — an area [...]

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For the past few weeks I’ve been teaching myself how to program in Ruby and Rails. Given that it’s hyped as “web development that doesn’t hurt” and is supposed to be easy to learn, I’ve been having more trouble than I expected. Two years ago I learned PHP in a week or so, [...]

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I’ve been a Firefox user… for as long as I can remember. It started because I was a Windows user, and FF was vastly better than Internet Explorer (and still is). Since switching to Mac about two years ago, I’ve stayed with Firefox. I gave Apple’s Safari browser a few tries now [...]

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Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac is finished. They’re pressing CDs now and will begin shipping in mid-January. I’ve been looking forward to this release for a while, mainly because everyone else in the universe uses Office, so if I want to (successfully) view their documents, and have them view mine, I need to [...]

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