Archive for January, 2009

Annoying Firefox problem fixed

Tuesday, January 27th, 2009

For the last couple of months, I've had an incredibly annoying problem in Firefox, when entering text into text boxes: the cursor would disappear, the text box would appear to lock up, and I'd have to click inside the text box to resume typing. Often, too, I'd hit the Backspace ...

Assorted links

Monday, January 19th, 2009

Image via Wikipedia Doomsday for 2009 is ... Saturday. Mary Ellen Bates says goodbye to several Google apps, and ponders Microsoft's persistent relevance. I'll miss Google Notebook, myself. Better ways to run a workshop. And some damn fine YouTube examples of Patrick McGoohan at work. Chris Blattman summarizes Rapture indicators from ...

What’s ahead for ol’ Mikey?

Sunday, January 11th, 2009

Inspired by Rani’s post about her upcoming work (hope that’s going well for you, Rani), it’s probably a good idea for me to look at the months ahead. The spring semester starts tomorrow. I’m spending today cleaning up my office, recycling pages and pages of article printouts, putting away the CDs ...