Archive for the ‘Housekeeping’ Category

2 VMWare Fusion tips

Friday, November 14th, 2008

I've enjoyed having VMWare Fusion on my MacBook, as it's made the transition from a PC to a Mac easier. Also, since I now have only the MacBook, I'm able to easily duplicate what I had on the old PC and to edit work documents on my copy of Microsoft ...

What I DIDN’T do this summer

Sunday, August 31st, 2008

Create accounts on my MacBook and really get a handle on securing it. Create a custom search engine in Google that would search the sites I tend to read the most: Lifehacker, Marginal Revolution, Kevin Kelly's sites, 43Folders, Web Worker Daily, my delicious bookmarks, Ask Metafilter, etc. I created a custom ...

As within, so without

Thursday, May 8th, 2008

When my mind and life get cluttered, so do my physical environments. When I lived on my own, it was the whole apartment. Now, it's pretty much confined to my home office. But as I celebrate the end of the semester and contemplate what to do with myself this summer, ...

Zero-Grief Policy

Saturday, November 10th, 2007

So I traveled the world only to return home again. I've been looking for a faster, more convenient way to write and post to this blog. I've been struck by several ideas I'd like to comment on but the lack of a lightweight, non-fussy app to do this has vexed me. ...

Another new WP theme

Thursday, October 4th, 2007

I went to plaintext.org, looking for something clean and minimal, and so am trying out the Barthelme template. I figured out that one reason I wasn't posting more often was that I didn't think the Chameleon look was really "my blog" (though I did like the two small administrivia columns ...