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Fixing family computers

Wednesday, December 29th, 2004

Gina Trapani wrote about fixing her mom’s computer. In my case, it applies to my brothers’ computers, as my mom actually runs Linux.
A few days correcting Windows XP’s mistakes — like first not allowing downloads from any application, then secondly accidently eating the partition it resides upon (which had crucial information with no backups) [...]

Pac-Mondrian

Tuesday, December 28th, 2004

Play with art: Pac-Mondrian.

The weather up north seems frightful

Tuesday, December 28th, 2004

Down here in Georgia, the weather has been slightly chilly and quite rainy. From what I’ve seen from the Weather Channel and elsewhere, the whole East coast north of this state (from South Carolina on up) has recieved a huge winter storm, however. Lots of ice, sleet, and snow has covered up everything, [...]

I’m dreaming of a wet Christmas…

Saturday, December 25th, 2004

The forecast for Cambridge calls for snow this Christmas. I’m not in the Northeast, however.
Over southern Georgia, year after year, the atmostphere wishes for a snowstorm. Temperatures near the land have a different thing in mind and typically tease the residents with a not-cold-enough — yet chilly nonetheless — briskness causing [...]

Industrial theme ver. 1.0.11 for Firefox

Tuesday, December 21st, 2004

I’ve addressed several requests; modified icons, and fixed the right-mouse-button click on download dialog crash in the most recent version of the Industrial theme for Firefox. Enjoy!
Update: I have fixed the install.rdf within the theme so that it states the correct version. Sorry about that! (:

Utah ‘04 wrap-up

Sunday, December 19th, 2004

I’ve been in Utah for the past week-and-some-days on a work-related trip. Today, I’m flying back to Massachusetts
Things done while in Utah:
# Met a lot of great people in the Provo office.
# Also met Ryan and Josh, from #photography (and elsewhere)
# Went on a few photo trips with Ryan and Josh
# Hung out with [...]

Firefox in the New York Times!

Thursday, December 16th, 2004

Today’s the day that the Firefox ad is in the New York Times.
It’s great to see the ad finally — and it even seems (at least according to the PDF so far) they even spelled my name correctly. (: