Category Archives: Software

A freind of mine has an adolescent son with Aspberger’s; something I don’t want to have to imagine. The child said very little until he was three, though he spent a lot of time listening to tapes. Then, one day … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Here is a nice example of technology making things worse. I need to reread the detective novels of Maj Sj Continue reading →

“Google desktop search”:http://desktop.google.com/about.html is obviously wonderful. “Google for the hard disk” is something one has wanted for years. But it’s not wonderful enough to get me using IE, which is the only browser it works with at present. I’m rather … Continue reading → Continue reading →

“Robert X Cringely”:http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20040902.html prepares to flee a hurricane: bq. Given that my personal space in the Town & Country minivan is just enough for a briefcase, here’s what I’m putting in mine. I’m taking my notebook computer so I can … Continue reading → Continue reading →

“Brad Choate’s Textile plugin”:http://bradchoate.com/mt/docs/mtmanual_textile2.html for MT does something that “the real thing”:http://textism.com/tools/textile/index.html can’t: definition lists. == dl. this:should be although:there is no mention of it in the real textile == comes out as dl(sane). this:should be although:there is no mention … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The discussion about text editors made me wonder what more one needs. What should a writer’s word processor do? * Never crash or lose work. * Move and delete words, sentences, and paragraphs. * Transpose letters. * Count words. * … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Do you use Notepad in windows? This one question will establish anyone’s geek factor almost at once. * 80% of the computer using population won’t even understand the question. These people are not geeks at all. In fact it may … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I mean to write more about markets and politics but in the meantime, there are two small software tricks I’ve had to use this week. You must have noticed that most spam now comes in multiple copies, presumably becasue it’s … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Earlier this week I decided to give “Opera’s”:http://www.opera.com mail client a proper go because I was sick of the horrible editor in “the Bat,”:http://www.ritlabs.com/en/products/thebat/ and sick, too, of maintaining a list of about 90 filters for different correspondents which all … Continue reading → Continue reading →

to express my oipinion of CSS positioning rules. All I want is a box with two other boxes inside it, one at each side. This is how the two books on the right are displayed if you are using sensible … Continue reading → Continue reading →