I suppose one can “rationalize” the civilian deaths as the unavoidable cost of waging war against a cruel tyrant. I suppose one can “rationalize” the destruction of social structures and life-saving infrastructure as part of the necessary “rebuilding” process. I suppose one can “rationalize” putting a higher priority on “securing oil fields” than on protecting […]
My level of irritation with Word X is in direct proportion to the utter lack of attention paid to small, yet essential details. A constant source of annoyance today: I (and other people) often use tables for page layout purposes. This means that our table cells can be quite big and contain many paragraphs of […]
Apple has just released a new beta of Safari (only via Software UPDATE for now) — and it’s a must-have. (It works under Mac OS X 10.2.3, in case you have yet to upgrade to a more recent version.) As expected, tabbed browsing is there, and it works great. Safari also has an AutoFill feature, […]
J’attendais avec impatience le premier article de presse qui ferait le lien évident entre la façon dont nous vivons cette nouvelle guerre en Irak par “journalistes intégrés” interposés et les mésaventures de Fabrice sur le champ de bataille de Waterloo dans La Chartreuse de Parme. Eh bien voilà, à compter du 13 avril, c’est fait: […]
There is little that’s more grating in Word X (and previous versions, of course) than these automatic behaviours that cannot be turned off. One of them is this stupid behaviour where the paragraph ruler automatically slides out of the top of the window whenever the cursor happens to be near the top. This behaviour is […]
It was not pretty but… the result is here. Third final in a row. The double is still on. Sheffield United definitely gave a good run for the money… but were ultimately punished for lack of the finishing touch. That’s what happens, unfortunately, when the total of your players’ salaries is 1/80th of the opposite […]
I guess there was really no other possible outcome… It was still disappointing to see Newcastle crumble so easily under the feet of the Ferguson machine. The only (very minor) relief is that they got a goal back towards the end and managed to reduce the goal difference to 4… Still not very useful considering […]
While I love Safari and it’s most definitely my browser of choice, there is one nagging problem that I hope — but am not too optimistic — that Apple will fix. The problem, I suspect, mostly affects those who, like me, are on a slow Internet connection by modem. (What else is new?) Often times […]
“U.S.-Backed Shiite Cleric Killed at Shrine in Najaf” by Craig Smith, The New York Times A prominent Islamic cleric, newly returned from exile and cooperating with the American forces that are nominally in control of this city, was killed today by an angry mob at one of Shiite Islam’s holiest shrines.
Another one to add to the list of things that really shouldn’t happen in a mature operating system. Twice in the past few weeks it has happened to me: My computer wakes up from sleep (either deep sleep or regular sleep) and everything is working fine, except that… the mouse pointer has become invisible. The […]
Thomas Friedman brings some well-needed words of moderation: “Hold Your Applause” by Thomas Friedman, The New York Times We are so caught up with our own story of “America’s liberation of Iraq,” and the Arab TV networks are so caught up with their own story of “America’s occupation of Iraq,” that everyone seems to have […]
Looks like Mac OS X 10.2.5 is out now (through Software UPDATE — should be available as a standalone download some time soon). This is good news, as I’ve had to deinstall 10.2.4 and return to 10.2.3 due to too many problems (both potential and real). Weird thing, though, is when I checked for updates […]
On the whole, I’m pretty pleased with Radio UserLand as a blogging tool. For the most part, it just works, and its limitations are not too annoying at this point. (I’d like to be able to handle comments locally on my server, and I’d like to have a proper server-based search engine on my own […]
Who ever came up at Microsoft with the idea that, by default, cross-referential fields inserted in Word documents should be “live” and behave like hyperText links when one clicks on them. It makes editing them a horrible pain in the neck. You have existing Word documents in which you need to edit the field or […]
Try the following: open a document in Word X open the Spell Checker window in Word X using the “Spelling…” command in the “Tools” menu switch to another program, such as Safari, and open a window in that other program click on the Word document window in the background to switch back to Word The […]