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Following Joel Spolsky’s blog entry about how to shut down your Windows machine, Arno Gourdol write about the shutdown features of Max OS X. Both writers keep talking about all of these features that “no one uses” but I think they are forgetting that not every computer user is a writer. For example, at my …
Continue reading “November 29, 2006: Does No One Understand How to Shutdown?”
Joel Spolsky of Joel on Software fame wrote about how Microsoft should eliminate many of their shut down options because turning off your Vista based computer is just too difficult. But each of the options does something specific and to eliminate the different options Joel starts coming up with some pretty ridiculous systems like “eliminate …
Susan arrived last night pretty late. She is staying with us for the week before she moves into her new apartment on the east side of Newark next weekend. Everyone was pretty tired pulling themselves out of bed this morning. Dominica and Susan got right out to work. I started working from home this morning …
Continue reading “November 27, 2006: Back to Life as Usual in Newark”
Today is our last day in Frankfort for Thanksgiving. We slept in a little but not very much. Oreo and Dexter came into the living room and slept on the futon mattress on the floor with Dominica and I. We are their favourite humas to snuggle with. It is extra hard to pull yourself out …
Continue reading “November 26, 2006: Driving Back Down to Newark”
Dominica, Oreo and I slept in as late as we could this morning to recover from the busy Thanksgiving week. That meant that we slept until around nine in the morning which isn’t really all that late. Check out is at eleven so we don’t have a lot of time to pack and get ready …