February 2009 Entries
E-mail is text, possibly with links and multimedia attachments such as photos. It’s entirely beyond my understanding why this is a problem for most people: I get plenty of e-mail bloated up with HTML and CSS, including some that use such offbeat color schemes (Yellow on hot pink? I’m expected to be able to read that?) that I usually end up copy-and-pasting the message contents into Notepad to read them.
Someone apparently had the bright idea to include stationery in e-mail. This goes a few steps beyond letterhead – they can range from a gradient on the side to a frowning...
I recently got back from a week’s vacation in Europe (to Antony: the trip cost less than your iMac, MacBook Pro, or PowerMac G4), but I’m not in the mood to talk about that just yet. Later this week, when I’ve mostly recovered from jet lag, I’ll give a better description. I can say now that I took 1157 photos and a bit over 110 minutes of video.
My replacement screen came in the mail while I was away, so naturally within two hours of getting home I tried it out. It turns out the seller actually gave me an XGA...
I’ve been mentioning for awhile now that the number of lines down my laptop’s screen has been on the rise. My original intention was to wait until the new school year to replace the screen, though with the appearance of a tenth line earlier this week, that became somewhat prohibitive to my ability to actually operate the laptop without an external monitor attached.
Perhaps by some interesting coincidence, I happened to be talking to Andrew about horizontal lines through the screen of a digital camera, and decided to give eBay another search for a replacement laptop screen. Though my searches for...