I’ve been doing quite a bit of knitting lately. This is especially nice for cold days like we’re having right now, when all I really want to do is sit on the couch in the warm. It feels less lazy this way!
Right now I’m making Ziggy from this pattern by Clare Taylor, which is both super easy and hell cute. I also recently made:
There have been some scarves and beanies too. Tis the season, and all that.
Anyway blah blah blah, you’ll find me on ravelry as raena. But only if you have an invite!
Hello Adobe,
Yes, we all know how special and wondrous CS 3 is. We also know that if you’re serious about design etc then you’ll be using a Creative Suite and not some $30 piece of shareware, which is fine and fair enough too.
That DOESN’T make it OK for you and your hubris to impose an obnoxious, 45-minutes-plus installation procedure on me for every freaking update, especially when you irrationally insist I need to close Safari for a tiny update to Version Cue (what the fuck for?). I actually NEED to have my browser open all day. Being an asshole just because there’s no one else to compete with you isn’t cool, mang.
No love,
Raena.
Reasons I put up with Twitter:
Reasons why I should not put up with Twitter
That is all.
stilgherrian: Excellent. The smell of cat’s piss is NOT coming from the file server. Problem scales down appropriately.
thats my Al pal!
Everyone by now can recognise the determined individuality of an Al Young painting. Dense visual information. Movement and spontaneity. Improvisation. Jarring colours. Marks so crudely applied as to be of a child’s hand.
— stock
I got a new Toshiba Portege a few weeks ago, the first machine I’ve owned that came with a fingerprint sensor. At first the system seemed to have been designed in a sensible way. The fingerprint template is encrypted and stays local. It is never released or stored in a remote database. I decided to try it out - to experience what it ”felt like”.
A couple of days later, I was at a conference and on stage under pretty bright lights. Glancing down at my shiny new computer, I saw what looked unmistakably like a fingerprint on my laptop’s right mouse button. Then it occurred to me that the fingerprint sensor was only a quarter of an inch from what seemed to be a perfect image of my fingerprint. How secure is that?
Uh, oops?
pureCaffeine: People complain about those “disconnected with real life” - 2nd/e-lives etc. Yet nothing of vacant-faced pedestrians off in their own world!
Quoth the Nokia Music Store:
Nokia Music does not currently support the Mozilla Firefox (Mac OS X) browser on your operating system
Supported systems are currently Microsoft Windows XP or Vista
Supported browsers on the above systems are currently Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 and above
To find out more information on Nokia Music Store and information about accessing the store through your Nokia devices have a look at the Nseries Music pages
What a short-sighted, stupid thing to do.
It’s 2008. If you still think that restricting your online app to one browser on one operating system is a good idea, you deserve to lose a lot of money.
How lovely, you have a shiny new Mac and I’m sure you’re finding all kinds of wonderful new surprises and things that don’t work the way you expected. So you shoot your mouth off at work/on a blog/on twitter/something else about how such-and-such is broken or doesn’t work or whatever.
Let me let you in on a little secret here. And I can tell you this from long experience, because I’ve been using Macs now for more than half my life. There are plenty of us Mac folk out there who have been using a Mac for ages. So if one of us offers some help, then we do know what we are talking about and it probably is because you’re doing it wrong.
We are trying to be helpful. Therefore:
Listening