Average Suburban Housewolf and Game Developer
The friend who’s been staying with us for a couple months now got into a car accident late last night on the way home from work. A semi decided to stop not quite soon enough – got about two inches into my friend’s SUV.
Thank God, he’s not seriously injured. However it has severely aggravated an old back injury.
With any other opponent it would just have been a fenderbender, but with a semi involved even a tap is huge. I figure we replace the back hatch door and the car will prolly be fine.
For months now I’ve been having serious trouble with my Belkin router dropping my net connection. After some research Friday, I finally bought a new one. This time I went with Netgear.
It’s working rather well actually. I can finally get net connection in all parts of my house, without difficulty. Took me a bit to get it working, because I thought it was failing. Turns out there seems to be some trouble with my Server machine getting overloaded, but it might just not be bandwidth limited anymore, so now having trouble keeping up. After turning off a few things, seems good.
Right now I have a friend staying with us, and he’s using my computers for various normal tasks.
He’s not a techy kinda guy. However, without instruction, he figured out User switching without difficulty.
That is why I still recommend Macs to people. The hardware is OK, still too expensive, but you have to admit they are easier to use.
It seems difficult for me to write when things are going OK. Really happy? sure. annoying? sure. But just OK, all is fine? difficult. Hasn’t been a great day, hasn’t been a bad day. Just… a day.
However, since I complain so much, it prolly makes sense for me to mark ‘this was an OK day’.
So there it is.
I’m calling out HP on this one. All I want to do is scan some documents from an all-in-one printer through Adobe Acroboat so it’ll OCR it. Simple enough.
Butomgno!
Sure, you can do multiple document scans… and adjust the brightness settings. But then you move to the next page you scanned, change it, change next… Hit Done.
*Every change you made is undone, reset to it’s automatic defaults.*
Do these people even have a QA department?
As a developer I’m appalled at the state of software today. Yet I know I can’t do anything about it. Why? Has nothing to do with my abilities as a developer. Sure I can make good, smart software. But the software industry is deluged with so many crap apps that nobody can find good ones! That there are 101 different ‘review’ sites, and none of them tell the truth, doesn’t make it any easier.