I'm pretty excited about this script I am working on. It should reduce the time it takes us to convert a test by half! (Our layout editor works overtime converting tests... with that kind of savings we could shift our focus to much more interesting improvements to layout and graphics.)

I made an executive decision to migrate us from FolderShare to Dropbox. I'm not wild about having our data on someone else's server, but I am satisfied by their privacy / IP policy and can easily keep a backup of the local copy ( Read more... )

I've been using a program called FolderShare at work to help share files between off-site contractors. It's a really great program, because it is dead simple to use as it does P2P file sharing with automatic synchronization through NAT. However, I have had many problems with the Mac client. (Unsurprisingly the Mac client has not been updated ( Read more... )

I wrote this to explain some issues we have been dealing with at work. The short backstory is that we have content formatted with HTML that gets published online and in print. Our customers don't always have the latest and greatest computers so the online delivery has to have low system requirements. The content is transformed into XML for the ( Read more... )

I accidentally blocked achearing on AIM and didn't realize it for several months! This is because she stopped using AIM for a while (long story) and we continued to chat on Yahoo, so I figured she had dropped it altogether. It turned out that I had accidentally clicked the "block" button without realizing it. Part of my work at the office involves ( Read more... )

It's been over THREE WEEKS since I updated LJ. (See userpic for "two weeks" Total Recall reference ( Read more... )

Comcast has a screwy pricing structure where you pay MORE for just internet service than if you get internet + cable TV. I called today to find out about transferring my service from the apartment to the house and they say there is a $20 transfer fee per service. What that means for me is $20 for the internet and $20 for the TV service that I ( Read more... )

It took me a while to figure this out, but for the longest time I've been putting up with my email in Mail.app only having the "date" column displayed. I did some googling to try to figure out how to include the time with the date and couldn't dig anything up. Well, the answer turns out to be much simpler than I anticipated -- in fact, maybe too ( Read more... )

Did you know that all mail sent to username+anything@gmail.com will be delivered to username@gmail.com? I've started to use this to help with transitioning the contact email on some of my online accounts from my old nyx.net address to my gmail address. For example I changed my netflix address to myname+netflix@gmail.com ( Read more... )

One of the many things I hate about Windows is the process management. When Trillian crashes (and it does, and I regret paying for that POS) and I try to end the process with the Windows Task Manager, NOTHING HAPPENS. Even programs which Windows recognizes as crashed ("This application has stopped responding") do not terminate when I click "End ( Read more... )