Today I got a little further than halfway through Mac OS X: The Missing Manual, taking notes furiously the whole way. God rain blessings upon PocketNotes for making that possible. While I got annoyed at discovering its incapability to export text, and its interface is a bit rougher around the edges than I'd like, it's still the best outliner I've ( Read more... )

My insurance company killed my policy due to non-payment. Fortunately, I called within the reinstatement-on-payment grace period, but that's not going to happen before tonight or tomorrow morning, when I am supposed to go up north to my own personal Grey Havens for a few days ( Read more... )

This morning my bank, bless them, forced me to own up to the fact that I have several entities who'd like money from me but who have no idea how to contact me anymore. Part of that horrible move last month involved having no address for a while (foolish; I should have at least set up forwarding to my parents' or something (but maybe the idea didn't ( Read more... )