The family visit went pretty well this year. And aside from some incompetence at the border on the way back, the trip itself was painless.
We got up there a couple days before Pesach, rather than zipping ( Read more... )

I recently bought Trope Trainer (Kinnor Software Inc) to help me learn torah portions. I'm learning my first one with it now. It's great! ( allow me to be more specific... )

...a tool that will let me banish Outlook from my desktop once and for all.

I'm using Outlook at work through historical happenstance, even though I know it's hell-spawn and I've never actually liked it. I would like to switch to pine, a mailer that I know, like, and trust not to inflict virii and gratuitous HTML and similar crap upon me. The ( Read more... )

Somebody finally wrote a plugin for Outlook to get rid of HTML infestations from incoming email. If you're stuck using Outlook, this should substantially cut down on your virus exposure.

I'm not very photogenic (massive understatement), and I don't actually have all that many pictures of myself. The ones I do have tend to be group shots, like the one I'm currently using for my default. I'd like to be able to do some simple tweaking to -- in this case -- edit out the shoulder of the next person over and maybe replace it with more ( Read more... )

Word is not my choice of word-processing software. (The magnitude of that statement is comparable to that of "pork chops are not my choice of meal".) But sometimes I need to edit a document that someone else wrote, and 90% of the time it's in Word ( Read more... )