A college student wrote in to Picnik asking for general advice about how to create a similar project for school. After reminding him that we’ve had a team of people working on Picnik for several years, and tossing a few book recommendations his way, I closed with this advice:
Overall I think the best way [...]
I’m writing this blog post while running Ubuntu! The migration is now (more or less) complete and it had some delights and some frustrations.
After spending a bunch of time trying, unsuccessfully, to re-partition my hard disk I decided to throw in the towel and just start from scratch with a complete overwrite. To my surprise, [...]
Today I started preparations to convert my main computer over to linux. Ubuntu, specifically. This computer had become too slow and unstable and I figured if I was going to have to re-install Windows anyway, I might as well take the opportunity to make the conversion.
It turns out my leap won’t be [...]
Here’s a weird one: changing the refresh rate on my monitor here at work makes my mouse noticeably faster. Usually I run at 60Hz, but to deal with some hardware issues I sometimes change to 120Hz. And then my mouse cursor becomes so responsive it’s actually hard to control. Is the mouse software running off [...]
I’m working on a specification document for my new job. I need to draw a diagram showing how various servers communicate with each other. Unfortunately, Word keeps hanging after I get a few boxes done.
I kill Word, submit the error report, and Microsoft tells me to download some updates. Fine. Except now I need to [...]
Kate and I did the server shuffle a few weeks ago. Kate’s desktop computer became our mail/web server, and our web/mail server became a file server, and Kate got a new Mac Mini to use as her desktop computer.
We started setting up the file server yesterday — formatting the old computer and installing Windows XP on [...]