Well, BLOGDESK doesn’t allow me to tag my Jasper Jottings posts with class year. I’d have to go into the blog on WordPress to add them. That’s too much like work. Soooo, maybe there’s a better tool?
WLW is slow in keyboard response.
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SOFTWARE: Back trying Window Live Writer again
Sunday, May 18, 2008
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WINXP: Lugable takes a holiday
Sunday, May 4, 2008Thursday night, actually Friday wee hours, I couldn’t sleep; so I pounded out several reams of my best prose. It tired me out so I went back to bed. All happy and ready to sleep.
Friday 6AM, I close the lid and go to work. Like I’ve done for what feels like eons. I open up at work and screens black. No power. SO I power up and pouf the data fairy has taken that stuff and sent it to the bit bucket.
I wriggled on that hook for the day. Off and on. It was gone.
Mozy has been spinning cycles but it’s crap.
So I’m screwed … again. BY microsoft’s ‘productivity’ software.
If I ever buy another microdots product, kick me.
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LINKEDIN: Old messages appear ‘gone’
Friday, April 25, 2008I’m a paying customer of LinkedIn. (Not that that seems to matter much.)
I send a few emails to folks from time to time in support of their jobsearch efforts. (Offer help, cite some resources, give a few urls, and wish them bona fortuna.) I used to just call up an old one and steal the usual passages. Then, customize a little and shoot it off. LinkedIn doesn’t offer drafts or templates.
When I went to do that, (I guess for the first time since the redesign.) SHAZAAM, there not where they used to be.
Maybe they’ve just moved?
I read the LinkedIn faqs and it looks like they went to the bit bucket.
Argh!!
Copying an email to yourself isn’t even a future workaround because the email is kept in the LinkedIn playpen.
Sooo, ti seems like you have to cut and paste an email to yourself to compensate.
Arghh!
So I shot this off to “Customer Service”: (BY THE WAY, did anyone notice that ‘customer service’ is now a new and different domain from LinkedIn? That is ‘linkedin.custhelp.com’! Outsourced to a vendor in India maybe?)
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I used to be able to see my old messages that I wrote, received archived, invitations and such. Since the redesign, I can’t find any of that. Are they now gone?
It would have been nice to give a ‘head’s up’. So I could have saved them. As a paying customer, I don’t expect surprises. If I was a freeloader, I’d have less of a squawk.
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Upon submitting, you have to put in contact information? Interesting. This leads credence to the ‘outsourced customer service’ impression. Why would they need that input again?
Argh!
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McBookaire: Time Capsule now on the home network
Wednesday, April 23, 2008Brought the “time capsule” home. Took a few manual ‘press and hold for 10 seconds’ to finally convince it to connect to my home wireless network.
Yeah!
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McBookaire: First Time Warp (oh, Time Machine) Back Up took 4 hours
Wednesday, April 23, 2008The first backup, which I had read takes a while, did.
Four Hours?
What was it writing records with a quill pen?
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McBookaire: Time Machine fun
Wednesday, April 23, 2008Fired up the Time machine.
It REQUIRES an inet connection to configure. Or at least I couldn’t figure out how to make it work without one.
It’s backing up MBA as we speak. Feels like about four hours.
Haven’t figured out where to keep the Time Machine — home or at work?
Haven’t figured out how to eject the disk from the ‘MacBookAir Super Drive’ (an external cd drive with a twenty page limited warranty in five languages AND a four page ‘user manual’ with one page of pictures and two pages of ‘regulatory information’ and one sentence of documentation)
“Attach the MacBook Air SuperDrive directly to your MacBook Air.” in five languages of course.
No word how to eject the disk, the drive, or the usb cable. (I’ll wait till I power down.) No idea if you can put it on a usb hub between it and MBA!
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MCBookAire: Enterprise WEP Leap? Not easy
Tuesday, April 8, 2008Well after two days of playing with McBa at work, I haven’t been able to get it to connect to the corporate LAN. (It is permitted security policy wise!) But, if the McBookAir supports Enterprise WEP with LEAP, it’s not obvious to me.
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McBookaire: Having some trouble with wireless at work
Monday, April 7, 2008Connects flawlessly to my home wireless network. At work, not so good. Does it support enterprise wep leap?
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McBookaire: Serial numbers
Sunday, April 6, 2008So far, I’m pleased with ‘being Martha’ (i.e., maing an extragent purchase like the McBookAir. It’s totally quiet. No heat. And, appears to run for hours between charges. Although a recharge seem to take longer than I expected. Like sipping thru a narrow straw? Keyboard is excellent. Except it’s no WIndows or XPS lay out. I’ll have to get used to it. I’ve got mail and wp working, no sweat. But I have hit my first gripe.
Serial numbers!
Come on guys could you possibly make them longer or in a smaller font?
I’d have preferred that you allow them to be automagic.
The experiment continues!
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McBookaire: The adventure begins
Saturday, April 5, 2008McBa is all powered up and ready for “productivity”.
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