Important Dates Everything happens in a rush. Anniversary of the first date. Valentine's Day. Paul's birthday. My birthday. All within five weeks.
Voice Mail Hell I really, really, really, hate phoning the health insurance company. First I called the number on my card, went through two voice mail menus, waited five minutes and talked to someone who was very nice, but said I had to call another number because another company was responsible for refusing
And the reader said... Now I have comments on my blog entries, or at least, the capacity to have comments. Somebody say something!
The Anglepoise iMac I got my first look at the new iMac today, on the cover of a brochure from Apple. I have to admit, it does bear a certain resemblance to an Anglepoise lamp. But I also got my first extended play with Mac OS X. I never thought I'd
A Round Tuit Finally got around to doing some things I've been meaning to for ages. Changed the vacuum cleaner bag, that's at least a year overdue. Mailed all the stuff stacking up on the dining room table. Boxed and posted the Payday bars, smothered in bubble wrap and
Formatted Paul changed a whole pile of things to access a static runtime config object, and the database format changed. It's five minutes to ten, I dropped Paul off, got the groceries, got a box from Mailboxes Etc to pack the PayDay bars in, transferred the code from desktop
Postini: say bye bye to junk email Words cannot adequately express my feelings on this. My main email address is being protected from junk email and other obnoxiousness by Postini. Incoming email is routed through their servers, viruses are quarantined, junk mail is detained for 14 days. My approved senders list has been stocked with the people
New buttons Made two better buttons with Paul's help. Also decided to change my background colour to the sea green I'd had to start with. Looks better with these buttons, stands out against the Chronicle web site better. Change is good. At least I know how to use
Drive Thru Drive through coffee. Now I've seen everything. There was a big queue of cars at the kiosk on Manchester Road. I have no idea what city it falls in. You drive through Glendale, Rock Hill, and Webster Groves within a few hundred metres.
Powered by... Made a "Powered by Chronicle" button today, for future use. It's quite pretty, uses the same background and lightening as the logo. Came out at 7kb, which is acceptably small. For reasons unknown, the dialog I'm working on refuses to line up the labels