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Odds and ends: Palm trees, HP touch panels

Some stuff I need to do… Finish reading Zuckerman’s Paper Guide Finish reading Judges and Samson Agonistes Put RealVNC on my flash drive I still need to blog about Men’s Retreat last weekend, and the Google Open House last week. I wonder if I’ll get my dream job at Google. I hope I expressed enough…Continue Reading…

Adobe Acrobat Update Manager stinks

Yesterday I posted about how great Firefox’s upgrade procedure is. Today, I want to contrast that with an “Update Manager” that’s really terrible. It’s the Adobe Acrobat Update Manager, which for the last few days has wanted to upgrade Acrobat to 7.0.6, 7.0.7, 7.0.8, 7.0.9 Standard. It looks like it could happen all at the…Continue Reading…

Firefox 2.0.0.2 Change Log

When I fired up Firefox this evening, it installed a new update and brought me to this page. It was a very good and problem-free upgrade experience. It’s nice to see Firefox keeping on top of things, where Internet Explorer doesn’t. What’s New in Firefox 2.0.0.2 Release Date: February 23, 2007 Security Update: The following…Continue Reading…

History of Manuscript Discovery

Letter from Paul Byer, the USC graduate who is the originator of the inductive method of scripture study.

Highlight and backspace doesn’t work – Microsoft Word

My roommate just had this problem with Microsoft Word 2003, and I found the fix using the Google search engine. Here’s what you do: Tools -> Options -> Edit Check “Typing Replaces Selection” That’s all my roommate had to do. For the sake of completeness, the fix also says: Tools -> Options -> General Uncheck…Continue Reading…

Plural of axis

Axes is a heteronym, the plural of both axis and axe.