I’ve heard that this time of season is the most depressing for a lot of people, and while I believed it, I’ve never had a bad time during December. That is, until now. Can I list all the things that were wrong? I was partly sick from Thanksgiving to maybe a week ago. Mostly it [...]
so this is Christmas
Monday, December 28th, 2009
fudgetastic (Adobe CS4 woes)
Thursday, March 5th, 2009
Final update on the Adobe CS4 drama. I checked Dell’s support site (what a novel idea) for the Stop 7E error and someone mentioned running a Diagnostic test to find out if any parts of the computer were faulty. Ran the test, got “Error code 0F00:2871 Optical drive BIST—FLASH ROM test failed.” Checked Dell’s support [...]
frustrating as fudgetaffy
Wednesday, March 4th, 2009
Me: *walks into a dark and smoky room* ??: *chair swivels around and in it…* Me: So we meet again, Adobe. Adobe: *laughs mercilessly* I bought Adobe CS4 Design Standard today. Almost 500 buckaroonies (got a student version). I was hesitant about spending that much money, but … Adobe shininess! And after I leave school, [...]
blurred vision
Thursday, February 12th, 2009
I’ve figured out why it’s hard for me to look at my desktop monitor. It’s a 20″ widescreen monitor, native 1680×1050, but the text is way too freakin’ small for me at that size. So I’ve got it down to 1440×900, a setting lower. However, while text is at a good size for me, it [...]
byebye, FontExplorer X
Sunday, January 25th, 2009
I installed FontExplorer X (herein referred to as “FEX” ’cause I don’t wanna type it out) almost two years ago. I did like the program while I was using it. FEX just doesn’t fit into my current computer environment right now. Pros: I guess programs opened up a microsecond faster than usual. I don’t have [...]