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Making slow progress

February 1st, 2010

After several rounds of comments, leading to what I hope are improvements, resulted in this latest iteration of my blog theme:

Sure, it looks like someone beat up a clown and then vomited on the body, but it’s progress. As before, any comments would be greatly appreciated.

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It’s time to tweak the blog theme

January 31st, 2010

As part of 2010, I’d like to finally move away from my mostly monochromatic color scheme for my blog. However, the problem is … I can’t choose colors to save my life! After some fiddling around last night, these are the colors I ended up with:

Sample screenshot of new theme in progress

It might not be the worst possible colors to pick, but … ugh, even I know they’re ugly. But, I just can’t choose good colors!

Help me! What colors should I use as the palette for my new theme? I really do like the background color and body text colors I chose … but what about a highlight color? And link colors? Let me know what you think I should try, please!

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My shiny new battery (thanks, AppleCare)!

January 25th, 2010

Today, I was able to get my optical disk drive and battery replaced on my 15″ MacBook Pro. The ODD would intermittently fail to write disks. My battery wouldn’t hold more than 1400 mAh at full charge and only had 172 cycles on it.

Here’s what System Profiler says about my new battery:

Oh happy day!

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Those three words you long to hear …

January 21st, 2010

… “PAID IN FULL”.

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Making MacOS X usable without a mouse

January 8th, 2010

I whined about not being able to manipulate modal dialogs without my mouse and one of my friends, Tom R., pointed out how to get OSX to behave as I had hoped. The trick? A System Preferences change: