Mermaids

A mix of my daughter's activities and my own technological twoddling.

Thursday, February 26, 2009

IE Spell Check for Work

I have been asked to find and try out a spell-checker for IE at work. I do not use IE other than testing, but it is the standard for the workforce here. So, I have installed the plug-in IE7pro in my IE installation and am now trying it out. Amazingly, it almost makes IE behave like a 21st century browser!

I still doubt I will be switching to IE as my day-to-day browser any time soon, but this plug-in is very slick and provides a significant number of improvements for IE.

I think this will be the beginning of a series of more technical posts. I will try and keep an update running on the Mermaids on Bikes, but there are just too many pictures to process before I get to posting primarily about them again.

Land Shark

Monday, February 09, 2009

Yo!

Ok, here it is... yet another run at this blogging thing. I have figured out that it takes too much effort to edit pictures of the mermaids for every post. Being as how I am a nerd, I will be filling in with my own nerdly activities and only occasional postings about the mermaids.

I just finished rebuilding all the work machines in the house (two laptops and one desktop) with SuSE 11.1 and KDE 4.2. Very pretty desktop, though I am not yet convinced of the fung-schuay nallity of it. I highly commend them for trying something new, and I believe some of the features will prove to be worthwhile.

Alright, I promised myself I would keep this brief so that I might continue to post on a regular basis. If it becomes too big a deal... I'll be doomed to another year of not posting.

Land Shark