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Good Dog, Smart Dog – NYTimes.com

dotorious — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:49:33 +0000

Cool story, with a very cute illustration. I gotta get more practice drawing dogs. Good Dog, Smart Dog – NYTimes.com Life as a Labradoodle may sound free and easy, but if you’re Jet, who lives in New Jersey, there is a lot of work to be done. He is both a seizure alert dog and a psychiatric service [...]

Mac > Word > Tip

dotorious — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 01:49:21 +0000

Copy a word or two from a web page, paste onto a Word document, and what do you see? Sometimes, you’re given a drop-down menu with options like “paste text only” or “match destination formatting.” Other times, you’re just stuck with that 24-pt size purple word in Verdana in the middle of your 11-pt Word [...]

Not funny: “illegal alien adult costume” at Target

dotorious — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 23:35:34 +0000

I should start posting a series of reasons why I hate Halloween. To clarify: I don’t hate people who like (or loooove) Halloween. For me: it’s nearly as irritating as Thanksgiving. This offensive costume sold at Target pretty much sums it up. Yes, that’s an “alien” in prison uniform, holding a “green card.” Some asshole at [...]

25 Random Things About Me (revisited)

dotorious — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 22:22:40 +0000

Ah… Facebook. As many of you know, the “25 Random Things About Me” craze came and went earlier this year to mixed reviews. Many complained about how it encouraged “viral narcissism” already prevalent in blogospheres and social networks, many worried about loss of privacy and ridiculed the artifice of intimacy, and many others just [...]

Word:mac – Delete From Work Menu

dotorious — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 20:37:23 +0000

From Word:mac Download this free AppleScript to delete items from your Work Menu in Microsoft Word. A small dialog pops up and lists all your Work Menu items, and you just need to select the ones you want to remove. Or if you’re clever, you can shift-click to select multiple. It worked with my Word 2008 [...]

Korean Contingent Workers Center – intifada?

dotorious — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 20:54:37 +0000

Latest email from the Korean Contingent Workers Center (KCWC) 한국비정규노동센터. There’s an informational/counseling/advocacy session coming up to answer any questions related to contingent/irregular employment in Korea. It looks like it’s geared towards advocates and organizers who may not know where to begin, who struggle with explaining the ever-changing laws and regulations, who are curious about [...]

Cyberduck trouble with Snow Leopard

dotorious — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 19:36:29 +0000

See, this is what happens when you upgrade things. The trusty FTP program with a cute icon, Cyberduck, doesn’t launch with Snow Leopard. Aha – there is Cyberduck 3.3b2 you can download (Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard compatible beta. Intel Mac OS X 10.5 or later required). Done, and in the meantime, I also downloaded the [...]

fan settings for overheating iMac

dotorious — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 03:46:30 +0000

My “main” computer these days is a 24″ aluminum iMac (2.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo with 2 GB RAM and 320 GB hard drive). It’s big, it’s beautiful, and ahem, it’s hot. By hot, I mean: especially after I moved it to a location where there is not as much air circulating around it (should [...]

Snow Leopard killed my Mail plugins

dotorious — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 01:35:42 +0000

If you never use plugins to spruce up Mail, you won’t understand my pain. I upgraded to Snow Leopard (Mac OS X 10.6.1) this afternoon. Not only did it disable WideMail (which offers a much better-looking 3-column layout than the default setting), but it killed MailFollowUp, MiniMail, and RelatedMail, and most tragically, both Mail.Appetizer and Mail [...]

Kanyelicio.us

dotorious — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 23:13:58 +0000

“Live” version here. Ridiculous, but it made me laugh. (Thanks, ewee.) You can do it to any website.