September 2011

Transition mostly complete

Submitted by esmerel on Tue, 09/27/2011 - 11:38

I'm set up on the new laptop now. There are some definite quirks with Win 7 to get used to, but having a laptop that can run both its own monitor and the big monitor so I have two heads is pretty fine.The desk setup is less than ideal,ergonomically, but we're going to get new desks for the office. I suspect I'll just get a second monitor and that should make a big difference.

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Behold the shiny!

Submitted by esmerel on Fri, 09/16/2011 - 09:50

So Earl ordered me a new laptop last week and it showed up yesterday. I, of course, have failed to finish setting it up, and am still using my old T-61. I have to install a bunch of stuff and that takes all day. It's a Lenovo IdeaPad Z750. It came with Windows and Chrome, of all things, preinstalled. I may make a go at trying Chrome for my primary browser on the new machine; Firefox has just gotten worse and worse over time with the memory management.

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A first for me

Submitted by esmerel on Mon, 09/12/2011 - 20:07

I just submitted a session for BADCamp. I've never done one before; I thought about titling it "How to make your maintainers hate you", but we thought that was kind of negative, so I went for a more positive title.

We'll see if it gets accepted.

In other news, seriously, Broncos? Also, nice failure by ESPN to catch Gruden saying "Shit, get rid of the ball!"

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Speech is a skill

Submitted by esmerel on Wed, 09/07/2011 - 22:26

Rachel Coleman, one of the most inspiring women I have ever had the fortune to know (YEAH, I KNOW HER. I actually MET her and I can TOTALLY SAY THAT) posted, again, about cochlear implants and how damnit, they don't 'fix' everything. Read her post here. Speech is a skill. The ability to *communicate*? That is invaluable.

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Created a non-kid related blog!

Submitted by esmerel on Tue, 09/06/2011 - 21:43

I decided to go ahead and create a non-directly kid related blog. I have Cranky Penguin which was originally intended to be a personal blog, but ended up locked down because that's where I keep most of the pictures and other details of what my kids are doing. I've been toying for a while with the idea of making a non-Livejournal blog since I don't use that much anymore either. Since the baby is passed out on my shoulder, the time has come, and I broke down and did the install.

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