- Installing drivers for my ancient HP ScanJet 5500c.
- Scanner heading to be recycled. Drivers are PowerPC only. Ugh.
- New scanner ordered — and a new amplifier to make the audio happier.
Technology
Watching MacBook Air commercial and experiencing lust.
Ordering a Canon HV30. Finally making the jump to a new, hi-def video camera.
Wow – Safari 3.1 really is blazing fast.
Vista SP1 has totally hosed my WiFi card. How ridiculous can Vista get. It worked fine before.
Getting lots of server errors while using Google Reader today. Anyone else?
Fluid and Site-Specific Browsers
So, you may be wondering what a site-specific browser is. In a nutshell, it is just a web browser that is packaged with some specific functionality or extensions to work with a specific website. I think this is going to be an interesting area over the coming years. If you think …
Keep reading · 2 minutes: Fluid and Site-Specific BrowsersHeading to lunch with Tom Von Kuster and Paul Bieganski. Thanks Dan Grigsby for the intro.
- Updating Vista to SP1. Wish me luck. I feel I’m going to need it.
- Vista SP1 Dialog: “The installation might take an hour or more. Your computer will restart several times during installation.”
- Vista SP1 is now back to Stage 1/3. Goofy. 9% complete. “Do not turn off your computer.” (or you will die.)
- Vista SP1 Stage 1/3 now at 65%.
- Vista SP1 Stage 1 done. Now Stage 2/3 at 3%.
- Vista SP1 update made it through stage 2/3. Had a 30 second moment where everything was just black and freaked me out. But chugging along.
- Vista SP1 Stage 2 done. Onto Stage 3. 0% complete. Seems smooth so far, except a few extended black screens.
- Vista SP1 Stage 3 flew by, done. Login prompt!
- Now happily on Vista SP1. Seem to have passed through the dark side of the moon and am now safe again.
One of the tweets highlighted in my MarketWatch Farewell Video.
Just spent a really frustrating hour trying to move a 4.5G set of files over my Wireless network. Grr…