Back in the days of iron men and wooden computers, I listened to audiobooks on cassette. In 2001, I joined Audible.com and listened to digitized audiobooks using my trusty yet problematic Digisette Duo-Aria; for years, my secondhand cars only had cassette players so the Digisette served me well. I preferred listening to audiobooks over music whilst …
Category Archives: Software
Software: MacBreakz and Joe Ergo
You. You who are reading this blog post. You have already spent an ungodly number of hours sitting down, hunched forward, staring unblinking into this screen. Do we really need your computer to remind you that you need a break every now and then? Sadly, yes. There are many software-based solutions out there for Mac …
Don’t overthink it (Installment #247)
I volunteered to do a tedious job at work — copy/paste about maybe 200-400 parameters scattered throughout a group of FORTRAN files. The parameters may be in one of maybe 3 different formats. Also, the parameters came with multiline comments (with each commented line starting with !), and sometimes just big wodges of comments on …
Kindle for Mac
In late August, I had bought Timothy Pychyl’s e-book The Procrastinator’s Digest via Xlibris for use with Adobe Digital Editions. (I subscribe to Pychyl’s iProcrastinate podcast.) However, trying to get Adobe Digital Editions set up and registered on my MacBook was a pain, and then my credit card number was stolen suspiciously close to the …
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