dan steingart

Anyone have any idea why my my CSS code is breaking in IE? The silver menu bar should be on the right of the content.

Not the screen this time, but the damn power socket. As in, I can’t run off of AC and my battery isn’t charging, and no, it isn’t the charger. Hardware hegemony sucks, no matter how pretty it is. So here I wait at the apple store SOHO.

UPDATE: I hate windows. Like knitting with potholders on.

Starts off with assembling furniture of some kind with a single allen key. It’s important that the bolts strip easily.

The next item of business is to look for an obscure but momentarily critical RCA based connector. This must take place by searching through bins and bins of similar, almost, but not quite type [...]

And it is called TeX. I’ve dabbled with TeX before to do some equation typesetting, and I found this program, BibDesk, for OS X, which seems like a nice bibliography manager. But it requires writing a whole paper in TeX.

So I start looking at TeX tools. I’m asked for my preference in [...]

I made Yvesdroppings

Why would two people come to a coffee shop to discuss something that’s clearly 1) very personal and 2) very serious?

How would one spot such a conversation? It might start with two people sitting down, not saying anything for two or three minutes. The icebreaker question will likely be: “Do you really think [...]

Hard to beat.

Camilla by “Art of Noise” and Aquitane by “Audio Lotion”

Both are Groove Salad Classics, both instantly trance me out, both impossible to find.

Anyone?

Woke up early, putzed around a bit.

Called Andrew and went to City View for dim sum. Peking duck was served.

We went to fry’s in Concord. Spent an hour deciding between four bluetooth mice. I picked the smallest, and five hours later I’m not sure why.

Took the high road on the way back [...]

Saw Shopgirl. Ooof. Wooden acting, loosely disguised fetish. Gave me a serious case of agita.

I then read a few blogs I’ve been piling up all week (I close NNW from 9 to 5 now. Really.) When the posts sit there in a stack rather than fluttering in the minor annoyance [...]