Saturday, February 16, 2008
Regarding "Sound will not be available. (OK)" error message when starting VMWare Fusion at home, sound works today—I didn't do anything to fix it except restart Fusion. Showered, usual oatmeal breakfast. House chores: dishes, laundry, dusting. Patrick bought groceries. Today Patrick is making red beans and rice with french bread and Phil and Drew are coming over. Patrick and Phil have studying to do (separate things) and Drew and I need to work on rechargespa.com. Why are blog services like WordPress are so bad at website navigation? For example, I start at the home page for Stuff White People Like, and it's funny so I want to read the whole thing starting from the beginning. 68 posts over 2 months—not insurmountable. Mouse click #1: I select January 2008 which after several Page Downs shows me "Archive for January 2008" but only lead-ins from posts 47 to 37 in descending order. Mouse click #2: I select Older Links at the bottom of the page, and I get "Archive for January 2008" with lead-ins from posts 36 to 27. Keyboard: Press End. Mouse click #3: I select Older Links at the bottom of the page, and I get "Archive for January 2008" with lead-ins from posts 26 to 17. Keyboard: Press End. Mouse click #4: I select Older Links at the bottom of the page, and I get "Archive for January 2008" with lead-ins from posts 16 to 7. Keyboard: Press End. Mouse click #5: I select Older Links at the bottom of the page, and I get "Archive for January 2008" with lead-ins from posts 6 to 1. Keyboard: Press End. Mouse click #6: These are only lead-ins, so to start reading post #1, I select Read Full Post under #1. I read post #1 and laugh. Now I want to read post #2, but there's no link that will obviously take me from post #1 to post #2. Keyboard: Press Backspace. Mouse click #7: Select Read Full Post under #2. Laugh. Keyboard: Press Backspace. Mouse click #8: Select Read Full Post under #3. And so on. Column view in Finder 10.5.3 has annoying redraw problems in certain situations involving the manual expansion of columns. Finally I work my way backwards reading Stuff White People Like and eventually get back to the home page, which to my relief shows the last (10?) entire posts instead of just lead-ins but I still need to press End, then scroll up until I find the beginning of the last post on the page, then when I'm done reading that post I again have to scroll up to find the next-to-last post on the page, then scroll down again while reading it, then scroll up again to find the third-to-last post, and so forth. Phil and Drew came over for lunch. Patrick made red beans and rice which we ate with French bread. Afterwards Drew and I worked on Danny's website (small edits and added Phil's photo to the medispa page). Phil read one page from his scuba book and then fell asleep on the couch. Patrick worked on homework. Drew and Phil took off. Patrick took a nap. I worked on my shirts project, which involves measuring 13 dimensions of all the long-sleeved shirts I own, taking notes on how the shirt fits, then documenting it all. The goal is to determine for each of the 13 measurements what range exists in order for a particular shirt to fit me in that dimension. It's slow going, and after measuring 6 shirts I realize it will be much easier to handle the data in a database. It does not exist but I want it: a device which will make any keyboard a wireless keyboard. I think there's a good reason why this device doesn't exist, but I don't know what that reason is. Spent some time trying to build a database in OpenOffice but kept running into a problem in which the database would open as read-only and I couldn't resolve it. Dinner with Patrick at Daphne's Greek Cafe: chicken kebob plate with avgolemeno soup for me, combo plate chicken with avgolemeno soup for Patrick. Errands at Walgreen's. Home. Stretches.