Grumbles

Once again, the mac proves itself user-unfriendly Comments Off

Today I learned that although it is possible to add memory to an iMac without an Apple tech on site, Apple in no way wants you to muck about with the innards of it’s machines and makes the process as obscure as possibe without actually welding the case shut. Took me over an hour just [...]

New job Comments Off

Sheesh. At the rate I’ve been bouncing through employers this year, you’d think I was flighty or something. :) With luck, this one will last. The whole first day jitters thing is so much like the first day of school… which I was never too fond of anyway. But, I think I like this place. [...]

Things I've noted while job-hunting Comments Off

Having had only limited success freelancing, and having not one but two bosses go flakey on me, I decided that it was time to find something a little more solid with which to pay the rent. I did find a job, but I also found some other things… For the three weeks I’m sending out [...]

Designer is a gender neutral word Comments Off

Today, I needed to have a talk with one of my bosses. (I have three jobs, equalling three bosses, if I count myself as my self-employed boss, which I do.) Y’see, he’s a very smart, fairly nice guy (and I use the words “nice guy” with reason, as will be explained later) who has been [...]

This is me, beating my head against the wall Comments Off

Y’know, when a client sends something “on disk”, you’d think by now it would be a simple affair. Especially when it’s a client you’ve worked with for several years and have trained assiduously in the arcane science of “how to send your developer files she can use”. So, when I get the nice, hefty package [...]