Marc Abramowitz – Page 36

Car break-in in our neighborhood

We went our for a bike ride and noticed that just around the corner from us, where we pick up our mail, a car had been broken into. And apparently there was another break-in that same night. I'm glad that we're able to fit both...

General

Recycling is difficult

Well, at least, today it was, in my neighborhood:...

General

A humorous day in the neighborhood

or at least on the neighborhood email list. Take a look at this exchange (names deleted to protect the people whose names have been deleted) from a week ago: Person A's original post: I am a resident of Alegro community. I have...

General

Right Brain vs Left Brain test

Do you see the dancer turning clockwise or anti-clockwise? This is good for hours of entertainment: Right Brain vs Left Brain test After a bit of practice I can see her turning either way, by closing my eye for a moment and...

Windows

XMLSpy Home Edition 2004

Nicole has used XMLSpy Home Edition for a few years. When I went to install it on her new laptop, I realized that Altova has discontinued the free home edition. I did however, manage to locate it on this Chinese site. Get it now...

MacWindows

Recover from a ‘Library is locked’ iTunes error

Ran into this on Nicole's new laptop. The reason was because I had used cygwin rsync to copy over our documents from the old laptop and the iTunes Library.itl file ended up getting marked as read-only. macosxhints.com has this...

Windows

Vista Junction Points

Nicole has a new laptop with Windows Vista and it's been a bit of an adjustment. One thing that has been a bit confusing is that Vista has changed some of the familiar folders like "Documents and Settings" ("Users" is the new...