If Ancient Rome had the Internet…
If the rome had the internet….Hysterical list of what might have happened.
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Fun day at work
Today was a lot of fun at work. I spent most of the afternoon working with my fellow tech writer on a user guide. We walked through edits and made updates. I am probably strange but I had a ball doing it. Even when we have our own strange head-banging sessions, I enjoy working with…
Sad News…
Gary Gygax, one of the creators of Dungeons & Dragons pen-and-paper role-playing game has died. From a post by Troll Lord on Troll Lord Games: It is almost too much to get my mind about. But I’ve just had news that our dear Dungeon Master has passed away. Ernie called this morning, he thought we…
Dinner with friends — good times
There are days like Sunday where so much happens it makes your head spin. I met two friends at Barnes and Noble in the evening. We sat in the book store for three hours taking about Roman archaeology, giggling over the “research” (or severe lack thereof) in several books, griping about lack of citations, and…
Upgrading Mac Pro video card
I upgraded the Mac Pro’s stock video card to a Gigabyte nVidia GeForce GTX 600 with 2 GB of video ram. The card requires a special power cable: PCIe Power Cable for Mac. No local stores had this part in stock, so I ordered it from Amazon. It finally arrived so the card was installed…
Installing PloneSoftwareCenter on Plone 4
In addition to the Plone Help Center, I also wanted to have PloneSoftwareCenter for project management capabilities. The normal method for installing PloneSoftwareCenter is to add Products.PloneSoftwareCenter to the eggs = section of the zinstance/buildout.cfg file in the Plone installation. Trying to build and then run Plone, I ended up adding three additional lines to…
LaTeX replacement
Slashdot had an interesting discussion on LaTeX, a document markup and typesetting system used mainly by scientific and mathematical publications. LaTeX is complex and hard to setup but offers powerful tools (most of which do not have a reasonable substitute). Admist the conversations (and jokes about latex verses polyurethane), was this little gem of a…