Michigan Accent

Explaining my accent, one post at a time.

  • government solutions

    ,
    1–2 minutes
    35 words

    I’ve always enjoyed despair.com’s demotivators.  They’ve outdone themselves with their latest addition:  “Government.  If you think the problems we create are bad, just wait until you see our solutions.” –www.despair.com I need one of these.

    Read more: government solutions
  • from F-Spot to iPhoto in 8 painful months

    , ,
    4–6 minutes
    949 words

    Earlier this year we opened our home to a new Mac, and have been very happy with the new addition.  We were able to transition over immediately from our Linux computer with no issues for most functionality (e.g., email, web browsing, word processing).  I assumed the same would be true with our digital pictures.  Not so much. Years ago we began storing and managing all of our digital pictures in F-Spot on Linux.  Being concerned with portability, and not wanting to be locked into a single product, I did enough research to convince myself we’d be able to export all…

    Read more: from F-Spot to iPhoto in 8 painful months
  • about Face(book)

    ,
    1–2 minutes
    159 words

    I tried to avoid it. I held off for quite some time, but finally caved and created a Facebook account. My life went along swimmingly without ever needing a MySpace account, and I was hoping the same would hold true with Facebook. Unfortunately, my annoyance at not being able to see information that people wanted to share with me finally overcame my disdain for keeping up with the latest and greatest social networking site of the day. So I now have an account. I now have one more place I need to check for updates about people. I now have…

    Read more: about Face(book)