Category: Blog

Broke down and bought a Surface.  Pretty cool, haven't had time to do with it much except to find out that my favorite Windows 8 games don't work with it (Solitaire and Mahgong) Can't seem to get Wordament to download.

Also can't seem to get Word to blog with Typepad, but then the website works fine — I'm using that now.

Most amusing part?  I didn't buy a keyboard, and right now I'm using the keyboard from my Mini-Mac,a little Apple USB keyboard.  Since it has ports, just need to plug a mouse in and I'm set.

I took a second, located the Mouse USB plug and moved it over to the keyboard.  Yep, works fine.

I have some technical issues I am resolving in chat.

Wordament wont install and the Word Preview app isn't blogging correctly. Their support chat is great.

Something of a badge of honor – the ability to work all night long. In hindsight
it was not always so smart. At least not when trying to meet a school deadline.
It showed little more than poor planning in most cases.

via blog.acthompson.net

I pulled a few all nighters when I was in college, but most of the time I was and am one of those people who get things done well in advance.  When we did an all nighter it was to get access when no one else was in the lab.  Like the drum-printer thing.

The last time I tried pulling an all nighter was for a charity coding event, and it wasn't a good idea.  I'd love to do the event, but only if we did it with reasonable hours.

I’ve ended up remoting into my older computers twice today because I couldn’t get websites to work with Internet Explorer 10.

ATT website – was thinking of preordering the Nokio 920 but with our issues with Fedex (long story), I think I’d rather go to the store around the corner from school and pick up a new phone at lunch.

Flexible spending account website had trouble uploading a receipt.

Fun!

According to the internet searches I’ve done, Visual Studio 2012 doesn’t do XNA, so I have to have both Visual Studio 2010 and 2012 on my machine? Not a huge issue with 500 gb of hard drive but still.

Or I could just stay with Visual Studio 2010.

Hoping that gets fixed soon.

So these error messages bother me. Not sure if they should or not.

I have been doing my last few blog posts with Word 2013, by going to the Windows 8 Start thing, picking Word 2013, picking the blog template and filling out the template.

I have one account set up so far. This one, and it’s pretty smooth and slick to blog with.

I need to take a moment and get the others set up.

Setting them up took moments.

I was able to plug in my external drive, assign it to drive letter M:, fire up my LAMP server and get to the Moodle site stored on the drive and do some work on it, so that’s all pretty cool.

So I’m making progress.

My next Windows 8 issue had to do with installing the Windows 2013 issue. Seems I couldn’t install the Beta along with the real Windows 2010. Have no idea why – the install hung and never did happen, but as long as I don’t install Office 2010 I seem fine.

Since I don’t really have a need for Office 2010 on this machine and intend on buying Office 2013 when it comes out, I’m cool with running the Beta.

I’ve completely restored my Sony Laptop twice.

One issue is when I have gone to support, they have no clue on how to operate Windows 8 at all, it would be amusing if I wasn’t actually trying to get support.

The first support issue was that my laptop wasn’t charging. I have had that happen twice now, and I think it is related to VMWare. I also think that’s why my camera picture disappeared, the second reason I went to support.

So first issue is Sony’s tech people need to learn Windows 8. They also need to do a bit better about communicating in English but hey, it’s not like they work for Dell, I expect some lower level English.

Seems I can’t get Flash to work. Probably don’t care one way or another. And the Adobe Flash website directions are just flat confusing.