January 29, 2014 at 11:13AM

Looks like I can't use the generic mouse driver on this computer. The pointer jumps around whenever I move the mouse slowly, like it's having an attack of nystagmus or something whenever I'm closing in on a target spot.

No comment needed.

Here's a juxtaposition found this evening on my Facebook timeline that kinda startled me. Perhaps it's a message from the Void that my akashic record is skipping on the turntable of life. Or maybe not.

January 11, 2014 at 04:27PM

I hear screaming somewhere in the apartment complex. I guess the Seattle Mariners must have scored another basket.

January 08, 2014 at 04:38PM

I'm a little bit frustrated by Debian Linux this afternoon. I had an old laptop sitting around that had become obsolete, so I decided to install Linux on it for fun. Four or five installs and several weeks later, and it appears that Linux seems to be changing the login password I use, randomly. This glitch might lock me out immediately after the installation, or it might wait till the third time I try to log in to suddenly decide not to accept my password. (I've been locked out for half an hour. Tried again just on a whim, and Linux blithely let me in as if nothing had happened. Being locked out is bad. Instability and inconsistent operation is arguably worse.)

January 01, 2014 at 06:27PM

Been taking advantage of the (perhaps temporary) return of the PC's screen resolution to normal, to upgrade a few things, mostly related to telephony. The attempts to get my cellphone to sync with Skype, and to back up its address book automagically, didn't quite work. At least I managed to prevent one installation from re-setting the browser's homepage to MSN. But if you get an email ad from Bing that's ostensibly from me, I apologize in advance!