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So... pretty good, though no walks. (I did some walking in Fry's and parking lots yesterday, but that hardly counts.) Got started on the taxes, which is good. Quiet days, mostly at home. I could get used to that altogether too quickly.

The kitchen was a disaster area when I got home late Wednesday; between the YD running a load of dishes (it's not one of her usual chores) and me washing pots, it is now more-or-less usable again.

I think what I need to do is to reconfigure the kitchen and office into something like their final (post-move) form. Anything that doesn't fit goes into storage.

A lot of stuff is going to have to wait until the taxes are done. I let that slip, as usual. Growf.

Quite a few links. The Google Art Project is way cool! Pictures from dozens of art museums online and browsable, though it has a few navigational glitches. This is a common problem with stuff based on Javascript -- it doesn't have to work the way the user expects.

I want a Pebble E-Paper Watch. Want, want, want. So, apparently, do thousands of other people. And Code Not Physical Property, Court Rules in Goldman Sachs Espionage Case. That can cut both ways -- clearly companies need to be able to protect their trade secrets, but equating wrongful copying of information with theft of a physical object isn't the way to do it. Somebody tell the media industries.

0412 Th
  * up 7:10; W=192.2; drugs, ; laundry, exercise
    * load drugs, since I wasn't here Tuesday night to do it.
  : kitchen is a disaster area -- YD says she'll do dishes.  Laundry marginal. 
  * 11:50ish picked up my checked suitcase at SJC
  * 15min:  go through the week's accumulated mail
  * order: humira - Approximate ready date:  	 04/13/12 12:00 PM
  @ Code Not Physical Property, Court Rules in Goldman Sachs Espionage Case
  & more hacking on (mostly) the reference section of home.html
  @ Google Art Project way cool!!!

0413 Fr
  * up 8ish; W=193.6; d, n, t; dishes, exercise
  @ Pebble: E-Paper Watch for iPhone and Android   Kickstarter
  @ xkcd: Never (for some of my friends.
    You know who you are.  Don't forget to look at the mouseover text.)
  @ Eurozine - IMF economist: Crisis begins with inequality @cshirky
  & make account at kickstarter.com
  * 12:42 checkbook entered.  Last year's forms copied over.
  @ Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Titanic Business 100 Years Later - WSJ.com 
  @ Ann Romney: Stay-at-home mom's value tops $112,000 says new study 
    -> What's a Mom Worth in 2012? - Salary.com
  @ Catholic students fight back against archdiocese's anti-family rhetoric 
  : Advance planning:  the garbage co's Sprint Cleanup Day is 5/12, so the best
    time to go to Seattle is the weekend after that (i.e. the weekend before Baycon)
  * 15:10 taxes:  print bank and cc summaries (only Amex and Chase seem to have 'em)
  * pick up humira at discharge pharm.  after noon
  * buy:  -DVD- or BluRay player
  @ bullshit is not news
  * BILLS!!!!!
  * taxes:  download s/w
  * taxes:  import 2010, enter W2 info

Date: 2012-04-14 05:08 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] acelightning.livejournal.com
"The Google Art Project is way cool! Pictures from dozens of art museums online and browsable, though it has a few navigational glitches. This is a common problem with stuff based on Javascript -- it doesn't have to work the way the user expects."

Heh. When I clicked on the link in SeaMonkey, I got a window that seemed to be completely filled with nothing but very fine black-on-black diagonal lines. My cursor, however, became a "pulling hand", so I clicked and dragged. This gave me a very faint image of some sort, heavily blurred around the edges, that I could drag around the screen, but when I dropped it, it vanished, and if I clicked again, the whatever-it-was was back in its original position. That was all I could do with the page.

So I fired up IE 6 (the most recent version that will run on this machine), and got the following error message:
You’re missing out…
Sorry, the Google Art Project uses technology that your browser doesn’t understand.
Install Chrome Frame for Internet Explorer to improve your experience of using the web. It’s simple and only needs to be done once.
Install Chrome Frame.
Not terribly impressive either way, Google...
Edited Date: 2012-04-14 05:12 pm (UTC)

Date: 2012-04-15 11:29 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] acelightning.livejournal.com
Well, we work mostly in Windows environments. I tried the website on another machine - running XP (my personal machine is so old, the best it can do is Windows 2000), with SeaMonkey and IE 8. I got the same results - a dim, quasi-draggable image in SeaMonkey, and the error message in IE. If Google has made it so that it only works in Chrome, they're making a big mistake.

Date: 2012-04-15 05:53 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] acelightning.livejournal.com
The current version of SeaMonkey has only been out for about a month :-(

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