Posts tagged ‘sgml’
Text files and me - Part 2
March 7th, 2011 at 8:15 am by Dr. Drang
I ended the first installment of this reminiscence in late 1996, a time at which I was dealing with two sources of frustration: Everything I’d written in the previous decade was either lost or on the way to being lost. I’d done my writing in a variety of word processors (see Part 1 for the…
O Come, O Come, E-Manual
December 20th, 2009 at 10:53 pm by Dr. Drang
I spent a good deal of yesterday installing a new GE dishwasher. As always, when looking back on it, I’m dismayed that such a small accomplishment took such a long time. Some of the timewasters were: The tight spaces around threaded fittings that wouldn’t allow me to turn my socket wrench more than 30° or…
