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Putting the Ark back into storage
I've written about rain in San Diego before and every year, we hear the same thing on the news about flooding. Why is this news? It happens EVERY year in the same places. Yes, it rained a lot. Now the sun is out, move along.
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Money isn't everything
"Money isn't everything" is typically a line I hear people say when they don't have money and think that money wouldn't help them. After many years of working like crazy, I've come to some realizations and it really starts with that line. I think that it's taken me a long time to come to this realization, others would say that I've been lucky in coming to this realization quickly!
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End of Microsoft Office on my Mac
Last week after a colleague ask a client to send a Word document as a PDF, I asked him how he got away without Office on his computer and he said he used iWork. I tried this route several years ago, but had to install Office when I started by job 2 years ago to use some wacky templates. It dawned on me that I no longer had a reason to keep Office on my machine.
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Computer sleep vs hibernate
While troubleshooting my computer today to see if I could prevent it from crashing if it went into hibernate mode (where the OS saves out the contents of RAM before sleeping to the disk and completely shuts down the system), I again came across information on how to disable hibernate. I've seen this information a number of times, but didn't really pay attention to it. Recent Mac laptops, by default, have hibernate turned on which is great if your machine loses power completely and you haven't saved your work. However, I always save my work and rarely let my machine get all the way down such that the battery is completely dead. So, hibernate simply makes it longer for my machine to sleep; with the addition of 2 more GB of RAM, it takes even longer to write out the contents of RAM.