• Imprinting a signature in a PDF

    The other day I needed to put my signature on a PDF, so I used PDFPen to do so, but noticed that I could still move the signature even after saving it and tried to use the "Merge Imprint into Page" option, but found that it didn't work either (their support confirmed that due to changes in PDFs, this feature was kind of useless and should be removed). My solution was to print out the PDF and scan it back in; my signature was definitely imprinted on the PDF as the entire PDF was a bitmap image. I kind of forgot about this until today.

  • Unhelpful error of the day

    I was working in Quicken today and decided to online enable some of my accounts as I've never done that before. I am using Quicken 2007 for the Mac and have applied the latest "update" (update is in quotes for reasons that will become clear soon.

  • Complete and utter failure of the TSA

    I've written in the past criticizing the TSA and up until now, I haven't been put on any "extra screen" list as far as I know. However, that may change after this post.

  • Squeezebox 7.4 and Bonjour

    Thanks to the efforts of Neil Potter on the XM Radio plugin for the Squeezebox software, I was finally able to update to Squeezebox 7.4 which has many new features over the 7.3 software I was running before.