…and today has been one of those days! It’s been a hell of a day–or should that be a day in hell so this is a bit of a rant and some venting. Maybe you should stop reading here. It began early (before breakfast) when I knew I had to reboot the computer because Office 365 was…
Category: Workplace
Tips for working at home
Working from home is wonderful, but it takes some discipline. A colleague posted this link on Facebook and I though it was helpful so I thought I’d share it. Frome the Huffington Post “Working from Home: Here Are Ten Ways to Do It Better” Some of these things I worked our for myself, but there…
A huge sigh of relief…
As I listen to the rain coming down as Andrea passes, I can now give a sigh of relief. New laptop/desktop is set up and ready, awaiting work. SKY Index is re-installed, as are the Adobe Cloud components–Acrobat XI, and InDesign. The Carbonite back-up is set up again for off-site backup, and there is an…
Requiem for a laptop…
Despite a new hard drive, a clean installation of Windows XP and a re-installation of Windows XP (the second time after I tried to install Windows 8 on it), the ASUS laptop, which has been my stand-in for desktop as well as my traveling computer for many years, seems to have crumped. Many blue screens…
Replacing software
This whole process of having to replace the hard drive in my primary indexing computer has been most instructive–it’s served to make me assess and reassess what software is really necessary for a safe, happy, healthy work environment. I haven’t reinstalled PawSense yet–and there’s a really good reason why not. It was very efficient in…
Index for “The Polar Times”
It’s a relief to have a cat-proof computer as I’m now editing/proofreading scanned excerpts from The Polar Times for a 75th anniversary publication. The excerpts are coming to me as MS Word documents. I’m doing some formatting and checking for OCR errors, and preparing an index. My indexing software, CINDEX®, is making the embedding easy! It’s a…
The CAT did it?
As I go about setting up for freelance work as an indexer, all sorts of things keep popping up that I realize I haven’t considered yet in terms of consequences to my work. This whole chain of thought started when I saw a post on CINDEX users list about the incident of the cat on…
Graffito Indexing 