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…
Grammar-ease: Lay versus Lie
Originally posted on Live to Write – Write to Live:
I haven’t had a grammar post in a while, so here’s a new one! A particularly challenging one for many people, the conundrum of lay versus lie. Lay is an active verb. A person picks up a book and lays it on a chair. A chicken lays an egg.…
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…
Anticipation…
After starting the morning with computer hassles, the day has improved! Computer problem solved thanks to a good neighbor who is a real whiz with computers. Then to further improve my day, I got confirmation that the author has finished the rewrite on the next edition of the motor disorders book that I’ve been waiting…
software, learning curve for new….
After a lot of thought, cogitation, and serious deliberation, I’ve done it–just installed SKY Index 7 (SI7). Now I’m working my way through the accompanying manual to be sure that I can get the best out of SI7. While I’m waiting for the final on the 3rd edition of a book on motor disorders, I’ve…
ASI Conference in San Antonio, Texas
It’s been a good trip to Texas–once I escaped from Denver and finally got here. Talk about time travel! Wednesday was a pretty strange day: leave Durham NC (Eastern time zone) in pleasant spring weather; arrive Denver CO in 28 degrees Fahrenheit, snow, freezing rain–all on Mountain time. A cancelled flight, and several delays to…
ASI Conference
Great conference–getting ready to go to a workshop on working with PDFs, then on embedded indexing.
A passing mention….
I’ve just given a huge sigh of relief, hit the send button on the e-mail with the attachments, and had an acute attack of nervousness–is there an error in there somewhere, did I miss something, is there…? It’s been a long, but interesting, project. I’ve prepared the index for a commemorative edition of The Polar…
Graffito Indexing 