Laptop versus lap

I  posted some time ago about preventing loss of work by cat-proofing your computer with PawSense.  This is just an update on my experiences with cat and computer. The PawSense software really does protect work–it responds very quickly to cat-like typing. I worked through the selection of sounds to “annoy” the cat and  chase him off the…

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…