Visa Gift Cards 30 September 2009

Short version: My advice is to stay away from these.
I got one from Verizon as a perk for signing up for a year of FiOS service (internet and cable TV, not phone).
I went to use it (twice in a row) at Sears a couple weekends ago. The first transaction (about $80 bucks) went fine. The [...]

The Air Today 30 September 2009

The fresh, cool air hit me when I opened my front door this morning. The temperature of the still air was perfect for a motorcycle ride or a walk in the park with my girls. Anything outdoors. Today is not a day to be indoors. Weather.com says it’s 71 degrees in my zip code.

Snow Leopard Mail.app bug “Send new messages from: Account of selected mailbox” is broken 9 September 2009

20090915 Tuesday update: I upgraded to 10.6.1 a day or so ago. Now this feature is working right again.
I upgraded to Snow Leopard this past Sunday. Yesterday, I ran into a totally new problem all day with Mail.app: It ignores the following preference:
Preferences | Composing | Send new messages from: <Account of selected [...]

Behcet’s disease (not me) 7 September 2009

A friend was just diagnosed with Behçet’s disease. He had a history of really bad mouth sores that came and went. He was diagnosed finally as thrush last week. Then, at the hospital this weekend, they confirmed the thrush diagnosis and raised it to Behçet’s.

Snow Leopard 6 September 2009

I installed Snow Leopard just now. It was immediately evident that ScreenGrabber didn’t work. =(
And my <Caps Lock> key was un-disabled. =( Fixed that quickly with this article.