The Johnson Blog

I swear there’s a new Java update every week, tonight I got so mad at the java icon yelling at me in the system tray on my server that I gave in and clicked it so it would go download the latest ultra-important POS updates that are Java.
What am I greeted with?

I’ve blogged about the [...]

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At work this morning we came across Adobe’s accidental moratorium on Trial Downloads:
Wow, pretty drastic.  The FAQ reads:
During the month of June 2008, certain product trials that are launched for the first time (regardless of when they were installed) will function for only one day instead of 30 days, due to an error in a [...]

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I just released the latest version, 1.3.20, tonight.  A few new things include: recipe rating; cooking times; preparation times; better search capability; ingredient preparations; bug fixes; and more bug fixes.
If you’re a user, go upgrade!  If you aren’t a user, give it a try!
www.ejichef.com
And now it’s midnight, time for bed.

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As anyone who has done any decent amount of photo editing on their computer knows, getting the colors and brightness just right can be a difficult task.  Speaking for myself, I find it very frustrating to get the image looking good on my main monitor, but when I slide it to one of the others, [...]

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I apologize for the issues thejohnsonblog may be experiencing with connectivity - Comcast is apparently still learning how to run a network.

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I got bored tonight and upgraded to the latest version of Wordpress, tada!
I also decided that it was time to find a new theme since my last one (BigBlue) was feeling a little old to me.   I’m not all too impressed with my web design skills, so I don’t mess around with creating my own [...]

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Slashdot just posted an article about some new “3D” browser that AT&T is building called Pogo.   Meh.  Big deal.
Why do so many “3D” applications really bring nothing new to the table?   The screenshots for Pogo show a Vista-style ”3d-flip” sorta thing, with nothing but the page title and DATE displayed next to it.  Oh boy, that’s useful. 
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Made a big OOPS tonight, something that could/should have been avoided by a slightly better UI/usability design on the part of VMWare Server.
As I mentioned a couple days ago, I have started running my web server (the 0ne hosting this blog among other things) in a virtual machine, using VMWare Server.  I happily got everything [...]

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