By Gary V. Vaughan under Technology
This is the third part of a short series of posts about installing Mac OS X. Today’s article covers the third party applications I use, except for my email setup, which I’m saving for the next part, and some other goodies I’ll cover after that in the final part. Since coming back from repair, my [...]
By Gary V. Vaughan under Technology, Writing
This is the first part of a short series of articles about implementing Phomnemonal, my experimental typing shorthand. The other parts are listed at the end of the article. Over the last few weeks, a number of seemingly disparate events have lead me towards the idea of creating my own short hand system: My latest [...]
By Gary V. Vaughan under Technology
Or: Trying to get your files back after you lost them is expensive and stressful! Last year, partly out of love for for new Apple hardware, and partly because I needed easy access to Linux to teach some courses on Linux Security and then Apache Security, I became the proud owner of a tempremental Rev [...]
By Gary V. Vaughan under Personal Growth
Three months and three days ago, I adopted David Seah’s Ground Hog Resolution Day idea, and made a list of my GHD resolutions. The idea is not to try to make resolutions for New Years Day, when exhausted and hung over from the excesses of Christmas and New Year’s eve, but to wait until Groundhog [...]
By Gary V. Vaughan under Ramblings, Technology
Credit for the title of this post goes to Professor Stephen Hawking. As a Brit in America on Independence Day, I’ve been warned not to go outside incase I get thrown on a fire like Guy Fawkes on Bonfire Night, as is apparently the custom here. Not wishing to be set alight, I decided to [...]