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May. 30th, 2013 11:20 pmThe long-deadline item is more or less finished (although I'll probably need most of tomorrow to despeckle it). It was an exhausting job that often made me think I was translating every possible combination of "you are in a maze of twisty little passages," except for the much broader range of variations.
Galina and I watched a movie about Alfred Hitchcock and the making of Psycho last night, starring Antony Hopkins and Helen Mirren. And while I do not think it is necessary to nail a particular person's accent in most cases, I was both pleased that Hopkins was able to at times do an excellent job of tickling some old synaptic paths inside my head, and at times a little miffed when I heard the voice of Hannibal Lecter from the screen. Overall, however, I liked the movie quite a bit.
Not too long ago, I decided to try the 64-bit Unicode version of AutoHotkey, and after running into problems with the screen clipping function (which I use all the time), I eventually traced the problem to some function calls that never returned (or returned with errors). Fortunately, swapping out that version for the 32-bit Unicode version seems to have solved the problem.
There was a time when adopting new technology involved minor annoyances. And while the obvious dark side of that was an industry that was in some ways beholden to the past, it turns out there was a hidden dark side, too. The poster child for this had been Microsoft's insistence on redesigning their Office user interface a couple of versions back to the so-called "ribbon" format, which I resisted for quite some time until I realized that I was making things hard on myself.
(I say "had been" because the only thing worse than redesigning a user interface is to redesign it and lobotomize the application's functionality at the same time, as happened with Adobe Acrobat.)
But don't get me started.
Cheers...
Galina and I watched a movie about Alfred Hitchcock and the making of Psycho last night, starring Antony Hopkins and Helen Mirren. And while I do not think it is necessary to nail a particular person's accent in most cases, I was both pleased that Hopkins was able to at times do an excellent job of tickling some old synaptic paths inside my head, and at times a little miffed when I heard the voice of Hannibal Lecter from the screen. Overall, however, I liked the movie quite a bit.
Not too long ago, I decided to try the 64-bit Unicode version of AutoHotkey, and after running into problems with the screen clipping function (which I use all the time), I eventually traced the problem to some function calls that never returned (or returned with errors). Fortunately, swapping out that version for the 32-bit Unicode version seems to have solved the problem.
There was a time when adopting new technology involved minor annoyances. And while the obvious dark side of that was an industry that was in some ways beholden to the past, it turns out there was a hidden dark side, too. The poster child for this had been Microsoft's insistence on redesigning their Office user interface a couple of versions back to the so-called "ribbon" format, which I resisted for quite some time until I realized that I was making things hard on myself.
(I say "had been" because the only thing worse than redesigning a user interface is to redesign it and lobotomize the application's functionality at the same time, as happened with Adobe Acrobat.)
But don't get me started.
Cheers...
