I switched from Firefox to Chrome soon after Google introduced their browser. Chrome was clean, and Chrome was fast. Chrome is fast no longer. Partly, that's because fast is relative, and Firefox has gotten better. But a big change is that Chrome has gotten slower as it has … [Read more...]

Yesterday my scanning program hung converting a scanned document to a PDF. Suspicious, I tried to launch Acrobat X without success. I poked around on the web and found out that there’s a widespread problem with CS6: a month after activation, Acrobat sometimes stops working. I … [Read more...]

I usually report here on technology gone wrong. Today, I’d like to change that and write a little love letter to my Epson 9800. It occurred to me that I hadn’t used the printer for a long time – I’m using my 4900 for most everything these days – so I decided to print something … [Read more...]

I decided to get a portable computer with a display bright enough to read in sunlight so I’d have more flexibility in my slit-scan picture taking. I settled on a Panasonic Toughbook, and ordered one through Rapid Access, one of their dealers. The chronology went like … [Read more...]