Urban Onramps

We ordered Dreamweaver through TechSoup all the way back in the winter. We received all the items we ordered (InDesign, Microsoft Office, etc.) except that one. I’ve waited for months for Adobe to make more of the downloadable product available, but nothing happened until two weeks ago. I emailed a request to the TechSoup people, and they replied by saying that they’ve been authorized to send a boxed copy for the same price (25 bucks, I think). All good. So I’m still waiting. Not that I have very much that I do with Dreamweaver anymore, since I maintain the Harambee site using Wordpress, this blog is in Wordpress, and I’m updating my article archive using wordpress. I had to do something funny the other day, however, and I really needed a stand-alone HTML editor with some power. So I’ll keep waiting, but I’m really hoping to see this new Dreamweaver app this week.

My birthday is later this month, but we’re going to celebrate it tonight at Red Lobster. I dig Red Lobster, and I’m glad that Sam now loves shrimp (we munch on shrimp cocktail platters whenever Mom remembers to buy one on a Costco outing).

Air travel is a bazillion dollars. Unless you use American Airlines‘ “price and schedule” option in the “book a reservation” section of their web site. It will show you just about every flight they have that fits your general criteria, and it will tell you exactly what seats are available at what price. So I just found a $175 one-way ticket cross country. I stick with American, I’ve got status with them (which helps when you are trying to get the last standby seat on the mid-week flight from Chicago to LA), but I may fly Virgin America once or twice this summer.

Over the past 24 hours the wife and I have been doing massive Ofoto uploads. Kafi is doing scrapbooking (Creative Memories, etc.) and I’ve got lots of family photos in my iPhoto. So I think I’ve now learned what will break the internet in the future: downloading files is one thing, but uploading lots of stuff takes a LONG time. A long long long time. It slows down my computer while I’m trying to work. Oh well.

This entry was posted on Sunday, July 20th, 2008 at 4:56 pm.