sunday, december 19, 2004
Albedo, blogs, blast, XP
notes to myself.
albedo is both:
- The fraction of incident electromagnetic radiation reflected by a surface, especially of a celestial body.
- The spongy white tissue on the inside of the rind of citrus fruit.
to do: marvel. oh, and look it up when i return to the oed-owning parent’s house.
realclimate’s critique of state of fear reminds me of language log’s critique of the davinci code. this is good stuff - groups of experts in specific fields responding to current events and criticizing dumb books in a place where the everyday person (me!) can read it.
to do: when technorati comes back up, figure out whether other people have made this connection. if not, rewrite with quotes and opinions.
to do: write an account of what happened with the third issue of the blast. excitement! controversy! an overbearing principal! the right to free speech! a really tame newspaper! yeah.
how do i stop windows xp from automatically clicking things when i hover over them? aaah! google is no help. i wonder if this is a hardware/driver problem; i’m using my mom’s gateway laptop.
comments (2)
Re the laptop problem, if you are using a mousepad on a laptop: I found when using my housemate's laptop that I was accidentally clicking on things by lifting my finger off the mousepad slightly and then settling it back down - it is set to click when you tap the pad, and my small movement was enough for the mousepad to think I was tapping. If you're not using the mousepad, then good luck figuring it out :(
– louise on 12/19/2004 14:50:26
ah ha! yeah, i'm using the trackpad. when i'm back at mom's house, i'll test out the tapping thing. thanks!
– britta on 12/19/2004 20:08:06
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