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Friday, May 09, 2008 Rebinding the Shortcuts Okay, how retarded am I? I'm actually happy, I'm downright gleeful, to have discovered the way to edit keyboard shortcuts in InDesign. I work with Corel Ventura the last eight years and I can put a book together in my sleep with it. But we're trying to integrate Adobe because the rest of the world uses it and it's been a royal pain in ass1. I keep hitting keys thinking they'll resize the spread, instead, it opens the swatch panel. Or worse--tries to close the program. But now, I can reorient those bad boys more to my liking (although I can't seem to get Redo to work like I want it). But I feel like I just made my job about 50% easier. Yah! 1. And why is "because everyone else is doing it" not a good enough excuse to engage in any other behavior, except business software? Ventura is extremely good at what it does, it's probably the best page-layout software I've ever worked with. Heck, it's almost friendly. Versus things like Quark which will sucker punch you and steal your woman the first chance it gets. Yet we have to make some effort to at least use InDesign semi-regularly simply because everyone else is. The best does not always rise to the top, when mediocrity has a ginormaous advertising budget. posted by Evil Wayne | 3:52 PM 0 comments Friday, May 02, 2008 Serial Friday: Myra 1.10 The next installment is up: Myra 1.10. So for those keeping score, this is the second in a year. Mmm... a lot fewer than the once or twice a month I was originally shooting for. Or maybe we could just look at it under the Better-Late-Than-Never heading? Correxs: Reformatted the whole template: justified the text to make it easier to read; removed some spacing throughout; removed some links from the nav panel. Fixed a bad break in 1.6. Rewrote a few awkward lines at the end of 1.7 (more like deleted). posted by Evil Wayne | 10:06 AM 0 comments Tuesday, April 22, 2008 100k My car hit 100,000 miles today, right as I was pulling into my parking spot at work this morning (I'm sure that means something).  I could have driven around the Earth about 4 times (at the equator no less). Instead, the farthest this car has gone from here is Southern Maine. This car has traveled the world. But in typical New England style, the world is confined to a 200-mile radius of Boston. 90% of which is within the 495 belt. posted by Evil Wayne | 1:26 PM 0 comments Monday, April 21, 2008 Cape II: The Surreal Redux Yet another trip to the Cape this weekend. Same place, but this time no kids. The first time Tine and I have been without a child present in three years (which was also a trip to the Cape). Had another great weekend with Tine and I'm worried that I'm about to jinx it in some way. Things have been looking up. I hope it continues, because it's actually starting to feel like everything might actually end up being alright. The weather was excellent again. Warmer, but still cool. Zero clouds. And another full moon at night. Awesome. We stayed in the same place, a house in a neighborhood of rental houses near the beach (I should try to post some pics). But it was just as empty as beforehand. Our big outing this time was a used book store in Chatham. I picked up some new age CD that was playing while we were browsing. It's all this lonely reed and piano. When we got back, I put it on loop and it added to that strange feeling of isolation being in a cluster houses that are all empty. The whole thing took on this unreal quality, especially Sunday morning. It's bright and sunny, yet there doesn't appear to be another human being for miles. posted by Evil Wayne | 1:38 PM 2 comments Thursday, April 10, 2008 Eight: Small Appliances Today is my 8th year anniversary at work. Yippiee. I took this job because I needed work and I figured I'd keep looking. Sort of use it as an in-between. I didn't even buy a long sleeve shirt until December, I was so sure I wasn't staying long. (I've probably written that before.) And now I'm still here. I'm the only one still here. Seriously, I am the only full-time EP left (which is what makes my title as Senior EP so ridiculous). Rebecca's still here and she's got about 6 weeks seniority over me, but she's an editor. Should that count? Probably. So, here's a list of production people who've passed on since I started: 01. Sean F. Editor 2000 02. Patrick P. Editor 2000 03. John W. Editor 2000 04. Katie Mc. Editor 2000 05. Kat S. Production 06/2001 06. Skippy Weenie 06/2001 07. John E. EP 08/2002 08. Jenn K. Editor 12/2002 09. Steve C. Porn Star 08/2003 10. Jill S. Editor 06/2004 11. Jason P. EP 06/2005 12. Kate R. Editor 12/2005 13. Don H. EP 06/2006 Some of these people I actually miss. posted by Evil Wayne | 1:43 PM 0 comments |
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