Author: iversonic

For a few years I wrote PageMaker and Acrobat Q&A sections for Adobe Magazine. This is the March/April 1995 column. The article is scanned into Acrobat and its OCR functionality was used to recognize the text. While OCR is a wonderful invention, the cleanup process (I pasted the content into Word and did it there)…

For a few years I wrote PageMaker and Acrobat Q&A sections for Adobe Magazine. This is the March/April 1995 column. The article is scanned into Acrobat and its OCR functionality was used to recognize the text. While OCR is a wonderful invention, the cleanup process (I pasted the content into Word and did it there)…

For a few years I wrote PageMaker and Acrobat Q&A sections for Adobe Magazine. This is the March/April 1995 column. The article is scanned into Acrobat and its OCR functionality was used to recognize the text. While OCR is a wonderful invention, the cleanup process (I pasted the content into Word and did it there) […]

For a few years I wrote PageMaker and Acrobat Q&A sections for Adobe Magazine. This is the January/February 1995 column. The article is scanned into Acrobat and its OCR functionality was used to recognize the text. While OCR is a wonderful invention, the cleanup process (I pasted the content into Word and did it there) is […]

Back in the 1990’s when working in Technical Support for Adobe I volunteered to write the Question and Answer section for PageMaker in Adobe magazine. Gen X oldsters may recall that Adobe acquired Aldus around November of 1994, which corresponds with Aldus Magazine’s transition to Adobe Magazine. My first few columns were about PageMaker, which […]

Better late than never, here’s my Best of 2016 music list. I’m sure there are forgotten records that will pop into my head tomorrow, so it shouldn’t be considered complete. Records – Nocturnal Koreans by Wire – Like the Swans, Wire are an old band who never really put out a horrible record and are on […]

As a music geek, one of my greatest anticipations going into fatherhood was influencing my daughter with all the wonderful esoteric and mainstream sounds I’ve acquired over the years. For me, music took hold at an early age, though I assumed it was that way for everyone. Only later did I realize I was one […]

The hardest part is the blank page.  With those seven words the page is no longer blank.  One hurdle down… As long as I can remember there’s been something inside trying to be heard or read.  In my obsessive record collecting youth it was the former.  Records accompanied me home under my collegiate arm, usually […]

My last post discussed the horror of discovering my blog was dead and the troubleshooting to discover the cause was a database deleted during a power outage at one of my hosting company’s data centers. This post outlines how to bring the blog back to life in three steps. 1. RESUSCITATE THE DATABASE The first step […]

This is my second post about blogging and regrettably it’s about resuscitating a flat-out dead WordPress site. The ultimate cause is the mystery disappearance of the backbone of a WordPress blog, its database. Hopefully this doesn’t happen to you, but if it does, perhaps this post, which covers diagnosing the problem, and my next, which […]