Random and Opinionated Thoughts

by: Jennifer Zelazny

Life

Fun Weekend of Cooking

I work hard all week and generally work harder on the weekends. I love cooking for my family and friends and this weekend I cooked up a storm. I made multiple batches of some of my favorites for holiday gifts, and then some fun habanero sauces for me and my hot sauce loving son.

Life

Enjoying the Pool in Florida!!

While our Chicagoland friends were walking in 0-10 degree temperatures, we spent a few days with family in Florida which was in the 80s. The kids spent as much time in the pool as we let them and were very happy to be warm and in the sun.

Hints

Hidden Skype Emoticons

Looking to make your Skype conversations a little more interesting? Check out hidden emoticons for Skype: http://www.skype-emoticons.com

CSS

CSS Font Families Made Easy

If you are looking for font family code – check out CSS Font Stack. You can chose your font, and with a click of your mouse – copy the entire family for your use.

HOWTOs

Transfer Backups to New Drive with Time Machine

A great article on how to properly move your Time Machine backups to a new drive: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5096?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US (You will need to follow the directions or you will get errors simply trying to move the files.)

HOWTOs

HOWTO: Kill the Dock in Mac OS X

Today I ran into a situation on my computer where the dock would not show after a restart. If this ever happens – you can easily fix it by opening up the Terminal application (Applications > Utilities > Terminal) and then type in the following code then hit the return button. Within a few minutes […]

HOWTOs

How To Create a Grayscale PDF on Mac OS X

This morning I had to send over a PDF file to the printer and they wanted my color version in greyscale. To create a greyscale version of a PDF there are a few steps you need to follow: Go to the File menu and click “Print”. Once you are there – click on the PDF […]

Random

Who Killed JFK – Lose Your Own Adventure Book

When I was a kid – my favorite books were the “Choose Your Own Adventure” books. I still remember spending hours reading them, ending up in different scenarios, and never getting to the outcome I wanted in my favorite Indiana Jones book. While looking at despair.com to see if there were any new demotvational posters […]