• Quark Opinions Cross The Pond

    Not only am I the top two hits on Google for “Quark Sucks”, but my opinions on the Quark-InDesign war are being quoted and referenced all over the place. My posts have been cited on several blogs, and I’ve even had correspondance from Adobe employees and former Quark employees send me correspondance regarding my editorials.…

  • How Spam Can Happen

    This is how a single lapse in e-mail address dilligence two years ago can result in an ongoing flood of hundreds of spam messages per week. As you know my system was down for a couple of weeks while I moved. This morning “go through my e-mail” was at the top of my To Do…

  • Undeletable File Deleted

    Every morning for the last two weeks I’ve been distressed to find my primary Windows XP system blue screened when I walk into my home office. The problem, I discovered pretty quickly, was with Safety_Net, my home network’s large backup drive. Within the folder H: ImaginationBox – Primary Daily Sunday Documents and Settings Pariah Local…

  • Quark Chief’s Nuts Yield Poor Return

    Macworld UK–Quark chief’s nuts yield poor return “ Quark CEO Fred Ebrahimi’s family nut holdings dropped in value yesterday after sales slipped. Ebrahimi and family holds 12 per cent of the shares in Macadamia Orchards–Hawaii’s biggest macadamia nuts grower. Macadamia Orchards announced a five per cent drop in its nuts revenues for its third quarter…

  • Life Cycle of DTP

    PageMaker, a true piece of history, birthed the Desktop Publishing Revolution, leading it through its infancy. Quark was the adolesence of the burgeoning Desktop Publishing industry, rebellious and impetuous. InDesign is the Publishing and Layout industry all grown up, mature, sophisticated, confidant, freeing.

  • Microsoft Fires Mac Fan For Blog Photo

    Once again, be careful what you blog. The most innocuous thing may get you fired, just like Michael Hanscom of Seattle, WA, recently terminated by Microsoft for mentioning that MSCopy (the Microsoft in-house print shop) was located in the same building as Shipping & Receiving. Before condemning Microsoft for being an evil, paranoid ogre, you…