My first post on OS X Leopard…
The upgrade went relatively smoothly although there were some issues. It seems the USB external is not bootable so my backup clone is iffy. As well the Apache and php directories are all changed so I edited the httpd.conf file about 4 times before I got the right one. Otherwise time will tell.

More later…

Google Docs & You!

Apparently you can publish straight to your blog from Google Docs if you have the correct API. More and more I’m liking the Google collaborative thing. Now if only they don’t turn into another Microsoft… sigh.

A new flash toy from RockYou.com featuring lovely Carol Dragich’s lovely ladies…

Apparently you can embed your calendar on a web page…hmmm
According to the code it uses an iframe to put the actual calendar from google.

This one is actually one of my work calendars from iCal that google calendar subscribes to that I’ve in turn posted here…

I was trying to make an avatar for my screen presence on RockClimbing .com and had submitted this image. Samantha was kind enough to pose for the web cam whilst I was using the Glow filter. Alas, the image was rejected as not being climbing-related so I leave it to you, the unseen web-browsing audience (at least those who have not yet been driven away by badly-mediocre poetry), to enjoy

The issue was the clock on my computer got reset to May 2006 when they replaced the board…thus no posts after that date where displayed. I can only assume that eventually, as computer time rolled forward, that they would reappear in their proper place.

L’s new wheels behind her old wheels…she bought herself an Xmas present!

Whoo hoo, my mac is back. One fried logic board, one shot fan and a 1.5 month absence and I’m back in business. Only problem is that the last few months of entries won’t display…

More soon.

Found on a small white instruction sheet accompanying a logo’d mini fm radio:

TO PRESS RESET AND DIGIT TURNING
BUTTON SCAN ONCE PRESS, THE
RADIO WILL IN ORDER UPWARD
AUTOMATICALLY HUNTING AND LOCK
TO FIX, MAY LISTEN TO
88-108mhZ BROADCAST.

Made in China? I sure hope so…

A quick rerspective in flash of my yard from the last 6 years. I was toying with iPhoto and SWF ‘n Slide. It actually is as easy as dragging the images from iPhoto into SWF ‘n Slide, setting the preferences and exporting. It even exports an html page so you can rip off the code to embed it in your website.

[edit]As you can see it seems to screw up firefox on a pc. I’m working to strip down the embed code and see if it clarifies things…[end edit]

[edit November 20/06]Fixed it… seems it had something to do with the line breaks in the code.
It works fine if there are no line breaks…sigh[end edit]

I missed the season’s premier of Aaron Sorkin’s new show Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip because, well frankly I forgot the Aaron Sorkin had a new show. So a few nights a go as the second episode was about to air I thought to myself ” hmmm, there’s gotta be away…”

I checked out nbc.com and lo and behold they actually had it available on line… e xcept in my area…sigh. I’m assuming its one of those Canada – U.S. things that prevents us from getting tv shows and movies from iTunes. But it did mean that the files were available and that someone, somewhere must have been clever enough to download them.

A quick google and… voila.

It seems there was a torrent file out there. I’ve never used a torrent client before having pretty much given up my software stealing ways and becoming addicted to iTunes for music downloads. Nevertheless about 10 minutes later I was busy downloading the stream on my PC and approximately 1 hour later I was watching the .avi file full screen on my iMac using VLC (as Quicktime player wouldn’t work). Meanwhile I set up the PC (an HP tv convertor and Windows Media edition) to record the the next episode just in case I didn’t get finished with episode 1. As it happened I finished the first episode about 10 minutes before the second one came on the air.

The point… we really are living in an on-demand culture!