I always intend to update this web site more frequently, but for short updates I tend to just post on Twitter or Facebook. And for longer updates I often start writing something and then get side tracked. So I’m going to try something different and start posting a periodic, perhaps weekly, digest.
WordPress 3.0 has been released. At some point in the near future I am going to upgrade this site and overhaul the theme. I’m not as thrilled with this layout as I’d like to be. Most likely because I stopped working on it in the middle of the project. Story of my life.
I upgraded my MacBook to OS X 10.6.4 last week. Unfortunately that broke my Time Machine backups. I’ve been using my Ubuntu server as a Time Machine backup system but with 10.6.4 it started verifying the backup and suggested I clear out the old backup and start from scratch. I wasn’t so worried about my backup history so I decided to do that but then I couldn’t get it to back up again. After much frustration and failed attempts at upgrading my Ubuntu server to get a newer version of netatalk I realized that the actual problem was that I needed to create the com.apple.TimeMachine.MachineID.plist file under the sparse bundle and add the following XML:
<?xml version=“1.0” encoding=“UTF-8”?> <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC “-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN” “http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd”> <plist version=“1.0”> <dict> <key>com.apple.backupd.HostUUID</key> <string>YOURUUIDHERE</string> </dict> </plist>
I try to make notes of this sort of thing in my wiki knowledge base, but in this case I left that step out. That was a time costly mistake.
I’m going to upgrade to an iPhone 4 in the near future. I’m still on the original 3G which is getting a little long in the tooth and the volume button just fell off which cemented my decision to upgrade. I considered preordering but I think I’ll wait until they are more general availability in case any problems start to be reported. Apparently there are issues with holding the antenna causing signal problems but that’s not a showstopper for me since I will no doubt get a case for it.
My friend Ken Foreman posted some example pictures on Facebook of panoramic pictures taken with the iPhone app Autostitch. I never use my iPhone camera but with the iPhone 4’s higher quality camera I expect I will start using it more and will definitely have to give Autostitch a try.
I mentioned the other day that I downloaded MacJournal to try as an offline composer. I’m writing this update with MacJournal and while I think it’s going to work well as private journaling software it’s not a great blog writer. It seems to be missing features such as posting items as drafts, etc. So I’m going to look for different OS X blog composition software.
And for today’s media item, my friend told me about this video on YouTube of a Lego printer someone made. It’s pretty impressive!