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Maybe I should stop waiting for something to write about and go find something to write about instead…
Vox is fun, but I have 5 years of content that I'm not ready to part with just yet.
In an effort to have the best of both worlds, I've set up a wordpress blog at http://blog.hooloovoo.net as a place to start pulling my different blogs together. Including a vox syndication page. (hooray for custom page templates.)
(This post is mostly to make sure that my syndication page is working properly)
Okay, we hate to ask, but... over the roll or under the roll?
When I was a kid, we were an "over the roll" family. When I moved out I remained "over the roll". That is, until the cats figured out how to unroll an "over the roll" set up. (Imagine my surprise when I came home from work to discover that the apartment interior had been TP'ed) We switched to "under the roll" because the cats could spend all day spinning the roll and only damage a small percentage of it with their claws.
Of course, now that the cats have gone to live with grandma, we're back to "over the roll"
I never understood what all the fuss was about, anyway. It all ends up in the same place at the end.
I really HAVE been posting between August of last year and today. It was sporadic, at best and was being done over at my other blog home, http://g-blog.net.
G-Blog has been around since 2001, and had developed a really great core group of people. G-Blog is shutting it's doors at the end of the month, and I haven't totally decided where I'm going to move to. Gossip, the maintainer of G-Blog, provided a handy export utility for everyone's content, so I haven't lost any data. Gossip even wrote a WP import script (mostly because he was moving his stuff to WP.) I've got my blog archive sitting on my web server right now, and I might set up a WP blog for it, or I might just build a static archive page with the data.
If Vox had an RSS 2.0 importer I move over here full-time in a second. (I may still switch to Vox full time, but being able to move my archive here would make the choice that much easier.)
Details on the data I'd personally like to import (in case anyone from Vox is reading): I've got about 500 entries (Dating back to December 2001) stored in an RSS 2.0 XML file. All the related comments are archived as well, making use of the RSS 2.0 Blogcomments module.
We've been doing a test run of the toddler bed for our son. He's just about to turn two, and is starting to get too big for the portable size crib we have.
Today was the first day since getting the bed that I had to work, so I was up before everyone else in the house. I peeked my head into the kid's room before leaving, and saw him konked out on the floor next to his bed. I just *had* to take a picture, even if it meant risking the flash waking him up.
Show us some rules.
My company is running an employee foosball tournament. The official rulebook is posted near the table in the break room. Why it's behind glass in a locked display case, I'm not sure.
Take a photo of something striped.
My first thought was to take a picture of a machine in the lab with a striped disk array, but someone beat me to it. (its up on vox somewhere - go hunting for it :P) So instead, here is a picture of the solar powered car I have on my desk.
My 60G black iPod, Onyx started behaving strangely earlier this week. It was sluggish to respond to button clicks, everything was displaying the same (broken) image for it's album art, and it was no longer being recognized by iTunes on eaither of my two XP machines. What's more, XP no longer saw it as an iPod when it was connected. It just saw an unformatted mass storage device.
I went through the troubleshooting steps outlined on the apple website. I even wiped it out and did a fresh software restore. (and in so doing - wiped out some things I had purchased in the ITMS, but hadn't backed up yet. *grumble*)
Still no joy neither of my machines could see my iPod - what's more, when I checked the status on my iPod, I had 0 songs and 0 pictures, but only 3GB os space left.
Resigned to the fact that my 3 month and 12 day old iPod was beyond my abilty to restore, I took it to the Apple Store in the mall near where I work on my lunch break today. Being a saturday afternoon just a few weeks before most schools start up, the place was packed (both the mall and the Apple Store.)
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"Uh-oh..." I think as I headed for the Genius bar, "this is going to suck." I'm instructed to sign in to the concierge system to get an appointment, (yep - this is going to suck...) and am surprised to see an appointment available at 1:00. "Only a 15min wait - that's not so bad..."
I space around the store for a few minutes, and soon find myself infront of a 30 inch CinemaDisplay connected to a brand new MacPro desktop machine. I take a picture of myself in photoboth and send it to my gmail account.
(Hey, moron who was using the computer before me to check your email... yeah - you... for the love of god, don't leave yourself logged in to your .mac email account when you leave. I could have learned all sorts of interesting things about you that you probably wish I didn't. You're lucky I'm not a malicious person. All I did was log your account off for you. You'r welcome. Try to be more careful next time.)
Just then, my name comes up and I'm called over to the Genius Bar. I explain my problem and the steps I have already taken to my Genius. "Okay, sounds like the software restore didn't take, let me take a look..." I hand over my troubled device, and he connects it to the MacBook on the desk.
"That's odd, the mac recognizes it - but isn't mounting it correctly..." He futzes around with it a bit more as I wait. I assume that he's re-applying the software restore. "Okay - iTunes sees it now. Let me test it in Windows." He turns around and connects it to another MacBook. (You gotta love those new intel based machines...) "Wierd - iTunes doesn't see it here, but it works on OS X."
He grins at me. "Well, you've got a couple of choices. I can sell you a new Mac so you can connect this iPod to it, or I can just replace it for you."
"As much as I like that first option, I don't have the room in my budget." I reply.
"Okay - replacement iPod it is." He says, "hang on just a sec."
He prints up a return form for me to sign and ducks down to a cabinet to pull out a brand new iPod. I sign the form, and he registeres the new serial number to my AppleCare extended warranty, (Yay) noting that it is a replacement device.
I'm all set to go with my shiny new (scratch free!) black iPod, and I even have enough time to swing by Grain D'or to grab a sandwich on my way back out to my car.
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I'm back in the office (with a couple of minutes to spare) and Onyx, (Well, Onyx the second, but we'll just call her Onyx.) is happily synching with iTunes as I write this. I won't have any music until I get home, but at least I'll be able to listen to some podcasts on the way. I figure I only lost about $40 worth of content from ITMS, and I'll be much more diligent about backing up those music purchases in the future.
What's one thing that you'd like to get done this weekend? Is there anything holding you back?
The one thing I'd like to get done this weekend it some laundry. I am out of socks. The two things holding me back right now is the fact that I have to work today, and tomorrow I'd have to fight for the washer and dryer. (Small apartment complex - 6 units, only one washer and dryer, and everyone wants to use it on the weekend.) Good thing I have Monday and Tuesday off. I'll probably get the laundry done then.
Hooray for sandals!
