This morning when I woke up (Happy Easter, by the way!), I found that my blog was down. At first, I thought there might be some hosting issues but I quickly found this wasn’t the case as that both my plain website was fine and also another (test) blog was up. Since I am running [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Technology’
WordPress 2.5 Release Candidate
WordPress 2.5 Release Candidate 1 was released yesterday. With my blog, I tend to be bleeding edge so I installed it. It went up with no trouble. The UI for administrators is a nice change though it seems a little slower at this point. It will take some getting used to. There are some features [...]
Applescript and MacJournal
I’ve never done any Applescript but I thought I would give it a try. I still had some work to do to finish off my migration work that Applescript sounded like the perfect tool for (the migration for my blog history from Ecto/Wordpress to my new blog tool MacJournal). In looking at Applescript, I’ve discovered [...]
New MacBook Pro
Well, I returned the old model and ordered the new model and now it’s here. I’ve been installing apps and setting up apps. I’m nearly done. It’s very peppy. I hope to use it for some work that I do with the boys school (PTSA stuff) and also my guitar work. I’m also going to [...]
Importing old blog post entries
I’ve been busy working on a project to import all my old blog post entries into MacJournal. It is taking a while because the format for import is not the same as the export for WordPress and so takes a lot of manipulation with the output. If I was more effective with Automator or another [...]
Email Newsletter Subscription Option
I’ve been wanting to have the option for readers of my blog to be able to subscribe via email but the options for WordPress blogs have not been to my liking. I’ve come across one that seems like it has the features that I like. If I’ve got it configured correctly, the newsletter will come [...]
Our HDTV Update
If you remember a few posts ago, I mentioned that our 5 year old HDTV died. Kathy was just watching it and the picture went off and a light on the front panel started blinking. Generally not good. As a customer of this Pioneer Elite Rear Screen Projection TV (which is no longer made), we [...]
MacJournal – Update
I’ve been playing/using MacJournal’s trial for about 12 hours now. It seems to do everything I want including updates, tags, separate journals for Blogs, private diaries, and even imports. The imports are difficult and take a lot of work but they do happen. The imports do lose some information like tags but the data that [...]
Impatience got the best of me
Ok, even though there were some rumors floating around I discounted them. I mean, when isn’t there an Apple rumor floating around about some new Mac or iPod or new piece of software or update or some such? This year there has been something delivered every Tuesday but I guessed that Apple was pacing themselves. [...]
Our 5 year old HDTV died
We owned a first generation HDTV from Pioneer – a Pioneer Elite Pro 730HD. The picture is great and the size has been great for our space. Unfortunately, we have had several problems with it though. We have had problems with the tubes/guns not showing the image correctly and needing to be replaced – not [...]
Mitchell’s using a Mac
At first I had Mitchell using an old Windows laptop but, man, it was painful. He was having a lot of problems and they were all due to the fact that the laptop is really slow and the websites today all have increased requirements on a system, it seems. I’ve been thinking about upgrading my [...]
VMWare’s Fusion
In using VMWare’s Fusion (and before that Parallels), I have been using a Boot Camp partition but only because I had initially set up a Boot Camp partition. I think I kept it because I thought to myself if there was some compatibility issues, I could just boot into Boot Camp and run the s/w [...]
Kathy’s been using Facebook as a kind of community location for several of her friends and she’s been having fun with it. She likes some of the Facebook applications like Scrabulous. As the dumb grunt of a husband, I figured I’d follow my lovely wife’s lead and check this out so I signed up. I [...]
Dance Dance Revolution
We got a Wii over Christmas and the family (yes, kids and adults) have been having fun with it. I got a game for Kathy but she wanted a different game instead so we returned the game and ordered Dance Dance Revolution (DDR for short). It was on back order but we got it yesterday [...]
Wireless Speakers
I have a need to put in 2 speakers in a certain location in my house (they happen to be in a bathroom area) and wireless would be a convenient way to go but… wireless speakers still need some form of power and that means battery or AC battery powered speakers need to be turned [...]