June 30, 2008
June 28, 2008
Snow Leopard cannot get here fast enough
As if the hosting disaster weren’t bad enough, my laptop is increasingly unstable. For months, it’s been refusing to shut all the way down, failing on Time Machine backups, and generally being flaky. Today it’s suddenly much worse. It has stopped recognizing my USB hub, and now Numbers and Excel are both crashing on startup. (I CAN’T HAZ SPREDSHEET.)
Also crashing on startup? SuperDuper, which I need to make a good backup since Time Machine isn’t working. And I need at least one good backup before I can wipe this thing and reinstall from scratch, which appears to be needed. I’ve tried repairing the disk and permissions, archive & installing… nothing’s working.
I want to curl up and cry. Because it’s not like this happened in the middle of a big freelance job or anything.
My machines were always so reliable before Leopard…
If geeks talked about cookbooks the way they talk about RPG books
If geeks talked about cookbooks the way they talk about RPG books
June 27, 2008
Hobbling
So my host had a rather catastrophic disk failure on Wednesday. After much thrashing around, they’ve restored us using an old file backup. The databases are fine (otherwise you wouldn’t be seeing this), but files and email were restored from May 15. They might be able to recover the rest, but they might not.
For this site, that means not much lost — some of our trip photos, and the Utilikilt one, but I can restore those when I get some spare time. More troubling is the fact that if you’ve emailed me since May 15, I no longer have a copy. (Update: lost mail recovered.) And if it was in the last 48 hours, I didn’t see it at all. (Update: this mail still lost.)
Most of the other sites I host are fine. The less-used ones hadn’t been touched since before the backup, and are fine apart from some possibly lost email.
Seekrit Project #1… well, this is a setback.
My online writing group is inexplicably dead in the water, even though it should be running with just the recent file attachments missing. That one gets priority.
June 23, 2008
Text Prefs
Text Prefs — a UK design firm is conducting a survey on web users’ text preferences. Tell them how you like it! They promise to publish the results when they’re done.
June 19, 2008
The only question
‘There is no longer any doubt that the current administration committed war crimes,’ Taguba says. ‘The only question is whether those who ordered torture will be held to account. (via BB)
June 17, 2008
Status
Major work project #1: 90% done.
Major work project #2: ... yeah, I should get started on that.
Seekrit project #1: 99% done. Waiting on other people1 and, predictably, a bugfix for IE6.
Seekrit project #2: 80% done.
Seekrit project #3: at best 5% done, but got a jump start this week.
Steph: 100% tired.
1 While I’m waiting on others, if you have PHP on your web server and would like to beta test a little something — it won’t take long — leave a comment and I’ll email you the details.
June 16, 2008
Fizzy Geography
Fizzy Geography — should your character call it “soda,” “pop,” “Coke,” or something else? Depends which county they live in (or came from).
June 15, 2008
iPhone 3G’s True Price Compared
If you’re thinking of getting a new iPhone, this price comparison might be useful.
June 13, 2008
In the Garden of Iden
This week’s free Tor ebook is In the Garden of Iden, by Kage Baker. I love this book. If you haven’t read the Company series, here’s your opportunity for a free sample. Tor’s wallpapers this week are pretty great, too.
June 12, 2008
The Sock Obama
The Sock Obama — 100% pure hand-knitted offensiveness! And in breaking news elsewhere, Fox News is staffed entirely by racist morons. Oh, wait, we knew that.
June 10, 2008
The Keynote: Dramatic coverage of WWDC 2008… in several acts!
The Keynote: Dramatic coverage of WWDC 2008… in several acts! — hysterical
June 9, 2008
Kucinich introducing articles of impeachment
Kucinich introducing articles of impeachment — he’s got 35 of ‘em, and he’s reading them all. Iraq, Iran, Valerie Plame, the attorney firings — it’s all there. I don’t think this is going to fly, but I love Kucinich to pieces for doing it. (Care to write your rep?)
