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- Just reinstalled my Mac Pro and my dreaded video problem persists. I’m worried this is hardware related. Ugh.
- Slowly rebuilding my Mac Pro. Tedious, but not terribly unpleasant.
- Worth noting, my Mac Pro video problems persist although it isn’t freezing at least as much. I’m almost positive a repair visit is needed.
- Feeling fairly stupid having trouble migrating to WP 2.5 built-in avatar support and ditching Gravatar plugin. Ugh.
- Avatar success! Magic is:
<?php echo get_avatar($comment, '50'); ?>and it does everything, entire IMG tag. - I cannot even begin to express how much I love the Search Regex WP plugin. It has saved me hours!
- A little overwhelmed by how much cleanup work I need to do on my blog. Not WP 2.5 related, just years of messy junk.
- Changed my whole permalink structure and have done everything I can to make it right. Wondering how much of a hit I’ll take from Google.
Good Luck to Hector in Ironman Arizona
My brother-in-law Hector is racing in Ironman Arizona this weekend!
On Sunday morning he is going to do the epic 2.4 mile swim, 112 mile bike and 26.2 mile run. It’s a pretty amazing feat, and it’s his 2nd Ironman (he did Ironman Wisconsin last year).
His bib number is 297 and you can follow his progress yourself at Ironman Live.
Hector’s put in countless hours of training, and having one Ironman under his belt is no longer a rookie to the race. I expect he’s going to do awesome.
Good luck Hec! Rock it!
Update: Hector just finished the Arizona Ironman. He put in an awesome time of 10:57:50 and placed 191st position overall. Awesome job dude! I’ll add a link here to his post-race write-up in a few days.
CSSEdit just saved me major pain and anguish. Happy.
Continued refining and thinning of household “junk”. So much more to do. Simplify.
Tammy is doing her first iMovie project and it looks really great. This is why iMovie made the right move. Timeline, schmimeline.
Why is it so predictable that the one button Mazie would be most obsessed with on my MacBook Pro is the POWER button.
One of the tweets highlighted in my MarketWatch Farewell Video.
Very annoyed that I cannot just download a Google Earth installer anymore. You are forced to download the Google Updater and use it!?
Reading about directed acyclic graphs.
Question: is there ever a case where “utilize” is more appropriate than “use”?
Related: See word lists.
Matinee movie! Leatherheads.
Watching 60 Minutes on TiVo. Nice to see Al Gore has upgraded to Leopard.
How Software Is Built Interview
A few weeks ago I got the opportunity to do a phone interview with Scott Swigart and Sean Campbell who are doing a series of interviews regarding How Software Is Built. The interview was a lot of fun and really hit around the general theme of how open source is changing the way software is created. It is long, but I think it came out pretty well.
(Update 2024): The original site for this interview no longer exists but you can still read it via Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine.
One of the tweets highlighted in my MarketWatch Farewell Video.
Getting tired of the more and more elaborate April Fools things from various Internet sites. Perhaps I’m being lame.
Heading to The Bulldog for early ruby.mn fun.
Seems the USB hub in one of my Dell monitors is dead. 1 hour of my life wasted.
Watching Clifford Stoll’s TED video. Dude seems totally insane.
Enabling Time Machine via network drive for all Macs.