Since I’ve just finished up working today I figured I’d post about it. Lately I’ve been putting time into a website for a real estate company. I’ve learned to dislike MLS companies. Anyway this is also an excuse to figure out how to post links from the iPhone.
The test server is (link removed) (forgot that there is no user bits yet, and would rather people not overly mutilate the database)
I write for you today this entry on the iPhone.
Wordpress has a decent (and free) app for blogging.
I’ve been plagued recently by the lack of firewire 400 (IEEE 1394a) ports on my iMac. To the point of considering getting a hub… the concept of a hub for firewire annoys me by it’s very nature since firewire is supposed to be daisy chained.
At any rate, my newer external drive enclosures are FW800/400/USB and have 2 FW800, 1 FW400, and 1 USB port on the back. I’d read in a comment on a post by Chase Jarvis that someone had daisy chained the new LaCie drives (1FW800, 1FW400, 1USB) by connecting to the 800 and then adding the second drive to the 400.
Long story short, I now have extra FW400 ports down where my drive arrays live (top shelf below my desk on my left) which is where I tend to keep my FW400 CF card reader. I even have the open port on my desk from the iMac itself. Life is glorious.
Posting on behalf of John, as he appears to have broken the internet. Aperture 2.0 gets the JMac seal of approval.
- Chris
Those who have been on AIM or Jabber the last couple of days have probably heard my full frustration with my multiple RAID failures over the past few days. At any rate, the replacement drives are here, the data from the failed drives has been recovered. As it looks to be a software (rather than hardware) failure in the RAID system I’ve chosen to keep using the old drives.
I have an Asus EeePC 701. It’s nice and shiny… shiny as in neat and über, not as in the finish, which is a very matte black.
It’s running Ubuntu 7.10 “Gutsy” now. I like it, it’s light and portable and subnotebooky and several of the keys are really, really hard to hit.
After a long wait, some hits and misses (the installer crashes on Leopard so the account won’t activate) and similar.
I am now online at my new house! Quite happy. Expect posts again soon. Maybe after I clean the boxes off of my office floor.
Well, I’m pretty much settled in again back here and over whatever sickness I just got through. I’ve got a couple thousand photos imported into my computer and Leopard is on order ($109 from Amazon, $20, free shipping).
I have some photos marked for Photo of the Day status that I am hoping to get set up tomorrow. Going to try to get a couple weeks worth uploaded tomorrow. The site deals with posting them at midnight for me.
On tags and categories: The new thing in the world is “tags” rather than “categories”. You might have noticed that I have started tagging posts and there is a tag cloud forming in the upper right. I intend to work toward increasing use of tags and decreasing use of categories. Each post will, eventually, end up in a single category and the number of categories will be reduced.
Upped the iMac to 4GB of memory. Aperture starts up (and loads the full library) in about 10 seconds now.
Also finished uploading the images that were used on this blog to flickr. About 90% of them anyway, didn’t have some.
