Category: techie geek stuff

  • Yikes!

    Over the long weekend I received a couple of invites to a new social networking site. Guess what? It’s a fake, and if you join it can spam your contacts! The site is called Quechup. Don’t accept the invites! Read more here. And if I inadvertently spammed anybody, my apologies! I don’t think I did,…

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  • The one about the iPhone that kept working!

    I’ve been having to do so many downer entries on iPhones, given my horrible track record, that I thought I’d do a post that’s all about how cool they are. My fourth iPhone, which has NEVER come into contact with my evil G5, has worked flawlessly from the git-go. So yesterday I explored the wonderful…

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  • One week plus and still working!

    He Who Must Not Be Named is one week old today, and is still working! Perfectly in fact. This is an official record for me. I have not once synced it to my G5, which reinforces my feeling that it was the culprit. In the past couple of months, a hard drive, the DVD drive,…

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  • Well, this must be SOME sort of record…

    After a mere ten days, Pip the iPhone crapped out. Yes, kids, if you’re counting these things that is the THIRD iPhone I’ve had that has died. This one seemed to suffer from a bad network card – either that or a bug that kept it from sleeping correctly. The screen would go dark, then…

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  • Phew! Upgrade to MT 4.0 complete…

    I just finished upgrading our movable Type installation from m3.4 to 4.0. Wow! It wasn’t the hardest thing, but it wasn’t the easiest either. I had a bit of a time making the archive templates all work correctly. the interface is WAY different. It actually looks more like blogger.com now.

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  • So far, so good

    It’s Day Three in the life of Pip, my third iPhone. So far, he’s working like a trooper – rotates vertically and horizontally like nobody’s business and is syncing just fine, too. Yay! Could be they heard me making nasty noises about Nokia phones so decided it was time to start behaving like good little…

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