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I bet Hell is sort of like this, only not so hot and with less running
We went down to San Diego this weekend to run the AFC (America’s Finest City) Half Marathon. We’ve run it before, but this year was special, in a couple of less than great ways. First there was the traffic down there. Who knew that the entire population of California was going down to San Diego
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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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Sometimes it’s all about the journey
This past Sunday we had our long-awaited planning meeting for all of the folks who are running the Medoc marathon with us in September. Why a planning meeting, you may wonder? Well, we have to coordinate our costumes, of course! See, almost everybody who runs the Medoc marathon runs in a costume. Some time ago
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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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Why stop with a second coming?
Remember my woeful tale of Bob the iPhone, and his premature demise? Prepare yourselves for Chapter Two: The Death of Jesus the iPhone. Yes, that’s right, my second iPhone officially bit the dust today at the Apple Store. Poor Jesus was pronounced dead about 2:30pm this afternoon. Cause of death: a failed accelerometer (that just
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