Just a quick note to let you know that parts of the site will be missing, mostly pictures, as I upgrade to the latest WordPress. I seem to have gotten everything updated except for Gallery. I’ve always had a love hate relationship with it and I think the hate side has won. I’m going to be galleries up to smugmug, and probably putting post graphics locally. This is going to be a little painful, mostly for me.
Pardon the dust.
This release of Java for Mac OS 10.5 adds Java SE 6 version 1.6.0_05 to your Mac.
This release does not change the default version of Java. This release is only for Mac OS X v10.5.2 and later, and should not be installed on earlier versions of Mac OS X. This release is for 64-bit Intel-based Macs only and cannot run on PowerPC-based or 32-bit Intel-based Macs.
Update: If you want to change the default Java runtime use the “Java Preferences” utility in /Applications/Utilities/Java. If you want to change it for command line shells you need to rearrange the order in the “Java Application Runtime Settings” section.
I’m too swamped to actual learn Git at the moment, but I’m not going to let that stop me from claiming my name at GitHub.
What is it?
Not only is Git the new hotness, it’s a fast, efficient, distributed version control system ideal for the collaborative development of software.
GitHub is the easiest (and prettiest) way to participate in that collaboration: fork projects, send pull requests, monitor development, all with ease.
- from the github main page
The Wikipedia page for Git provides a good overview of the tool.
There are some interesting features and solutions in Git, but to me I don’t see a compelling reason to leave Subversion just yet. It took a long time for Subversion to bake before it was well integrated into various toolsets and worked well across many platforms. I don’t have the luxury to not use many OSs, so I think it may be a while before Git is viable on Linux, Windows, and OS X and works with the tools I like.
I have to admit, I was part of the problem, but it is very hard to resist coming to the aid of another parent when challenged by a teenager. I woke up this morning and saw this tweet which I’ve edited to remove the actual phone number.
T+0h leolaporte My son Hank doesn’t believe I have so many followers. He says text him if you follow me here. 707 XXX-YYYY. Let’s see how many msgs he gets.
Not long after, this tweet appeared.
T+0h leolaporte OK that was a really bad idea. ;-)
I woke up in this period and couldn’t help but send my own text message to poor Hank. Telling him in fact that I did follow his dad on twitter.
Several hours later.
T+10h leolaporte Boy it sure is hard deleting old tweets. Pownce and Jaiku delete them right away. Guess Hank’s phone will be unusable today.
The damage assessment will come.
T+11h leolaporte I won’t know the total number of text messages Hank received until I get the bill, but it was in the thousands. He had to turn off the phone
And finally,
T+11h leolaporte I DDoSed my own son.
While it may be a little extreme you can’t help but cheer just a little. How many times are parents challenged with no real way to prove a child wrong. Will it prevent Hank from challenging Dad in the future, probably not, he is a teenager after all. Will it make him think twice, just maybe.
Oh and the score in the title, the number of Twitter users following Leo that had the opportunity to send a nice encouraging text to Hank.
We’ve decided to sell the boat. There are several reason for the decision
We’ve had a lot of good times on the boat both at home and away. My favorite trip was a week in Branson, MO. I was able to go out on a whim because it was in a slip a short walk from the condo.
Every once in a while, you have one of “those days”. April 10, 2008 was one of those days.
The day started around 3:40am when a wall of wind and water hit the house. Tornados are not uncommon so I do feel an obligation to check for them which weather like this happens. Confident that we weren’t about to land in the Oz, I crawled back in bed to enjoy the storm. I really do like sleeping when it’s raining.
Five minutes later, I’m awakened by the crickets of the computer age, the UPS on battery. Some demented person must have wasted a good part of their life to come up with that sound. Although, it’s not quite as bad as the chirp from a smoke alarm with a dying battery. After 15 minutes with no power, I crawl out of bed and successfully shut everything down. Afraid I might oversleep, I grab my mobile, set the alarm, and crawl back into bed.
Of course, I can’t fall back asleep. After locating a flashlight I spent 10 minutes locating the number for TXU’s power outage hotline. Keying it in my phone informs me that the number had been previously saved. I put it there to save myself some time after the last power outage. I call the hotline and report it, the automated attendant happily informs me that they have no idea when the power will be restored. I flop back in bed.
The mobile alarm functions as expected and I wake to the silence of the power impaired. At least there was hot water in the tank so we were able to clean up a bit. I had to figure out how to shave with limited lighting. I would say it was like camping, but honestly, who shaves on a camping trip. I would have blown it off, but I had to interview someone at the office today. On the positive side, the blood loss was kept to a minimum. Oh, and checking with TXU, still no word on when the power would be restored.
You would think that would be enough for today, but no. I forgot to mention that Alex and I were headed to American University tonight. Given that we live in the Dallas area, American Airlines is the easiest carrier to use for most flights. Guess who "forgot" to inspect their planes. Checking the website all morning the flight showed as on time. I went to lunch thinking we’re still going, come back and right before I race home, find out it’s been canceled.
To see if I can salvage the trip, I immediately try to get an agent. After sitting on hold for 15 minutes or so I actually get a live person, who then takes 20 minutes to tell me that there are not flights. I ask her to please schedule us for the same trip next week. Of course she says, let me put you on hold, where I sit for 15 minutes and then get disconnected. In the middle of this Alex gets to the house where he discovers that the garage door won’t open and he doesn’t have his house key. So I call American back, on my mobile this time and start driving home.
After 25 minutes I get another agent who is able to successfully reschedule us for the next week in only 20 minutes, with out loosing me when she had to put me on hold. A few minutes later I reach the house and let Alex in and then start trying to deal with the hotel and cars. Let me just say, dealing with the Expedia rep was fast, efficient, and painless. Oh, yes the power was on, It only took them 12 hours.
Relieved, I decided to check Facebook only to discover that a good friend was having a crisis, she couldn’t decide what color to paint her toenails. Thinking I could help I suggested maroon and white, apparently OU’s colors are crimson and cream, I had to apologize profusely, and now I know there is a difference. Oh and she chose cotton candy to celebrate Spring.
Finally, I didn’t forget to wish my mother a Happy Birthday. Given the rest of the day, I consider that a minor miracle.
My daughter and her friend Elana have alter egos – Sasha and Svetlana. For weeks they’ve been talking about recording videos about their “adventures”. For some reason, tonight was the night for filming episode 1, “Sasha and Svetlana - Cooking Like Soviets in Your Kitchen”.
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I’m always amazed at their creativity and ability to work on a shoestring. Oh, and Alex stars as “Vladimir”, he’s critical to the film.
Ok, if you’re on twitter, you need to jump over to the @rainbowteam and join by clicking follow. If you need to colorize your avatar Cali Lewis posted a rainbowteam.png to help you modify your avatar.
For the rest of you, zefrank wrote a post entitled "colorwar 2008" where he mused.
We used to play color wars at summer camp. Near the end of the year the entire camp would split up into colors, red, green, black, blue, etc… and compete in a series of events: tug of war, egg toss, basketball - sort of like the movie Meatballs, except all within the same camp.
During the summer we were divided into discreet units, older kids here, younger kids there, Hiawathans by the lake Tawasenthans by the ropes course, etc… But when it came time for color wars you had no idea who would be on your team. It was a release, and it was viciously fun.
So, for a while I’ve been thinking about how a color war might look online.
Corvida states Boredom Strikes On Twitter With Color!. Her summary statement
If this isn’t boredom, I don’t know what is, but at least it gives us something to do.
While I’m not sure how this is going to play out, and I’m probably too busy anyway, I decided to join and and see what the fun might be.
Twitter is a very interesting place.
Children are the spice of life.
While attending my youngest sister’s baby shower in Tulsa, Allison was able to capture this priceless video of my nephew trying to say “bridge”.
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It’s hard to imagine anyone approving this product, but then again, it happened. How many children are going to scream at the site of Sponge Bob in the future. To help complete the traumatization of America, they should also release a Krusty the Clown probe as well.
