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Weekend Activities

October 10, 2008 by Aaron

Tonight I’m heading down to Minneapolis to see my brother’s band play.  Then tomorrow morning, I’ll be taking part in the Neuwerks Fall Escape.  It’s an annual tradition where a bunch of European car nuts get together and take a nice lovely drive through the colorful countryside of Southern MN and Western WI.

I look forward to it, as I haven’t been out and about for a while. :)   I just have to remember to bring my camera.

mypictr – SWEET SERVICE!

October 9, 2008 by Aaron

Holy crap, I just came across this site: http://mypictr.com/ It’s great!

It lets you upload a photo, and crop it down to size for use as an avatar on any number of major sites, or you can define your own custom size.

Ye Flipping Gods! Too late to the party :(

October 9, 2008 by Aaron

For the past, oh, two years, I’ve had this grandiose plan for a really neat website service.  It would be an aggregator of web services, allowing you to link to all of your various accounts around the web.  I never really had much background in programming, so I never started to endeavor on the project.   Other things drew my attention, and it kept being pushed back as a “someday” idea.

Well today I just found a service: MyBlogLog.  Apparently someone else thought that concept would be a good idea too, only they were able to execute on the concept.  And it looks like a pretty neat service!  I would have done some things differently, but for the most part, it has all of the features I wanted.
I guess if you can’t do it yourself, wait long enough, and it’s bound to be done by someone else.

my Macbook gets Leopard

October 9, 2008 by Aaron

I had been wanting to upgrade my 1st gen black macbook to Leopard since it came out.  Last January I switched from a Dell desktop to a 24″ iMac running Leopard for work, and I just LOVE Leopard!  But I hadn’t taken the opportunity to upgrade my Macbook from Tiger to Leopard.

Finally I took the plunge, but not without some bumps & bruises along the way.  When I tried upgrading the first time, the installer said I needed 6.4gb of free space, so I freed up 7gb and ran the installer.  When booting the first time, I got the dreaded light blue screen of nothingness.  Rebooting into the installer then showed 11.2gb of space needed to upgrade.

That’s just great! now I’m left with a laptop that wont boot, and no way to install anything or free up free space!  I decided to ditch my 15gb bootcamp partition that I had made over a year ago, but never booted into.  Bye bye native windows on my mac! I guess I’ll just keep using Parallels!

Once Leopard installed and booted from my 15gb partition, I was able to back up my entire hard drive (which I know I should have done in the first place before I did ANYTHING).   Then I proceeded to wipe my entire drive, and install fresh from scratch.

Now Leopard is up and running, and I’ve restored my backed up data, and I’m a happy camper.  I must say, that I’m not as impressed with Leopards performance on my macbook as I am on my iMac.  But then again, I’m still just on 1gb of RAM with my macbook.  Time to go ram shopping to see if I can hold out for another year before replacing it with a Macbook Pro.

Time for an upgrade

October 9, 2008 by Aaron

Well, I thought it’s about time to upgrade from wordpress 2.0.5 to 2.6.2.  Hopefully this new version of wordpress is somewhat impressive, as I’ve been starting to lean towards MovableType as my new blogging engine of choice.

But we’ll see… :)

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