My daughter just told me that sometimes in her Animal Crossing game on the DS, the stores are only open at certain times. But if she’s not playing at the right time, she goes and changes the time, so the stores are open and she gets stuff she needs, and then she changes back to the real time, so the stores are closed again. Her first hack! I’m so proud. 🙂
Tomorrow, she turns 8. And she’s getting her first Mac.
Next week I go back to work, and I’ve gotten rid of a ton of stuff that I could just throw away, and made it through most of my backlog of “non-critical” snail mail. Things aren’t perfectly the way I want them yet, but getting closer. Now I’m trying to work out a plan for […]
I’ve spent at least an hour (usually more) each day this week going through a chapter in the PickAxe 2nd Ed. I’m up to the RegEx section in Chapter 5 right now. I’ve been through a bunch of other tutorials, and this time, it really feels like it’s sinking in and I’m getting more of it. It helps that I have a project in mind this time as well. I think I’m going to go through the PickAxe for another week or so, then I’ve got an automation project using RubyOSA that I need to build to reduce my workload. Yay!
It’s been 4 weeks since the start of my exercising “regularly,” and even through I pretty much missed week three because of a business trip, I’ve gotten back on track and feel pretty good about things. Now if I could only figure out how to write code while I exercise…
I just upgraded SitM to WordPress 2.2, which— aside from the neato AJAX-y sidebar widgets thingamabob, I’m not quite sure what else is new. I suppose I could read the release notes, but that feels like cheating.
Submitted as a bug to Apple:
When a podcast is not listened to for either five new episodes or five days, iTunes will take it upon itself to stop downloading the podcast, even though the user has not directed it to behave in such a manner. Neither is there any user-accessible setting to turn off or adjust this behaviour when it is unwanted by the user. This is an improper behavior for iTunes to take, considering users may wish listen to their podcasts in batches at a frequency longer than Apple’s fixed number of days and/or episodes.
Thankfully, an AppleScript has been created by Doug to work around this by batch-updating all your podcasts. Also useful is the script that allows you to batch download missing episodes for podcasts that may have been skipped.
So, I’m reading over my cell phone bill— which I never really do since it’s on auto-pay, and I pretty much just ignore it— and I notice that I’m being charged for insurance on my wife’s RAZR, but not on my Treo. Since I requested coverage for both of them when we upgraded last year, […]