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I saw this Friday on a friends blog.  He used to work for the Rocky Mountain News, but no longer, since Friday was their last edition, the paper had been in existence for 150 years.

Final Edition from Matthew Roberts on Vimeo.

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dead switch stack 

It was yet another busy day at work. With following the live blogs of the MacWorld keynote and all. After that though things went south. We had one elementary go offline. We’ve been having problems with it for a week now and today it just decided to give it up. So I spent the better part of 2 hours trying to determine what component of the 5 stacked switches was broke. I determined it was switch 2 but called it a day, since we needed to contact Extreme support to see what they wanted to do.

No backup software

I had a full plate waiting for me tonight to starting with something simple (yeah right). I headed over to one of our pastors homes to help him install a Western Digital MyBook hard drive and included software. I route the power cable through his desk and plug it into his MBP power it on and nothing. I hear it spinning but no lights on the drive. OK, I’ll try my MBP, still nothing. I finally just unplug the power for a minute then it starts working. Now lets move to the software. He already had it installed, so I fire it up. I get a warning that the trial period has expired please purchase a license or enter the code. Just for kicks I click the buy link, then find info on the page that says if this came with a hard drive just enter the code that came with it. No code. It is either lost or never existed. So I’ll try using the software that came with the one I have at home (if I can find the installer). It feels like a wasted trip.

wrong hard drive/tools

Now on to stop 2 for the night. I head to our lead pastors house to swap out his MBP 100gig hard drive for a 160gig. It’s all going pretty well until I need to take out 2 screws to get the top cover off. I have a T8 torx and these are T6. Hmmm, well they weren’t in very tight so my philips screw driver worked. So I continue on. Finally get out the hard drive and I say, “well before I take out the screws on this lets make sure the one you bought will work”. You can probably guess the answer. I told him to buy an ata drive, just like every other Apple laptop I’ve worked in the past 10 years. The MBP uses SATA. Hmmm, we call around, head to Best Buy, pick up a 250gig SATA, get back, unbox it, yes, right connectors it will work. Whew! Oh wait, whats this you need a T6 torx the get the screws out, and yes they are torqued down, no philips trickery here. Hmmm, again. OK I decide I’ll put it back together so he can work, and I’ll pick up a T6 at Sears and come back another time.  I won’t bore you with how it wouldn’t power on the first time after putting it back together

So I roll into home and it is time to veg.  That was one day I’ll never get back.

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Story of inspiration.  You can read about him here .  To sum his story up, he is a world class, classical guitarist, who in the prime of his career developed a nueroligical disorder Focal Dystonia which abruptly ended his career.  He couldn’t control the fingers on his left hand whenever he tried to play the guitar.  After much prayer, God led him to continue to pursue his life long love of playing the guitar.  In three short years he re-learned how to play the guitar left handed.  His music is truly amazing.  He was at our services at Point of Grace church for the 4th of July weekend.  I bought a CD and spoke to him for a minute.  He has a great gift and I wish him the best.  Check out a sample of his music at the iTunes store here or on his website here.

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Keynote Line:  Got in line around 6:15am, Jim joined us shortly after that. Met a gentleman from U. of Washington and a DB developer for the Iowa State College of Journalism, it is a small world.  Talking with three developers from MarketCircle, they produce, Billings and DayLite. Also met Sara who manages IT for the Guitar Center website, cool.
Well I thought the keynote was pretty underwhelming.  It was basically a version 2.0 of last years keynote.  Nothing really new was discussed except a few new features entering around the Finder.
At lunch we saw Mike Flender from Coe college.  I got to hang out with him last year one evening.
I’ve figured out one thing, after 2 sessions, I want an iPhone. ( I knew that previously but it is concrete now)  I also want to deploy Leopard server.Things to do/find out: •create web apps that conform to the size of iPhone’s screen•will F1 widget work on Tiger with Safari 3.0? Windows?•learn webkit programming - hybrid applicationThe reception was nice, free food and drink, as always Apple does things right.  
Later we went to dinner with Jim and Kristie at Lulu’s a french resturaunt.  It was very nice.  Got back to the hotel about 10:20, it was a very long day.

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Well I finally bit the bullet and created a real blog. It is created using Wordpress, which I’m pretty impressed with. I’ve got some friends, see the Blogroll, who have been blogging for a while so I thought I’d really give it a try.

I moved over my previous blog posts that I started at last year’s Apple World Wide Developer Conference. I had created them using Apple’s iWeb, a very nice tool but I like hands server stuff.

Well hope you enjoy and we’ll see how long I can stay focused on this. (topic for another post)

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