I mentioned yesterday that I was reluctantly upgrading my Mac to OS X Lion. I thought I’d lay out my reasons, and then get into some of my early reactions.
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Creating a Bootable Snow Leopard External Hard Drive
I am reluctantly getting ready to upgrade my laptop to OS X 10.7 Lion. (The “reluctantly” part is a subject for another post). Because I have some PowerPC apps, including a couple of favorite games that I still use, I decided to pick up an external hard drive, and install Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard on it. Unfortunately, it wasn’t as easy as I’d hoped.
Thoughts on Titanic
I went to see Titanic 3D Saturday night. I’ve long had a fascination with the ship and sinking, and saw the movie a couple of times when it first came out. Between the centanary of the sinking, and the re-release of the the movie, I’ve been thinking about Titanic a bit lately.
Headline Foolishness
I saw this headline earlier today, and found it irritatingly foolish:
Court Holds Secret Vote on Health Care
It makes it sound like the justices were in some sort of secret conspiracy to do whatever they’re going to do to the health care law. The article went out over the news syndicates, and it appeared on a number of sites, usually with the same headline.
In fact, though, it was just their normal Friday conference where they discuss, in private, the cases they’ve heard during oral arguments over the week, and once you read the article, it made that clear, and also had a fairly accurate description of the decision process. More accurate headlines would have used “tentative” or “private” to describe the conference today, since the eventual vote will become public, but of course, that doesn’t sound as sinister.
ColdFusion Struct Assignment Catch
I solved a mystery at work today, and in the process, learned a bit about how ColdFusion struct literals work.
Springing Forward
So, we’re back in Daylight Savings Time. As I type this, I’m at the Boston Sea Rovers show, waiting for the first seminar of the day to begin. It seems to me that everybody here is feeling the time shift. It’s 10 minutes to the start of the talk, and the audience is still sparse and fairly subdued. At least it makes it easier for the folks from Bonaire, who are used to this time.
Of the talks yesterday, my favorite was Joe Romeiro’s. It was billed as a talk on the sharks of New England, but basically, he was just rummaging through folders of pictures in the Finder and showing off a potpourri of pictures and videos from all over. He was the guy who shot the amazing shark video on You Tube, and is also a very engaging speaker.
I’m kinda sad about the end of winter. Although I don’t do it well, I enjoy cross country skiing, and there wasn’t much of it this year. The Weston Ski Track was continually battling the warm weather, and ended up having to make more snow later than they normally do. They only had the full course open one weekend, the weekend we got back from Bonaire. Windblown XC in New Hampshire was only open for last weekend. They did have great snow last weekend, but it’s gone now.
Panoramic View from Windblown XC — taken with Pano on the iPhone 4S
I guess it’s time put the bike back in the car and start hitting the bike path after work.
Bonaire Pictures: Friday
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Friday brought the last day of diving. Since you need 24 hours to rid your body of excess nitrogen before flying, we had to be out of the water by 3 PM. We did two boat dives at Rappel, and … Continue reading
Bonaire Pictures: Thursday
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Thursday was a pair of boat dives, Pink Beach, and Paul’s steak dinner. We were about a hundred yards from the site called Rappel when a boat from another resort swooped in and beat us to the mooring, but almost … Continue reading
Bonaire Pictures: Wednesday
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Wednesday was a four dive day: In the morning, we all dove the wreck of the Hilma Hooker, and then the Salt Pier, in the afternoon, Henri and I did two dives on the house reef.
Bonaire Pictures: Tuesday
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Tuesday morning I did Weber’s Joy with the Hinzes and Alec and Nick, Tuesday afternoon, the Nolans, Henri Menco and I did Dee Scarr’s Touch the Sea program, and in the evening, I did a dusk dive with Jack and … Continue reading