Jan 31, 20162 min readLittle League Evaluations AppLittle League evaluations can generate some of the most paperwork of the season. If you live in the Northwest, there is also the very real danger of scheduling an evaluations date a couple months in advance and it turns…
Dec 18, 20123 min readSeattle's Mercer Mess - and How to Fix ItThose that live in Seattle know that Mercer street has sucked for 40 years. Over the past couple years, there has been an extensive effort to make Mercer better - and the street and surroundings have improved markedly…
Nov 9, 20121 min readMarking Time - A Novel by April WhiteMy dear friend April White has just released her self-published young adult novel Marking Time, the first book in her Immortal Descendants series. Marking Time is available for Kindle for just $2.99. If you like epic…
Jun 13, 20121 min readAirport Utility 6.1 Supports IPv6 ConfigurationThe recent 6.1 update to Airport Utility now lets you edit the IPv6 configuration of your various Apple Airport devices. The new 1.1 version for IOS also supports editing IPv6. In the Tunnel section there is a new field…
May 31, 20121 min readMy Son = Published AuthorIt really is a brave new world in self-publishing. My son created a fantastic (my determination, natch) paper book, and within a few hours I was able to use iBooks Author to create a version of the book for iBooks. It…
Apr 16, 20121 min readYes, screen guardz hd really do help the iPad in the sunWe only got one of the screen guardz for the trip to Mexico and now I wish we got two! They really do help. With my polarized sunglasses I can't see anything on the iPad without the plastic cover, but I can comfortably…
Feb 25, 20121 min readWordpress Dev Branch Bit MeSorry for the lack of posts for half the day - I was running the Wordpress dev branch and the update this morning apparently couldn't find the posts anymore. I have reverted to something more stable.
Jan 12, 20121 min readiTunes Error -50 preventing syncJust had this error today with an iPhone 4 and the apple support document is not very useful. From Googling, it seemed that many people used to blame this on corrupt photos in iPhoto - but tracking those down can be…
Dec 14, 20111 min readHP Photosmart Premium - Worst F***ing Printer EverNot much else to say. Worst purchase I have made in a long time. Constantly crashes. Takes forever to print. Makes all kind of noise before and after printing. Constant scanning issues. Total POS and my last HP printer…
Oct 18, 20111 min readS/Mime and iOS5 and Google Apps/Exchange - no workyI've been trying to get my s/mime email signing certificate to work under ios5 and i think i've found a bug. If you are trying to send a signed email from your iOS5 device and instead your recipients are receiving an…
Oct 6, 20111 min readSo long SteveA sad day - but also a day to celebrate the life of a true technology icon. And I love this story about life in his neighborhood. Thanks Steve, and go Apple!
Aug 27, 20114 min readFix Time Machine Sparsebundle NAS Based Backup ErrorsThis is a modification of an original post for use when you have a corrupt sparsebundle backup on a NAS (as opposed to an external drive attached to a router) and it needs to be repaired. The NAS is likely a hardware…
Aug 27, 20113 min readiTunes Home Theater - How to integrate with iPad, iPhone, other iOS devices, AV Receiver and TVI've been asked a few times to explain how iTunes runs everything in the house. So here it is. We have an always-on computer (a mac, but could be an old PC) - which is always running iTunes and this is where we keep all…
Aug 3, 20111 min readFix for FreeNAS 8 and Netatalk and 10.7 Lion Time Machine and AFPI've posted Netatalk 2.2 binaries over in the FreeNAS 8 forum for both x86 and x64 versions that will enable AFP and Time Machine connections from both OS X 10.6.x and 10.7. Sparsebundle backups made under 10.6 can now…
Feb 27, 20112 min readAn IPv6 search result icon and specific browser error message for IPv6?As I have been playing more with IPv6 I have noticed even Google is not returning search results for IPv6 only sites. My own test site - ipv6.cybernode.com has been indexed by Googlebot - but the pages do not show up in…
Dec 24, 20101 min readIPv6 EnabledHurricane Electric, my co-location provider was kind enough to allocate 18 quintillion IPv6 addresses to me (a /64 block) and I have started to put them to use. My Linux kernel has been IPv6 ready for awhile, so I added…
Dec 23, 20101 min readEastside pubs with wi-fi - Lake WashingtonThis will be an open post as I find local pubs (in a likely increasing radius) with wi-fi. Three Lions - Redmond - Has wi-fi, and an impressive array of soccer games year round. Two dart boards also help. Black Raven…
Jul 17, 20104 min readFix Time Machine Sparsebundle Network Backup Errors[UPDATE - The post below is mostly for people using a USB hard drive attached to an Airport Extreme - if your sparsebundle is on a network drive or NAS, please see my modified post here.] I use an external hard drive…
Dec 31, 20091 min readGift Card Laundering, or Buying Other Gift Cards with a Visa Gift CardI recently received a Visa Gift Card, which is a very nice thing to get, but unfortunately has a couple issues when used online. Namely, there is no 'Billing Address' associated with the card, so trying to use the Visa…
