December 28th, 2008
So there I am, just having arrived at my parents’ house, away from my backup drives for a week or so when up pops a dialog:
20 Days?! How the hell did that happen? This bug may have had something do with it. Or perhaps I just disconnected my USB backup drive and forgot to plug it back in. But why didn’t Time Machine warn me before now? 24 or even 48 hours I can believe, but it really should warn you that you aren’t backed up before two weeks go by.
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December 27th, 2008
Apparently the airport wireless does not reach into the plane though. Shouldn’t have bothered to board early.
American Airlines is now selling cheap (relatively) upgrades to first class at checkin at the airport. I wonder if I can get one online in advance? On a short hop–e.g. New Orleans to Dallas–it can actually be cheaper to by the upgrade ($35) than to check two bags ($50).
Is there a tethering application for the Android yet for those airports that don’t have free wireless? That would also come in handy when my parents’ wireless network flaked out over the holidays. If there isn’t, maybe I should write one.
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December 27th, 2008
Just noticed that Louis Armstrong (a.k.a. Moisant) has free wireless now. Hardly seems worth a blog post. Maybe I should be using Twitter.
Better yet, I should figure out a way to feed Twitter into this site.
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December 25th, 2008
My MacBook seems to have caught the dread “Connection timeout” bug for wireless networks. It’s got the usual symptoms: everything was working fine and then suddenly it couldn’t connect to my parents’ wireless network, although it could connect to other networks and other computers could connect to this network. This bug has been around for a while, since at least 10.4, and Apple keeps saying they’ve fixed it in each new point release, but it keeps showing up.
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December 25th, 2008
I suspect someone’s going to give me an Amazon gift certificate for Christmas, and someone already gave me an Android. What’s the best book for learning to develop or Android? There aren’t a lot of choices yet:
Which ones are worth the paper they’re printed on and which ones are headed for the recycling bin as soon as the next SDK version hits the ether?
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December 22nd, 2008
I flew American Airlines for the first time in a few years yesterday. It was cramped, uncomfortable, and crowded. I could tell they’ve stuffed in extra rows of seats since the last time I flew them on anything but a shuttle. The snacks were bad, small, and expensive ($4 Cheese plate: One piece of cheese, four crackers). Beth liked the movie (Horton Hears a Who) but they charged $2 for headsets.
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