Silver Fox's Space

I ordered a Mac Mini!

Why?

I have  wanted one for sometime now.  I plan on doing more with my new camera so thought photoediting on the mac should make things easier     I also fancied a change from the different linux operating systems.  Its a cracking chance to learn something new.

The technical specifications are as follows:

• 2.66GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor
• 2GB (two 1GB SO-DIMMs) of 1066MHz DDR3 SDRAM (upgrading to 8GB from non apple site)
• 500GB Serial ATA hard disk drive

The dimensions are:

• Height:  1.4 inches (3.6 cm)
• Width:  7.7 inches (19.7 cm)
• Depth:  7.7 inches (19.7 cm)

With any luck it should arrive sometime next week

I have run from the truth
Since the days of my misspent youth
I was hungry for kindness
I was lost in life’s blindness

When you’re born without wings
All you dream of all you want
Is that feeling of flying
Of rising and climbing

Always thought I’d die young
In these hands I held a gun
But it’s too late for dying
Now there’s nothing worth hiding

I’ve lost love lived with shame
I was humbled by my fall from grace
On the steps of decision
It’s revenge or forgiveness

Strange how you can find a song which seems to speak to you.  Enjoy

I thought I could avoid mentioning it but I can’t,  IOS4 is out.

Seems the best thing is the new multitasking feature.  Oddly it is not the ability to have multiple apps open that delights me,  its the ability to close apps quickly.  I have noticed an improved performance on some of my applications if it is the only process running.

I will continue to play, noticed a few updates to the photo gallery (map using the geotag data) and a few tweaks to the iPod part of the phone.    I wonder what I shall find next…

Like so many others I have upgraded this blog to WordPress 3  (Thelonious Monk).   Main features appear to be:

• A new default theme called “Twenty Ten” along with new theme APIs
• The merge of WordPress and WordPress MU, creating the new multi-site functionality;
• Numerous under-the-hood tweaks

Its been a while since I last put anything on this blog.  This is completely my fault.   I have been quite busy with bits and pieces and have not had a tremendous amount of free time.

The pictures from my exploits in USA will be up soon, I am currently working on some panoramic photographs I took.  Its taking slightly longer than I imagined,  laugh out loud.

Tonight sees a beginners team IRC focus group meeting. Should be interesting and I am optimistic that  some resolutions to the current groups issues will be presented.  I think this week the entire beginners team is going to have a meeting.  I need to confirm.  Not sure if  I will be able to attend, but might be able to.  Play it by ear seems to be the smartest thing to do.  I have also volunteered by time to  help out giving sessions introducing newcomers to open source software.   Still need to draft up a work-flow that the talks will follow.  Hoping to have them done in the next 48 hours.

The weekend was averagely busy.  I went for a run and also played a game of badminton.     I also went to the cinema to see Prince of Persia.  You can certainly tell it was directed by Mike Newell.  Not a bad film though I think it did get a bit ‘silly’ in places.

Monday was a return to normal.   Only major thing I did was go to work.     After work I went to one of my beginners team focus groups meetings.  Turned out better than the last one.  I think the group has turned a corner and is more active than it once was

Tonight is quiz night. Last week we came 4th, so I hope we can do at least one better (fingers crossed).

Well,  I did it

I braved the ash cloud and got myself all the way over to the west coast of America.     I am quite excited and really enjoying myself.  Its nice to be away from everything back home.    I will sort a proper post out in the next few days,  but thought I should let people know I arrived safely.  So for the minute I am afraid you will have to be content with a picture.

I came across a nice little plugin for wordpress blogs that makes them more smart phone friendly

The plugin is called: WPtouch

What it does:

It detects the user agents of mobile devices and serves up its custom theme to those visitors only (It will not interfere with your regular theme) . Pretty nifty and saves you writing the code yourself (I had it in the pipeline too ). Its pretty customizable too, so you can have it try to match your existing colour scheme. Version 2 is around the corner and it promises to be even more flexible

Problem:

This plugin adds a few links in your header file and also provides a “Powered By” link. These links are in violation of wordpress plugin terms as no option to remove them is provided. I manually edited the header file of the plugin to remove the excess links. I also edited this file:

wp-content/plugins/wptouch/themes/default/footer.php

Pretty simple to edit,  but a little naughty of the devs.  Regardless of this I think its pretty nice feature to have on your blog.  If you want to have a look then visit my site on your mobile device.   The loading times should be a lot faster!

A few posts ago I mentioned that I had the Kubuntu boot and shutdown screen.  Well,  I fixed it with some information provided by forestpiskie

Seems plymouth had it settings wrong.  All I had to do was enter the following command in terminal:

sudo update-alternatives –config default.plymouth

Then I selected the Ubuntu option (in my case it was option 2).  Pretty simple fix to a really annoying problem

Thanks again forestpiskie.