All the Pages Are My Days - the first 12 years
the (archived) online world of Mike Rodriquez 2002-2012
I got another tip published at macosxhints! The site is an excellent resource for Mac owners, providing a wide variety of useful tips covering all manner of Mac topics. The tips are almost all submitted by readers of the site (and reviewed by the site owner before publishing), meaning there’s a high degree of hands-on … Read more
Another in a series of take-offs of the periodic table, this one purports to represent the nominal shelf life of a variety of condiments. The numbers seem reasonable based on my experience, but I’m in no way vouching that this chart is accurate; use your own judgement. Still, it’s an interesting approach to representing some … Read more
AMK4 responded to the previous entry with some thoughts on how I might work around the fact that the weathernws plugin doesn’t work well with ecto and NetNewsWire (the blog isn’t completely and cleanly rebuilt after posting when the plugin is installed). I had been using an include template to provide the weather content. AMK4 … Read more
Well, I figured out why NetNewsWire and ecto both had difficulties when posting to this blog. Turns out that when one of my plugins, the one powering the hourly weather updates, was installed, rebuilding after a post from either of these programs would fail to complete. Pings weren’t done, and in NNW’s case, no category … Read more
I remembered that ecto displayed the entire response from my server (compared to NNW’s “error 500”) and so decided to post using ecto. Hopefully I can figure out something from the error message, plus the author of ecto will review it in search of the cause of the failures I’m seeing. One nice thing was … Read more
Seems my problems with ecto are related to a problem I’m having rebuilding my site. The article is posted, but not visible till I rebuild by hand. I had previously posted using NetNewsWire so I went back to try that again. Hmm, same results as w/ecto. Article is posted, but blog is not rebuilt. UPDATE: … Read more
Continuing my adventures with yeast I tried a slightly more complicated recipe yesterday. This was my first time using a sponge as part of the process and also the first time I applied a sprinkling of seeds (sesame) to my creation. I think the egg wash really helped them to stick. Also, it was the … Read more
I’ve been giving the new weblog tool, ecto, a spin and here are some notes and comments regarding this potentially useful blog tool. The tip (scroll down to Q6) about configuring your MT blog to allow “draft” postings does work. After publishing, the site isn’t rebuilt. Publishing also causes a “No valid XML data in … Read more
Item 1: The recently received email touting the new RealOne player neglects to mention that there is no update for the Mac client. Item 2: If you lose access to
King Arthur Flour has a great recipe for Cinnamon Swirl Bread. The resulting loaf was very well received and has probably become a regular in the rotation. I posted the link to the recipe rather than posting the recipe itself as I usually do because this recipe is somewhat long (also, I’ve got the cookbook … Read more