Regardless of my internal struggles I thought I would point out one glaring issue I have with Google Drive: I have 2 Google accounts, a personal one and a work one, and this intentional line in the sand cannot be crossed.

Based on a statement from their support website it is currently

“not possible to use Google Drive for your Mac/PC with more than one account at the same time”

Okay that is fine with me actually, but at least let me configure two accounts in settings (each with their own separate shared directory) and then let me switch between the one that is actively syncing. The disconnecting and connecting with a different account (as they suggest) doesn’t really solve the issue of keeping these two accounts separate.

This was never really an issue with Dropbox for me because of how I structured my Dropbox directory, whereby my “Work” directory was shared with work people, and my “Home” directory was shared with family.

Besides that one glaring issue I have to say, I am very impressed with Google Drive. The integration with Google Docs is especially brilliant.

At this point Drive and Dropbox coexist happily together on my Mac, each being used for something slightly different.

A little over a year ago I decided it was time to replace my aging Linksys WRT54G wireless router in my home office with something new and fancy. I happened to be visiting a local computer shop one Saturday afternoon and came across the Cisco WRVS4400N Wireless-N Gigabit Security Router – VPN v2.0, which on the box sounded amazing. It was a little on the expensive side comparatively, but hey… it was Cisco, and I could setup VPN profiles on the device and easily connect remotely to my local network… so the extra money would be worth it.

Boy was I wrong. This device has never functioned even close to my expectations, despite running firmware version 2.0.2.1. My biggest complaint is that I am finding the wireless connectivity terribly unreliable with frequent disconnects. My second largest issue is that the supported QuickVPN client is a sad sad Windows hunker, and the only way I can get the VPN connection working reliably on my Mac laptop is use to VPNTracker, which is beautiful but significantly more money that I am willing to pay for something that should work using Mac OS X’s built in L2TP over IPSEC or Cisco IPSEC connection. AFAIK the only other option for Mac users is to use IPSecuritas, but unfortunately it wasn’t working with Mac OS 10.7 at the time.

In summary (as I sit here connected to my Airport Express) I am far from impressed with the WRVS4400N, and this reaffirms that I should only purchase equipment after reading reviews not the other way around (as you may be now).

Good luck, and move on to something else. If you find something else awesome and worth it, please feel free to post it.

I couldn’t find any quick way of doing this so I turned the linux find command and grep to give me a hand. Here is the command (which must be run as a privileged user):

find /var/www/vhosts -type d -name "wp-includes" -print -exec grep "wp_version" {}/version.php \;

Just replace /var/www/vhosts with the root directory of where all of your domains are stored. Hope this helps someone. Cheers.

Updated: I switched the above command to use “-type d” vs “-d” as per James’ comment below. Thanks James.

Ingredients:

1. Gold Tequila
2. Triple Sec
3. Thawed 355ml can of Minute Maid Limeade Concentrate
4. Ice
5. A lime

Directions:

1. Fill the bullets carafe with as much ice as you can pack in.
2. Add 110ml of the thawed limeade concentrate.
3. Add 85ml of Tequila.
4. Add 30ml of Triple Sec.
5. Now blend until smooth (30 – 45 seconds).
6. Squeeze in a lime wedge, drop in a straw, and enjoy.

Note: 1 can of the limeade concentrate makes 3 of these drinks.

We enjoyed this drink with some Tostitos and salsa. Yum, and good night.

What do you do? It doesn’t open automatically, and when you double click the filename it just asks you what application you want to use to open the file.

Well I will tell you what you do!

1. On the “Launch Application” dialog that opens when you double click the filename, click “Choose…” beside “Choose an Application”.
2. Navigate to Macintosh HD > System > Library > CoreServices.
   /System/Library/CoreServices/Java Web Start.app
3. Choose “Java Web Start” and click Open.

There you go. A post like this would have saved me 15 minutes anyways, hope it helps someone else.

I almost have to laugh when I think about how much I have changed over the last several years, and one of the biggest changes in my life has been my views about having children. I used to be under the impression that having a child would prevent me from doing the things I really wanted to do, and I was convinced I would somehow lose my identity and become a standard complacent father figure shell of my old self.

I now know that what my old self failed to realize is that this scenario is not an inevitability, it is a choice.

Karla and I feel like the two luckiest people in the world right now, and it is my pleasure to introduce Mr. Declan Simpson, an 8lbs 14oz bouncing baby boy. I have spent the past few weeks at home getting to know Declan, and watching him explore the big new world around him. This has been a truly indescribable experience that I will no doubt treasure for the rest of my life. Welcome Declan, enjoy life my son.

I downloaded the VM of their Bitnami Redmine Stack and it was so quick to get up and running, but here’s a tip to save others some frustration perhaps:

Despite the README.txt stating the default Redmine username and password is the username and password you entered during setup, it is actually (as of 0.9.4) Username: user | Password: bitnami

The websrv02 server will be unavailable for a short period of time while we shut the old system down and bring the new one online (approximately 20 minutes). This downtime is currently scheduled for:

Friday, February 19th, 2010 around 1:00PM EST

Important Website Warning: While the server downtime itself will be short, we will be starting the data transfer between the old server to the new server at approximately 10:45AM. It is important that you *do not make any changes to your website* between 10:30AM and 2:00PM EST on Friday or your changes may be lost once the new server is brought online.

Important E-Mail Warning: We will be shutting down incoming mail service on websrv02 at approximately 11:00AM EST to prevent any e-mail loss. If someone attempts to send you an e-mail on Friday between 11:00AM and 1:00PM EST the message will stay in their servers mail queue and will automatically resend once the mail service on the new server is brought online again.

We do apologize for any inconvenience this may cause; however we feel that this is an important upgrade to ensure the long term quality of service you have come to expect.

In order to continue to improve our products and deliver more sophisticated features and performance, we are harnessing some of the latest improvements in web browser technology. This includes faster JavaScript processing and new standards like HTML5. As a result, over the course of 2010, we will be phasing out support for Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 ?as well as other older browsers that are not supported by their own manufacturers.

We plan to begin phasing out support of these older browsers on the Google Docs suite and the Google Sites editor on March 1, 2010. After that point, certain functionality within these applications may have higher latency and may not work correctly in these older browsers. Later in 2010, we will start to phase out support for these browsers for Google Mail and Google Calendar. …

So now that Google is finally getting rid of IE6 support, the rest of the net will cave (if they haven’t stopped already) and if all goes well by the end of the year IE6 will be nothing but a story us geeks can tell over pint…

[joe] Oh, remember that time when I had to spend 3 days rewriting that great Javascript tool so that Neophyte Bob wouldn’t have to upgrade his nine year old web-browser?

[steve] 3 days! Meh, that’s nothing, try 5 days trying to get basic CSS2 to function properly.

[joe] Yeah, wasn’t there some sort of library we used called ie7.js to give it basic support?

[steve] I don’t think so, why would someone have to write a Javascript library for that?

[steve] Oh wait, yeah… that’s right, they did.