Wireless Surprise

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I’m sitting in a crappy restaurant here in Winona, being totally surprised to find a 5 bar wireless connection for my laptop. Of course, the router has the default linksys name and, you guessed it, admin password. So I’m not terribly excited to be on this network, but also not terribly concerned that anyone else knows about it. Anyway…

Work on MoodBlast 2.0 is coming along. It’s a huge, major, totally impressive upgrade. I’m impressing myself, I mean. Today I figured out how to hack an NSSearchField to have a pill icon instead of a magnifying glass, square corners, and still maintain a history of moods. Next step is to offer autocompletions of moods that start with @keywords, and if you hit tab after selecting an autocomplete, it should deselect Twitter, Jaiku and Facebook. I mean, why would you want to repeat posts to those, right? So it would be cool if you could just pick a previous mood and have it kind of autoselect service states.

My hard drive in my Macbook Pro is still dying. I have a new one in my backpack but discovered quickly that MBPros don’t have user-serviceable hard drives. So I bought a RAID backup drive with a Firewire 800 connection and am keeping a constant dupe of my drive going until I have the time to perform delicate surgery. Fortunately, I can boot straight off of the RAID drive. And at this point it actually runs about twice as fast off of the external. I should just do that ;).

I’m babbling because I just found out I have to completely redesign and re-typeset a 24 page catalog the day before it goes to press. I’d just assume as soon think about anything but that. But it’s time to face the music, right after we have dessert at this restaurant with the wireless surprise.

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  1. Jeff Cornejo 08.31.07 / 7am

    You MBP hard drive is user-serviceable!! I just recently replaced the one in mine without much fanfare. Apple made the invasion into the case a quite a bit easiser than on the PowerBooks. This guide was what I followed: http://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Mac/MacBook-Pro/Hard-Drive/85/5/Page-1/Packaging

  2. brett 08.31.07 / 9am

    Yep, that’s the guide I used last night. My 17” was a little different than the guide, but I made it work. However, that’s not what I consider “user serviceable”, not in the sense that the MacBooks are. They made it just about as difficult as possible…

  3. elliottcable 09.01.07 / 12am

    Two things - I think you meant “I’d just as soon think about anything but that”, not “I’d just assume think about anything but that” d-:

    Second, the commenting form is a bit hard to use - might want to add some padding to those elements? Maybe a 115% font-size too, or something? d-:

    edit1: the hover-hilighting to edit comments is horrendous as well, can’t see anything through it. but that could just be opinion speaking again [-:

  4. brett 09.01.07 / 7am

    I’ll take that as constructive criticism, but certainly not because you linked to a well designed site with a correctly spelled title element. d-:

    edit: I made some changes, and despite any sarcasm above, I do appreciate the suggestions. Thanks.

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