Haven’t been active on here in *ages* – which is a pity. I think Twitter took over and ended up becoming something of a distraction for a while, but that’s started to subside recently.

Anyway, the reason for this quick post is to report that I’ve run through a number of OS X upgrades across different machines recently, and all seem to have gone OK. This Apache instance is still up an running, so that’s proof enough that the switchover went well given that there’s a bunch of custom stuff in this which you might expect would get toasted on an upgrade.

The only minor points for me seem to have been a few plugins from various Apps to Mail and Safari – otherwise all seems well so far.

Actually, the main problem I encountered was a less than happy optical drive on one of the machines. There’s a bunch of questions on the Apple Support forums about optical drives refusing to accept CDs or DVDs and there are a set of responses suggesting media type and wandering off to your local repair centre. In this case all it took to get the drive accepting disks again was a blast of air through the drive. I think the drive gets used so little these days that the dust build up must have covered the lens and so the drive just assumes all media are trashed.

Posted: September 5th, 2009 under Aside.
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Saw this over on Failblog and it made me think about dealing with shark-infested waters in the workplace.  Sometimes the best route to avoid painful conflict is just to get the Hell out of the water.

Posted: December 9th, 2008 under Aside, WIN.
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It’s probably about time that I dusted off the blog and stopped tweeting so much ill-considered rubbish to concentrated more on gathering some of the current intellectualised threads together.  I don’t have many weeks left until I’m out on leave from the office for a while, and I need to get stuff done in a practical and concise manner.  Whether that’s achievable in the office is a whole different matter, but time will tell.

So anyway, consider this a reboot (which it literally was, given that the kids had managed to turn the box off while I was away in Munich – bless them).

Posted: October 26th, 2008 under Aside.
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I’ve had it with The Strawberry Project.  Things have moved on since this blog started and I need to make some changes around here to liven things up a bit.  I’m off to mull over a few ideas and will be back in a few days with the answers.

Posted: March 26th, 2008 under Aside.
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OK, I’ve been a little slack on the posting front during the final quarter of 2007.  I think I was briefly distracted by the mass hypnosis generated by Facebook during the back end of summer, but events since then have left me feeling somewhat ambivalent towards the whole FB scene.

As my FB usage has declined, the converse has been true of Twitter.  I’ve found that Twitter has become my most-used asynchronous  messaging platform, replacing direct SMS and email in one go.   The only issue on the horizon seems to be the amount of downtime that the service has had in 2007, which has been increasing.

Anyway, I have a lot of retrospective writing/posting and some serious thought capturing to do right now, so I’d better crack on.

Happy New Year to all.

Posted: January 1st, 2008 under Aside.
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