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Don’t trust iPhoto with your Flickr photos.
I found out yesterday that iPhoto, when integrated with Flickr, alters your sets based on iPhotos limitations and doesn’t let the user know.
I’ve been using Flickr for years and have been very happy with it. Once Lily was born the number of photos I uploaded increased dramatically. I’ve now got nearly 900 Lily photos, all in one album.
A while back I got iPhoto ’11 (v9) and was very excited for the Flickr integration. I hooked it up and realized that iPhoto allows a max of 500 photos for a Flickr set. This meant I couldn’t use iPhoto to continue adding photos to my Lily set. I was disappointed, but I left the integration anyways as the backup was nice.
Alligators, giraffes, food and a good vacation.
Our vacation to Bonita Springs, Florida was a lot of fun. We got to hold an alligator, ride on air boats through the Everglades, feed a giraffe and we had more than enough food and drinks.
While there was a threat of snow in Minnesota, we were relaxing by the pool in the upper 80s. Instead of cereal for breakfast, we had a breakfast buffet. Every dinner had multiple courses and the bar was always open. We were pretty much spoiled from the time we arrived.
It was nice to get away, just me and the wife, and it’s amazing that my wife won this trip for being a stellar employee!
Life on just the iPad doesn’t work for me.
Well I made it though a week without my iMac. How did I do? Well…. not so good.
I was doing fine for a few days. Granted it helped that Lily was sick and I had to sleep with her a few nights and that took away from my computer time.
However I found it difficult to live just on the iPad.
Don’t get me wrong, I love the iPad and think it’s a great machine. But it lacks advanced controls that you get on your computer and multitasking is pretty much non-existent.
Cute animals at the petting zoo.
What better than wild animals in their natural environment? Cute animals in the comfort of the indoors
Music I hate to admit that I saved.
Remember when we were younger and the music was awesome. Now we look back and don’t admit to liking it while secretly loving it because it brings back good memories?
Well I’ve been going through my old CDs and deciding which ones to get rid of. If I’m on the fence about any, I just import them into iTunes so I know I have them if I ever need a flashback moment.
Here is some of the stuff I hate to admit but I saved.
One Week by Barenaked Ladies
Livin’ La Vida Loca by Ricky Martin
Family Time
There’s nothing like sitting down for dinner and spending a little time with the family.
And that’s why I don’t trust the weather man.
Last week I overheard a co-worker say that we were going to get a big storm in a week with a foot or more of snow. Then my wife heard it too. Seems it was all over the news.
WCCO was reporting 12-15 inches possible, KSTP said 6+ and most other stations were reporting a major snow storm.
Now we are a day away from the storm and what are they predicting? 2-4 inches say most stations with a few thinking as much as 5 or as little as 1.
This is why I don’t trust the weatherman.
Testing out WordPress custom post formats.
I’ve been waiting for WordPress 3.1 to come out for months now. I was so excited for post formats as I thought that’d make my WordPress blog cool like my Tumblr blog. Turns out, maybe not.
The first thing I forgot was that I’d have to update my theme to make them work. Not only adding the custom function, but also writing the code to figure out if a post was a custom format or not. Then styling those differently as that is the whole point behind custom post formats.
We now own a snow blower.
It took many years and many feet of snow, but I’ve finally given in and we got our first snow blower.
I picked it up at Lowe’s earlier today and it barely fit into my car. But it rode in the passenger’s seat quite nicely.
It turns out snow blowers are harder to find in February than you’d think. They’ve all been replaced by grills! I first stopped at Home Depot and they only had two left; and they were way to big.
This little guy should work well at clearing our drive way and, more importantly, the end where the snowplow plows us in.
FedEx rocks at customer service while USPS fails.
I ordered a few things from Amazon the other day and they decided to ship them to me in three different packages so that I could get them sooner; which was really nice since I didn’t have to pay more.
On Feb 9th I got notice that package 1 shipped. Feb 12th package 2 shipped. Feb 13th package 3 shipped.
Package 2 arrived on Feb 14th and package 3 arrived on Feb 15th. But where is package 1?
According to my tracking number, the status is ‘Shipment Accepted’ with an expected delivery date of February 15, 2011. It said that on the 15th, 16th, 17th and 18th.
