Surly Karate Monkey is no more...

Low crime doesn't mean no crime. Chaining your bike to a lamppost for 3 weeks is a sure way to lose it.


It does say something about locking up your bike with a U-lock though. It works. The frame is still there. Everything else is gone -- even the headset!! Ok, the chain ring, bb and crank are still attached.

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Dude's third beach ride

Dude and I cycled to the beach. It was his first beach ride on the Trek MT60 kids MTB. Unfortunately, someone was not in a mood to be photographed.

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OliveTree BibleReader: first impressions

The decision to take a look at Olivetree came after my iPhone decided to permanently mute it's speaker output despite several resets. In the end, I decided to update iOS 4.3.5 and restore as new phone. This fixed restored my ringer but delete all my apps since I wanted to restore as a new phone to avoid copying back corrupted application data. Since Laridian had not yet been reinstalled, I decided to take a look at Olivetree.


And it looked good. Text formatting looks great with beautifully proportioned margins and line spacing. Footnotes can be configured to display in a pop-out or split screen. Nice. Several book, chapter and verse navigation options are available.


Here's the alphabetical index listing for those of us who can't remember book sequences.


It's nice how the chapter and verse navigation has fine and coarse jumps. Select range on the right hand margin and zero in on the chapter or verse with the horizontal tab entries.

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Introducing Stuart Townend

Just downloaded this album on iTunes and am enjoying all the tracks.

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Paragon NTFS

Decided on Paragon NTFS over Tuxera. It's cheaper. Version 9.0 appears to work fine in the 2011 MacBook Air 13" running Lion. Here's the 32GB SD card that syncs my work stuff between the office computer and the MacBook Air.

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Milestone

The silver tortoise passed the 100k mark yesterday.

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Sticking out

Yep, the SD card definitely sticks out the right side of the MacBook Air -- by about 10mm. Leaving an SD card mounted also slows the shutdown from 4 seconds to... many many seconds.

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Lizard

Lizard sculpture carved from a tree stump. Singapore Botanic Gardens.

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FaceTime on the 2011 MacBook Air 13"

Like quite a number of people, I had problems getting FaceTime to work. First off, it complained about problems with the server. Then it sent a confirmation email to verify my AppleID email address. Problems with verification in FaceTime persisted even after I had followed the link in the confirmation email. I finally got past the verification stage after multiple attempts only to get stuck at the dialog asking for the preferred email to associate with FaceTime. The "Next" button remained greyed out.

It turns out to be a common issue. One workaround is to disable wifi, and connect to the internet using a wired Ethernet cable (I happened to have ordered the USB Ethernet adaptor) instead. Fire up FaceTime again and login. It works. I found this method while Googling for the problem. Apparently switching back to wifi will work fine after the initial successful connection.

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The Dell Replacement

It's here! Well its been here since Saturday, 3 Sep. Placed the order on Sunday, 28 Sep. Missed the first attempted delivery on 2 Sep. Well, here are my impressions so far:

• Nice display despite the smaller colour gamut. It's glossy but is significantly less reflective than honey's 2010 MPB.
• It boots in 20s, wakes from sleep in 1-3s. Goes for hours on one charge (ok this isn't saying much without actual numbers, give me a few days). Shuts down in 4s.
• Applications open after one or two bounces of the dock icon. Not quite instant, but definitely faster than my 7.5 year old Inspiron.
• It's really thin. Not iPad thin, but close enough.

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Rocky the penguin

Introducing Rocky the penguin. Baby Pie's favourite soft toy of the moment. One eye's missing...

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