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I’ve been quite obsessed with Lego in the recent past. Frankly, I’ve been obsessed with Lego for more than 20 years, but the recent past has seen a resurgence in that obsession.
Not that long ago, I shot a time-lapse of a Lego 8294 Excavator build. It was a fun learning experience (the shoot), but [...]

For the longest time, I’ve used phpMyAdmin to manage my MySQL databases when a UI was required. While it definitely gets the job done, I was never a fan of the web interface and I figured it was the best option available.
A few weeks ago while in LA, I was shown Sequel Pro. It’s [...]

I just discovered today that the ‘watch’ command isn’t natively available on OS X. You can apparently get it through Macports. Since I don’t have Macports installed, this seemed like a very heavy solution for a rather small problem.
Looking for another solution, I opted for a basic while loop — which is a shell command. [...]

Before my transition to my Mac, I used ID3 Renamer on Windows. It’s a great application and does everything that I need it to do – which is full renaming of mp3 files along with full id3 tag handling. One-stop shopping at its best. And it’s free.
Unfortunately, there isn’t an OS X version and running [...]

My watch has been running fast for a few days. There’s definitely something wrong with it. I reset it as of 9am this morning. I went to a watch shop after work (around 5) and it was already an hour ahead. Definitely not good. I’ll hear in about a week what the damage is and [...]

Over the past few days, I’ve done a bunch of work to redesign the site. I obviously rethemed WordPress, but also made a number of modifications to that theme and changed how the Google Ads are distributed and displayed.
I had to make a few changes to various plugins to get them working properly, but I [...]

My site was offline for a few hours. The hosting company had some problems that took them a while to fix. Not sure of the details. I just know that when I woke up I didn’t have access to email or any of my domains. Not fun. Only about two months ago there was an [...]

I just got through updating WP and all of my plugins to the latest versions. It takes some time because I’ve made modifications to about half of the plugins and it’s a PITA to upgrade my test system, test it, make sure I’ve made all necessary changes and then upgrade the production box and make [...]

I’m flying out to LA in a couple of hours and returning Sunday.
That’s pretty much it.
I’m just glad that I’m escaping the dropping temps and rain for a few days.

Went diving today. Such a great activity to add to a summer long weekend.
The weather was awesome, the water was “warm” and we got to see a lot of critters. Tons of skates and flounder all over the place, along with the usual assortment of lobster and crabs. More than a few lobster were down [...]