Archive for January, 2007
Blog updated to WordPress 2.1
You are now viewing my site on WP 2.1. It was a relatively painless upgrade (following the instructions on WordPress.org)…but I use the term “relatively” very loosly. When I first tried to run the upgrade script, I got an error (that I had seen before):
Warning: main(/blahblahblah/wp-content/
advanced-cache.php) [function.main]: failed to open stream: No such file or [...]
New WordPress release (version 2.1) and other stuff
Once again, it’s been a while since I posted. I’ve been deep in “geek-dom” mainly related to Cell Phone. My wife’s old Blackberry (7100t) died so I got a Blackberry 8700c off of eBay and she is now up and running on that! It’s a great device actually. My biggest issues was a little trick [...]
Fixing a Honda Odyssey Automatic Sliding Door
I’m going a bit away from my usual tech talk on this one but still, it points to how truly information packed, the Internet is. We had a deep freeze last night, rain and then below freezing temperatures. Most of the Country is experiencing that now…but here in California, it is a bit rare to [...]
Apple Front Row, Griffin AirclickUSB and Griffin Proxi – Triple Play
Back in mid-November, 2006, I wrote up how to get Apple’s Front Row to work on older macs using a program and instructions outlined on AndrewEscobar.com. The only disadvantage to the “hack” was that it didn’t magically have a remote control materialize out of the air after installation. The way that I left it on [...]
My MacWorld 2007 – SF Predictions
So, 5 minutes before the Steve Jobs’ Keynote, here are my predictions:
- iPhone (PodPhone is what I’m calling it)
- Tablet Laptop
- 802.11n – new airport extreme following the new protocols
- iLife 2007
- Leopard announcement – coming Q1




