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I played two rounds of golf the past few days in Columbus, OH while Carey shopped for scrapbooking supplies. After all, we don't have any Hobby Lobby stores near Erie, PA.

My scores, as usual, are here and here.

Tomorrow, I get to powerwash the deck!

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I'm holding off for a few days on installing AppleJack 1.5, but it's finally out and it finally supports Leopard.

I'll take one, please. The 120 FPS mode will be great for shooting golf swings. Much better than my 320 x 240, 60 FPS Canon SD550 (which, for a still camera, has done a great job).

Wonder what the cost will be.

Thanks, John.

BBEdit is one of my "buy it immediately so long as the upgrade price doesn't shock me" type of products. It's only after I pay that I get around to looking at the list of features.

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If you watch any sports shows, you'll hear about this: link 1, link 2, link 3.

I support it.

A few days ago I noticed that Rivet wasn't sharing all of the images in my Aperture library, or even displaying all of the albums with images. I spent a few hours not thinking about the problem, then poked and peeked and looked inside my Aperture Library bundle at the ApertureData.xml file. It was 192 KB.

Then something came up. I put this thought on the back burner for a few days. I rebuilt my Aperture library (command+option at startup). No dice - still 192 KB and still only showing about 50 of the 8600+ images. I checked out the file and only a few images were listed. Mildly tumped and pressed with other things, I put finding a solution off for a few days.

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Aside from the occasional instances of horrible grammar, Tiger Woods PGA Tour '09 is a joy to play. Very well crafted game.

Update: I spotted another typo, but it was on a loading screen (at Cog Hill) and I couldn't snap a pic in time. iPhone "Camera.app" takes too long to launch, as do I from the couch. 🙂 It was a word like "beautiful" that had a spare "y" at the end.

I could have sworn old-school Gatorade didn't have a ton of sugar in it, and I was surprised to find that modern Gatorade - including Tiger Woods' "Tiger" version - is basically water, sugar, dye, and a little flavoring. And worse yet, it's not sugar, but HFCS ((High Fructose Corn Syrup)).

Did it change at some point? Or has Gatorade always been sugar-water? Is it still "okay" for you, relatively speaking? And if it's just sugar water, why wouldn't Kool-Aid from the packets (which would at least have actual sugar and not HFCS) be just as good?

Samba de Amigo is coming to the Wii, and I'm excited. I owned two full sets of the maracas when the game existed for the Dreamcast ((I had an excuse: I was editor in chief of SegaWeb at the time. But truth be told, I'd have probably owned them anyway.)), and Samba de Amigo is one of about four or five games I wish I still had. The game could be instantly played by anyone, was a big hit among the slightly intoxicated people at various parties ((Plus, it distracted them from fucking with my piranhas, Bill and Ted.)), and had enough different music to keep you playing.

So, so much fun.

See the two segmented controls in the screenshot of the Numbers inspector? Right there in the "Page Layout" section? SEe 'em?

Thing is, they're not segmented controls. At least, they don't act like 'em. They look like 'em, but they don't quack like them, so they're not ducks.

Instead of clicking on the left or right side, it doesn't matter which side you click on - they'll toggle.

Great job, Apple. 😛

Fortunately, this isn't the biggest problem in Numbers. I spent ten minutes today trying to figure out the whole border system (I've got it now!), and a good 15 minutes trying to figure out how to force Numbers how NOT to use the names of columns in formulas ((=A2+B2 looks so much better than =Blue Team Whispering Woods + Red Team Thunder Hill or whatever I was getting. Ugh.)). Never did get an answer to that one, and every time I'd type the cell coordinates the names would replace the much simpler letter/number pair. 🙁

Oh, and once I merged some cells, I was seemingly unable to split them back into the cells they came from. Numbers kept dividing them in half, despite the fact that I'd originally merged three cells into one.

I won't say what it is, but Brad and I have been working on an iPhone application at the target price of $1.99. It's not Scorecard for the iPhone (that's coming out later), and it's not really much of anything, but we're "testing the waters" of sorts with this app, and for under two bucks, we think it can be fun.

So, we're considering adopting a greyhound. It seems it's the only way to get one, after all. Though part of me loved being "in control" from the get-go (or, well, about nine weeks old anyway) with my former canine pal, part of me is looking forward to not having to get up three times per night to take a very small dog outside to pee and all that. If you consider them a wash, the only downside, then, is not being able to get cute puppy pictures.

Given kiddo's issues with that former canine pal, we're going to be going to some "meets" to make sure she's comfortable with a dog the size of a greyhound. From what Carey and I have read, they're pretty gentle, and you must only watch out for small animals running around outside - as a sight hound, the Greyhound might immediately take flight after said small furry object. 🙂

Target date is early next summer, but we'll see. In the meantime, feel free to post any thoughts here.

Picked up the iPhone 3G today. Setup was not too bad: I was able to provision the new phone via iTunes and immediately use a backup from my 2G iPhone to restore most my settings, files, apps, etc. Ran into a little trouble since the backup was from a later version of the OS (2.0.2) than the iPhone came with (likely 2.0.1, or maybe even 2.0).

Carey's phone was a bit easier to set up once I figured out that the iTunes error that kept getting thrown at me was due to the 12" PowerBook's lack of USB 2 ports ((Oddly, it worked once and even let me rename the iPhone to "Carey's iPhone" - but then it routinely failed to work after that.)). Lovely. I set her up with a MobileMe account since she still uses the 12" PowerBook as her primary computer, so synchronizing would be a pain otherwise. Anyway, after choosing to add the $20 plan (kudos to AT&T for recognizing the phone and not trying to juke me into the $35 get-up).

Now the hard part begins: training the wife on everything iPhone. 😀

Seems I enjoy using my iPhone to take pictures of typos. After all, there's this, this, and now this:

I really, really like Whispering Woods, and I'll likely be a member there next year exclusively (instead of being at both Lake View and Whispering Woods), but someone might want to check their spelling before posting signs: