A long goodbye
Today I say goodbye to the Champ. A fighter everyday, even his last. For most, one strike is enough. For others, it is three. But for this man, it took four to beat him. Never a day would you hear him complain. He made sure everything was in order, […]
Testing Plone
I’m testing a new site based on Plone. It’s development will be slow, but check in an comment periodically.
My how long…
This is too funny. The iPod toy, called iGuy, is definitely a guy, i.e. male. The rubbery cover for the iPod with arms and legs is cute, but when you slip off the legs and plug the iPod into the dock…. well the iGuy is please to see you. I have […]
Apple — Intel Prediction
As the Apple world collectively holds their breath until 10am PDT tomorrow — the time of Steve Jobs’ WWDC keynote — waiting to find out the true story of all the Apple on Intel rumors. I will offer my prediction, and see if I can one up the pundits.
Mac OS X on Intel […]
Photo Blogging
I’ve been thinking of adding a photo segment to the blog that would show a random photo each day from my collection. Turns out photo blogging is a lot bigger than I knew. Flickr is becoming widely used for people putting a kinds of photos online. The free service allows one to […]
Email services restored
The email server mail.pavlidis.org in back in service. I have a slue of emails to go through. I have possibly lost some of the emails sent in the last week, so if I don’t respond in the next few days then resend.
Back from the brink
On Thursday, in the middle of a major server upgrade a transformer blew in north-western Toronto. For most, the lights dimmed or flickered… just enough to reboot my server (I should really get a UPS…)
Turns out that the momentary lapse of electrons cause a filesystem corruption that prevented my /home and /tmp partiontions from […]