Intuition & Elbow Grease™

Lion (OSX 10.7) is now available, although I don’t feel compelled to upgrade. The Mac Minis have lost their optical drives. No more white Macbook (your choices are either an Air or a Pro for laptops now) Not sure how I feel about the loss of the optical drives… On the one hand I think [...]

If you didn’t know it about me, I’m a very big fan of using text as my default method of storing information.  Whether it’s a note about the specific hex colors for a website, my daily tasks, projects or  todo lists, I keep them all in plaintext files.  I made the transition to text-only years [...]

Just a quick note this morning to remind everyone to make sure that you’re making plenty of backups of your data.   I’m a bit paranoid when it comes to data loss, so I like to take extra precautions.  Since all of our computers are macs every machine here has an external drive attached for using [...]

Here’s one from the 2003 archives: Did you know that PHP could interface with a MySQL database? Well it can, and here’s how! The code below illustrates just how easy it is to produce a nice table with headers populated with data culled from a database. One little trick I like to use (and have [...]

UPDATE:  Looks like it’s been re-enabled.  Hopefully for good.  Maybe they were upgrading the service. Looks like Google may be having some issues w/their IMAP services.  I noticed earlier that my palm pilot couldn’t access my gmail account via IMAP, producing a connection error.  When I log into my gmail settings, the IMAP section from [...]

Gentoo Prefix Bootstrap Process for Mac OS X has a lengthy walkthrough on getting Gentoo‘s emerge package management system installed onto a Mac OSX system.  Naturally I had to give it a shot!  I’ve never worked with Gentoo before so I really had no idea what to expect from emerge. From a few conversations with [...]

Well I didn’t exactly update the site per se.  I moved Intuition & Elbow Grease to a new server and in the process upgraded to the latest version of WordPress.   I created a new database and installed the code fresh (i.e. I performed a ‘new’ install) and then restored my posts from an exported xml [...]