The New Toy Arrives

So, despite the FedEx tracking page being messed up all day, it was waiting for me when I got home tonight!

So far? Yeah, I’m pretty darn happy.

Print Screen On a Macbook Under Boot Camp 3.1

Because there is all kinds of conflicting info out there (because Apple has changed it a bunch of times) and because I constantly forget how to do it and then have to spend a bunch of time looking it up…

If you want to do a Print Screen on a Macbook running in Windows under Boot Camp 3.1, these instructions from Howard work perfectly on my Macbook:

To do a print screen while running Windows in Boot Camp and using a Mac keyboard, use the keyboard combination: SHIFT + FN + F11

Also, FWIW, that works for me even though I have the F-keys set as normal function keys, rather than “hardware control keys” in Boot Camp (I do have to hold the FN key to turn my volume up with the keyboard). Doing just Shift-F11 does not work.

Dear Glynor: How Do I Get the New iOS 4 Hotness For My iPhone 3GS?

Like many of us who are computer geeks, we spend a lot of time doing tech support for our close friends and families. While this can sometimes be a pain, it also has the occasional side-benefit that you get to be the one to deliver good news about upgrades and fancy new features to your loved ones. Today is one of those days.

While my dad didn’t actually (yet) write me and ask about how to upgrade his iPhone 3GS to iOS 4, I’m just preempting the call and explaining it to him myself. I’ve been running iOS 4 for almost two weeks now (since they released the GM seed at WWDC) on my iPhone 3G. I also upgraded Jenn’s 3GS to iOS 4 about a week ago (when iTunes 9.2 was officially released). Both of us have only seen minimal issues with the new release, so I’m comfortable recommending the upgrade the new hotness (especially if you are on a 3GS).

I originally wrote all of this up in an email, but I decided that it would be good to post it here, just in case others might benefit from it. So, if you happen to want to know exactly how to upgrade you iPhone 3GS to iOS 4, and can’t figure it our yourself, then read on!

Spastic and Violently

It could have been written about Louisiana, and to all of us.

Dear friend, as you know
Your flowers are withering
Your mother’s gone insane
Your leaves have drifted away
But the clouds are clearing up
And I’ve come reveling
Burning incandescently
Like a bastard on the burning sea

You’re just like your father
Buried deep under the water
You’re resting on your laurels
And stepping on my toes
Whose side are you on?
What side is this anyway?
Put down your sword and crown
Come lay with me on the ground

Maybe The Magic Space-Man Will Save Us

So we’re down to this now?

“Thus far efforts made by mortals to try to solve the crisis have been to no avail,” state Sen. Robert Adley said in a statement released after last week’s unanimous vote for the day of prayer. “It is clearly time for a miracle for us.”

The resolution names Sunday as a statewide day of prayer in Louisiana and calls on people of all religions throughout the Gulf Coast “to pray for an end to this environmental emergency, sparing us all from the destruction of both culture and livelihood.”