Just before heading to Buenos Aires I bought a new MacBook Pro. I upgraded from a ~3 year old 2.0ghz Core Duo (not Core 2) model which was pretty much the best computer I’ve ever owned. I upgraded because despite it’s excellent history of reliability, my engineering senses told me that it was time to [...]

So I’m in BA and I’m getting all of my tech necessitates sorted out. So far things are not bad. We have DSL in the apartment that seems comparable to AT&T DSL (nothing great but workable) and WiFi is plentiful in the many local cafe’s. I find myself hoping from cafe to cafe to access [...]

We arrived in BA yesterday. It’s beautiful. We are little tired from the trip but we dig our apartment and we’re getting settled in now. Here’s the tour of the apartment:

I wrote this little script ages ago and it has indeed saved my ass. It may be ghetto but a good friend and much better SA than I thought it was clever so here it is:
“export d=`date +%F`
mysqldump –opt -u yourDBuser –password=YourDBpassword yourDatabaseName |gzip -f >yourdatabase.db.$d.gzip
uuencode yourdatabase.db.$d.gzip yourdatabase.db.$d.gzip | mail YourGmailAddy@gmail.com”
That’s it! You get a [...]

Some people may not realize how much their old scratched up iPhone 3G is worth. The 3GS is out and I wanted it pretty bad for 2 reasons: 1) I’m an iPhone Developer. 2) Video recording. I’d had my 3G since right after they came out (actually waited in line here a bit in SF) [...]