I have a painting that I inherited from my great-grandparents, Van Midgley and Deane Caine Midgley (Alder). It is painted by Utah/Norwegian artist Paul Fjellboe with the title “Capri”. I’ve done some searching on it on the Internet and found that he was a painter of many famous Utah landscapes. But, I haven’t found any reference to this painting at all. I’ve included pictures of it. If anyone who might be looking for Paul Fjellboe paintings have any information about it, please leave a comment.
Just wanted to make a quick comment about my experience upgrading my hard drive on my MacBook Pro.
I got my 500 gb hard drive from Other World Computing along with the portable drive kit.
It was just a matter of putting the new drive in the external enclosure, firing up Carbon Copy Cloner, clone the old drive, take out the old drive, replace with new drive, boot laptop, and it works!
All my files and applications all there. The part that took the longest was cloning the old hard drive onto the new.
Let’s see a Windows laptop owner do that!
I wasn’t sure if I was really going to blog about this. But I decided, why not.
The company that I work for has a deal with AT&T to give us a discount on AT&T phone plans. Great! I said, I’ll switch and get an iPhone. That was 2 years ago, so I got the original iPhone.
Well, I was told then that there would be no discounts on iPhone plans period.
Recently, a collegue of mine got a iPhone 3G and he told me he got a discount on his plan. Great!, I say. So I marched down to the local AT&T store to get my discount. Here is what they told me.
The only people that “should” get discounts for any iPhone are AT&T and Apple employees. For other customers, there are no discounts for original iPhone plans. For new iPhone 3G customers, they could get a discount sometimes. SOMETIMES?? She couldn’t explain to me what “sometimes” means other than “It’s a loophole in the system”.
Okay, this makes no sense to me. Either you get a discount or you don’t based on the code that you have set on your account. There is no SOMETIMES in software.
So, with this interaction, I figured out why they say that AT&T Customer Service is BAD. It’s not that they are not polite and kind to customers. It’s that they enjoy screwing the customer over with rules such as these. The representive I spoke with was very nice, but couldn’t tell me anything outside the company rhetoric.
I just hope with the next version of the iPhone (June??) they will change their ways and think of the customer a little more than just their bottom line.
I found the following somewhere on another blog and thought that I would just pass it on.
If you are doing any debugging in XCode and want to really debug any memory issues, this .gdbinit file works great. It has a lot of the gdb commands that you would want for that. Read the rest of this entry »
January 8th, 2009 in
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Hello World!
This is my first blog post on my first blog. I hope to be able to have some content on here about my experiences getting back into Cocoa programming and also some iPhone programming.
My other hobby is doing genealogy of my family. I have gotten pretty far with the Townsend family, but have hit a road block for now.
Stay tuned for more information.
