Yesterday, I went to Fry's again to pick up a Big Disk for my server (the one hosting my book's site and this blog). I was happily surprised to find that they had a sale, ending that day, on Seagate 500GB hard drives, with a 5-year warranty, no less. Normally $300, they were on sale for $200. I hadn't even noticed the sale price, and was considering a different brand (I don't have a great feeling about Seagate, but then, I don't have a great feeling about any hard disk manufacture, but have not had any experience yet, good [...]
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Say what nasty things you want about Fry's, and they'll probably be true, but nevertheless I must say that my visit today to the Sunnyvale location was like a kid in a candy store. I hadn't been to an electronics superstore like Fry's in a long time, and there was just so much stuff to enjoy.

My main reason for going was to pick up a cheap router. The old Netopia R9100 that Steve had given me long ago finally seems to have bit the dust and stopped serving DHCP clients. After spending a few days futzing [...]
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I wrote and still maintain Yahoo::Search, a Perl package for accessing Yahoo!s Search API. It's included as part of SDK, and also available on CPAN.

Just a week ago, Yahoo! pushed out a new version of the SDK, including the most recent version of Yahoo::Search. A few days later Yahoo! made a perfectly legal change to the XML they send back that is, unfortunately, incompatible with the mini XML parser I use in Yahoo::Search. To make matters worse, my package's error handling was ungracefully horrible, and the error messages were worthless.

I've pushed out a new version [...]
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(This post is mostly for the search engines, to help others looking for the solution that this post provides)

Lightroom, Adobe's high-volume photo workflow application, stores all kinds of user-preference and per-image data in an SQLite database. As of the Beta 3 release, the database is stored in one file, the Mac filename being "/Users/username/Pictures/Lightroom/Lightroom B3 Library.aglib"

If you're technically-minded and want to peek at the database directly, you might try to access it with the sqlite3 command, which comes standard with OSX, and be disappointed to find that it doesn't work:

Eric Scouten provided the answer in [...]
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Today it's much cooler, only 79F (26C) in the shade at the moment. The last few had been very hot, surpassing 100F (38C) and causing the threat of rolling blackouts. (Some places did have blackouts because local transformers couldn't handle the load.)

When bought my new MacBook, I opted for the 80 gig drive, rather than the standard 60 gig, to give myself plenty of space. Thus, it is with great shock that I find it's already getting full.

Part of it could be the 20GB of videos for Anthony, the 21GB of images from my brother's [...]