Tiny automator app for syncing your iDisk

I got really sick of the fact that a 0.3 second failure of my wireless caused my iDisk to go offline completely, requiring restarting the Finder and waving a chicken to get it to wake up again. You can fix this, it turns out, by sending an alarm signal to the mirroring agent program.

Since many of you do not want to open the terminal or find out about the killall command or any of that crap, I made a very small Automator app that prompts you to make sure this is what you wanted and then forces the mirror agent to fire up and sync the disk. After that it will show as online just fine.

http://www.fringehead.org/misc/syncIdisk.tgz

Nice bug, Apple. Real nice.

spoon

I’m not going to Spoon tomorrow night.

Anyone wants 2 tickets, contact me. It’s at the Avalon in Hollywood.

Product placement in magazines

I remember journalism! It was this cool thing that we had when I was a kid, where ornery underpaid people wrote things and were paid for it because advertisers knew people liked to read it. Anyway, now we’re just going to make it all an ad anyway, and dispense with those troublesome ink-stained wretches.

We are all an advertorial now.

I am a camera.

I’ve been uploading a lot of my photos from the past couple years to my flickr page, you might want to take a lot. You could be there!

Today’s LJ post you should read

explosivo tells a sad, beautiful ghost story.

Hey explosivo!

My copy of The Vanity Project just shipped from Amazon! Woohoo!

I am full of anticipation. Signed, BNL fan in the OC.

Risks of debit card use

Via metafilter: Careful with that debit card, they may be putting a hold on your cash money for several days.

There’s a lot of hysteria about this with false reports of “$10 surcharges” etc, but retailers do put holds on credit cards regularly, and then they go ahead and do the same thing on a debit card which if you don’t have a lot of money can make your bank account kind of.. SPRAINED for a few days. Word to the wise (and broke).

Like all the other WHAT?

Not only was the F1 race in Indy a comic disaster, but Bernie Ecclestone… Well, just read below.

F1 boss likens Danica to ‘domestic appliance’
FOXSports.com
Posted: 13 hours ago

Danica Patrick has surged onto the open-wheel racing world, but that might not be sitting well with the old-school boss of Formula One racing.

Formula One is getting its most high-profile United States presence with the U.S. Grand Prix at Indianapolis Motor Speedway this weekend, but Formula One chief Bernie Ecclestone doesn’t seem to be too crazy about Patrick joining her male competitors on the track, despite her recent Indy 500 success.

“She did a good job, didn’t she? Super. Didn’t think she’d be able to make it like that,” Ecclestone told a gathering of reporters about Patrick’s Indy 500 finish.

“You know, I’ve got one of these wonderful ideas that women should be all dressed in white like all the other domestic appliances,” Ecclestone added.

Ecclestone has controlled Formula One for 25 years, amassing a fortune estimated at $3.7 billion. He has a holding company which operates some of F1’s commercial ventures, ranging from television rights to sponsorships.

But nine of the F1’s 10 teams are in dispute with Eccletone and others over the running of the sport and have threatened to start their own series in 2008. Only Ferrari has signed to stay with Ecclestone after the 2007 season.