Today’s amusing email

First, I received a very important swank invite from Sun Microsystems to their Executive Summit for Wireless and Entertainment at SFMOMA, business/cocktail attire! 7-11 pm! I bet there will be big shrimp! This rules! Then, shortly afterwards, I get the item below. Awkwaaaaaard! Name of sender removed because I’ve been there and I don’t want to be shitty to the poor guy.

From: [REDACTED]
Date: June 23, 2005 11:31:13 AM PDT
To: me
Subject: APOLOGY: Reminder: JavaOne Wireless & Entertainment Summit

Dear substitute:

Please accept our apologies as you were recently sent the below message in error. Sun Microsystems deeply regrets any inconvenience this may have caused. We are taking action to update our processes to ensure that this does not happen again.

Thank you,
Sun Microsystems

JavaOne Mobile & Entertainment Executive Summit Dinner
An Exclusive Event from Sun Microsystems
You are confirmed to attend:
Topic: Mobile & Entertainment Executive Summit Dinner
Date: Tuesday, June 28, 2005
Time: 7pm – 11pm (Reception 7pm, Dinner 8pm)
Location: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
 151 Third Street (between Mission and Howard Streets) (view map)
Dress: Business/Cocktail
For additional questions, contact [REDACTED[

We look forward to seeing you there.
Best Regards,
[REDACTED]
Vice President of Foo, Bar, and Baz

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.