Flute Player

All I get clicking on the "Get Dolly Clone" button is a placeholder URL http://www.dollydrive.com/dolly-clone/#

Ever since Apple "improved" TextEdit with their Lion OS, I've found it a miserable experience to work with – especially for editing Perl scripts. Fortunately, there's Dashcode (probably what I should have been using all along!)

On Friday, I had my first cup of coffee since March 15, 2004. Starbucks was giving away samples and so I succommed to trying all three – it was good! (I preferred the Blonde brew the best)

Most of my old printed transcriptions were done in SuperPaint, now a long defunct graphics program for the Mac. Every now and then I want one of those old charts and need SuperPaint to open them. Fortunately, I still have a Mac that can run it. Once open, I can save the file as a TIFF which I can then import into a more modern program to export as PDF. Meanwhile, all the photo copies I made and original laser prints still look fine – technology changes fast, paper not so much. So if you want a document to last, print it!

Not sure what's up with the noticeable drop in battery life for my iPhone 4S compared to my "old" iPhone 4, but I suspect it might have to do with Siri and the other Location Services. So I'm turning Location Services off to see if that makes any difference. I'll be heading over to the Apple Store soon to talk with them about it too.

OAKLAND
Saturday, February 4, 8:00 – 10:00 PM
Cosmo's Jazz Spot
4609 Shattuck Ave.
Oakland CA
Website: cosmosjazzspot.com

SANTA ROSA
Thursday, February 23, 7:30-9:30 PM
Gaia's Garden Vegetarian Restaurant
1899 Mendocino Ave
Santa Rosa CA
Website: gaiasgardenonline.com

Ricardo Peixoto, guitar
Jean-Michel Hure, guitar
Bob Afifi, flute
Kendrick Freeman, drums
Chuck Sher, bass
Website: shermusic.com/owb

The link  for the iTunes Store (https://buy.itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZFinance.woa/wa/buyLandingPage ) on http://www.apple.com/itunes/gifts/ doesn't work on the iPad and iPhone – just spits up code.  Tried to make it work several times yesterday, but no luck.  Finally gave up and went to Amazon. Still down today, so just showed the bug to a guy at the Apple Store and he said iTunes is its own department and there's nothing they can do. Perfect.

Thanks to the tip from konstruktors.com this is how I was able to remove the 'View all posts filed under' line which hovers over the link categories. It's not included on their page, but since it's a php file, you need to have start and close tags.  Here's my mod:

<?php
add_filter('wp_list_categories', 'remove_category_link_prefix');

function remove_category_link_prefix($output) {
return str_replace('View all posts filed under ', ", $output);
}
?>

I wanted to put the category list in the sidebar, so here's my hack.

<?php
/**
* Template for category archives
*
* @package WordPress
* @subpackage Minimatica
* @since Minimatica 1.0
*/

get_header(); ?>
<?php if( ( 'gallery' == minimatica_get_option( 'category_view' ) ) && ( get_query_var( 'cat' ) != minimatica_get_option( 'blog_category' ) ) ) : ?>
<div id="slider">
<?php get_template_part( 'loop', 'slider' ); ?>
</div><!– #slider –>
<?php else : ?>
<div>
<h1><?php single_cat_title(); ?></h1>
</div><!– .title-container –>
<div id="container">
<?php get_template_part( 'loop', 'category' ); ?>
<?php
echo "Galleries";
wp_list_categories('title_li='); ?>
<?php get_sidebar(); ?>
<div></div>
</div><!– #container –>
<?php endif; ?>
<?php get_footer(); ?>

<*> Because it's in the sidebar the list shows with bullets.  To remove the bullets, I added   list-style: none; to the #container part of the style.css file.

#container {
width:940px;
margin:0 auto;
margin-bottom:20px;
border-bottom:#CCC 1px solid;
list-style: none;
}

Another thing I changed to make the Minimatica theme blog view more to my liking was simply to change the pages count so that more images would show before having to go to a new page.  The default WordPress setting is 10.  I changed it to 20.