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The site went down for about a week and a half.

Just as I was ready to manually fix the issue plaguing my website the hard drive in my iMac completely died. It was replaced by Apple for free, but my latest backup was from two months ago. It took a whole day to get back up to speed on that.

Then students started moving in at UW-Whitewater and I was occupied all weekend. Oh, yeah I work for UW-Whitewater now as a ResNet Technical Support Analyst. It’ll pay for grad school while Kaela and I are here for the next two years.

I finally had time tonight to get the database reconfigured. There are some other minor things to reset, but that can wait. Expect more photos of tacos in the near future.

iPhone App Development

Stanford University has placed their entire iPhone Development Course online for anyone to download. After watching a few videos and reading through the documentation I decided to take the plunge and begin learning iPhone development. After installing X-Code and downloading the Software Development Kit direct from Apple I immediately began cranking away. After about an hour of tinkering the first sample program was complete.

1st App

The function of the program is very simple. The position of the slider assigns a number between 0 and 100. The numeric value selected with the slider is then displayed. Not bad for about an hour of work.

Up next: Assignment 1A and 1B

Foto Zeitgeist

This was quite the eBay deal for me. This unused Apple II Workstation Card makes it possible for an Apple IIe with 128 kilobytes of RAM to boot up over an Appleshare network. How much RAM is 128 kilobytes? Well, my current Apple iMac has 2 gigabytes, which by today’s standards is middle of the road in terms of performance. Two gigabytes is equal to 2,097,152 kilobytes. That means my current iMac machine has 8,192 times more RAM than my Apple IIe. Isn’t it amazing what you can do with technology from 1983?

Audio Zeitgeist

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