Random and Opinionated Thoughts

by: Jennifer Zelazny

Life

Generation Instant Access

I recently went on a trip which required a long car ride with my son. I figured he would do fine – just as I did when I was his age. I did not have a DVD player and was entertained by just looking out the window or listening to my parent’s 8 tracks. When […]

Life

Where Have I Been?

In the last two weeks, I have been crazy busy and…: In New York On conference calls On more conference calls Playing Mario Cart Not blogging I will try to post some more and finally post an updated Jappler menus post.

Games

Wii Fit, MarioKart, and Guitar Hero

I have to say – it has been a long time since I was excited about a game or a gaming console…probably since SoCom II, but lately I have been super excited about the Nintendo Wii. We got Wii Fit and MarioKart over the last week and have been loving both. I am also now […]

Hints

Something For Ben, Ken, and Doug

We all need them. We all use them. We all realize the power – but with the exception of Ben – we all run into road blocks and frustration when we try and put something together. What are they? Regular Expressions. Take a look at the cool RegEx testing tool where you can easily test […]

Apple

Apple Saves the Day

Apple saves the day for me: Hello Jennifer, I’m sorry to hear the titles you purchased from the iTunes Store with account “xxx@xxx.com” were lost. I can certainly see how this would be upsetting and I would like to help. iTunes Store Customer Support has decided to let you download (at no charge) all the […]

Apple Serenity Now!

Lost iTunes Music

Recently I had my backup drive die which doubled as my music drive (dumb). I also in the past few weeks – cleaned out my off site backups which included my music (dumb). After not being very excited with what happened – I decided to do some research on some of my options to get […]

Hints HOWTOs WordPress

Find and Replace With phpMyAdmin (or using SQL)

Ever need to find and replace something in your WordPress database? (perhaps you changed domain names and have the old domain name or folder structure hard coded into some of your posts) You can easily update your database by using phpMyAdmin or by using the following code in any SQL interface: The first part of […]

Web Development

view-source: Firefox

I am generally a Safari user to do my web browsing unless I am debugging a web site – then I use Firefox because of the great web developer extensions. I cannot believe I did not know this before, but if you want to quickly view the source of anything (I just used it to […]

Places

Back From Vacation

For the first time in over 10 years – A, E, and I took a week and went on vacation. We usually take weekend trips to see family but have never taken anything longer than a weekend trip (vacation) together…until last week. We flew down to Florida to see some of my family and then […]

Apple UNIX

Copy to Clipboard in the Command Line Interface (CLI)

Ever wonder how to copy something from the command line into the Mac OS clipboard? If you want to copy/paste a files content (perhaps a log file or a conf file, etc) into the clipboard to use outside of the CLI, you can use the commands pbcopy and pbpaste. Example: I want to copy the […]