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I'm glad the sun and warm weather are returning to Northeast Ohio. Continue reading post "#3307"

My home air conditioner stopped working today, making it rather hot. Continue reading post "#1920"

A Thursday night snowstorm made for some rather nice looking snow cover on tree branches and the ground Friday morning. Continue reading post "#1798"

Day 1 of GiveCamp done. Really hot. The air conditioning was out in the airport and it really heated up in there.

My project this year is for the International Women's Air & Space Museum. The minimum project was pretty easy and we're basically done with it already. Continue reading post "GiveCamp 2017 day 1"

Yay! I finally found a job. After six months of no income, I needed it. I'm doing front-end development for Cogneato, a small web development firm in Akron. They've done quite a few sites over the past decade, and have their own CMS/CRM they've built over that period. It's pretty neat, allowing for some complicated things to be done with data and interesting features for managing customer information. It has many fancy AJAX features in the administrator interface. There have been seven people working there, and another one is coming soon. I only get to work on the front-end though.

Cogneato is only a 20 or so minute drive from my house. The atmosphere is very casual (hoodies instead of ties) and relaxed, very comfortable to work at. The owner and all the employees have been very nice.

I've had a site pulling one particular image from my site. It gives no referre…

Today, I noticed a strange thing while doing a bit of filesystem cleanup: My entire iPhoto library, containing 8000+ images, had somehow turned into a 300k alias file pointing to nothing. Concerned, I looked elsewhere to make sure I hadn't just stored it in a different location for organization purposes and the alias had broken. I hadn't. Then I remembered earlier today noticing that my hard drive seemed significantly roomier than normal. I had just emptied the trash a couple days ago (usually don't empty often, just in case), but there shouldn't have been anything nearly that big in there.

Luckily, I use Apple's Time Machine for backup, plus my own other methods. In Time Machine, I went back about two weeks before the actual library was there. Restored it of course.

I have no idea what happened there. I hadn't used iPhoto or been reorganizing anything around that area for a full month. If I had somehow accidentally created an alias in the folder, there would be no reason it wouldn't perform he normal action of appending alias to the name.