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OSX Passenger prefpane tip

I recently undid all my MacPorts and started using Homebrew for some software on my Macs. That meant uninstalling the Apache MacPort and switching back to the default Snow Leopard version of Apache. Everything went relatively smoothly but today a noticed that my Passenger prefpane wasn’t listing all the Rails sites it had previously been managing.

Turns out it was because in my original install of the prefpane I had used the “ports” version of a required ruby file, per instructions, since I was using the MacPort version of Apache. The easy fix is to just reinstall the prefpane. All of my sites now show up in the site listing and I can add the new site I’m currently developing.

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Boxee!!!

Boxee!!!

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Packer duds

Packer duds

Penny got some of the Packer love this year!

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Four Eyes

Four Eyes

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Back on Consumerist! – December 2010 edition

They love my Pepsi pic over there. 🙂 And don’t listen to the voices coming from the Pepsi machines at CostCo. They’ll drive you mad.

My Pepsi machine picture on Consumerist - December 1, 2010

I’ve had four pictures make it to Consumerist. Some used a couple of times, like this Pepsi pic. Here’s my list.

Cathy’s also had one of her pictures used twice.

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Our little Wookie

Our little Wookie

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Penny has a new “collar”

Penny has a new "collar"

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Angry Birds Halloween domination complete …

Angry Birds Halloween domination complete ...

… almost. I have two achievements to still get. the 4,100,000 score one and 50,000 blocks broken.

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Dr. Strange-charset-conversion Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Converting From Latin1 to UTF8

Recently, at work, I’d decided it was time to deal with my MySQL charset problems. In most places my server db was set to a latin1 charset. Unfortunately, someone who maintains content has been pasting unicode characters in. While my public websites display the information correctly, when I synced the content to my local development computer those unicode characters would display incorrectly. The image below shows the comparison.

Charset problem comparison

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Old kitchen wallpaper

Old kitchen wallpaper

We are finally painting our kitchen and after pulling the oven away from the wall we found the old wallpaper from the previous owner.

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