Beautiful HTML Code

Very nifty 1 page guide to what is good HTML. Probably should be on the wall of any Web developer.

Killer Startups

Not rated my me, you understand: Killer Startups at CenterNetworks.

It's a good way of winnowing down your ideas. I've already found 2 of mine done by others:

http://oomix.com/

and

http://splashup.com/

Although my ideas differ in some ways. Anyway, best of success to them, and well, darn.

A Leopard ate my homework (a lesson in multi-level backup)

The Blink: Upgraded my OS, took 4 attempts, wiped my entire hard drive, first level backup was toast. Thank you Mozy. Which OS? Not Vista, but OS X Leopard. Who woulda thunk it?

The ugly details: So the Mac is supposed to be easy, easy. And generally it is. The upgrade instructions said that everything would be just fine, don't worry. Ok, no worries.

Then the install said it didn't like my hard drive. Why? Who knows, it wouldn't tell me (I could have poked around in DiskUtil, but it wouldn't have helped). My Mac Mini is 18 months old, I haven't done anything weird to the disk - huh?

So, after 4 attempts, one reformatted hard drive, finding my backup to my Maxtor external disk was toast, and finding that Mozy is still worthy of my love, I nearly have a working system again.

But c'mon: what's scary here is that if I messed up the backup to my Maxtor disk, what about other people who don't use online backups?

The coup de grace was at the end of the install Leopard offered to copy over my user settings from "another volume". Uh ... could you have offered to back them up before you wiped my drive?

Oh, and those iLife apps that came with my Mac Mini? Lucky I still have the original OS media that came with the Mini, otherwise I'd be spending extra money for the new iLife 08 (not much, I know, but it would be just one extra slice of pain).

Never, ever upgrade an OS. Go and buy a new machine instead. At the online Apple Store a standard Mac Mini is only $600.