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May 15, 2006

iPod alert!

Phew.

I got cold sweats.

My brand new iPod Nano froze today. I have had it only 5 days. I was not listening to it; it was paused, on "hold", ini my (ample) pocket. I did not bump it, not shook it, nor bend it. I have been very gentle with it. But this afternoon, going out of Starbucks, I pulled it out of my pocket, and it was not responsive. The screen was blank (nothing on it whatsoever, as if the battery was out). I looked on the web, and found this nice site. I finally revived it after 3 or 4 hold-on/hold-off then reboot. It's ok now. I hope this won't happen again anytime soon.

Update from july 10: it seems to have fixed itself now. Go figure.

Transition Guide

Even though the switch to the Intel Mac was much less painful than anticipated, it's still worth documenting.

I received my MacBook Pro (2GHz, 2GB RAM) last Thursday evening. I proceeded with the setup right away, of course, and I basically was done at the end of the next day. The main problem I had was with the blog install (what else?), in particular with phpMyAdmin/mysql. Note that during the last weeks, I had slowly tried to upgrade many apps to their universal versions, to ease out the transition.

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