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Don’t Try This

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Using Lion’s new Recovery partition and its pre-installed tools, don’t try to erase the main hard disk of a MacBook Pro. You can’t do it. The drive won’t unmount to perform the partition or erase commands in Disk Utility.

It’s because the Recovery partition is “part” of that main hard disk and therefore the hard disk is technically in use. Disk Utility won’t let you partition or erase a disk that’s in use.

Here’s a word of caution about this. OWC blogs about this issue of cloning Lion-based hard disks due to the Recovery partition. Seems like the best bet is to create a bootable USB Flash drive, start from it, and perform the Disk Utility actions.

Weekend Slowdown

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Noticed a big drop in traffic over the weekend. This coincided with extremely slow site performance for unknown reasons. Pulpconnection wouldn’t error out as in the past but took over 30 seconds for a page to load.

I’m wondering if this was related to a service issue with CloudFlare. Now that this issue has been fixed, performance is good but I still don’t know the cause.

This web stuff sure can get complicated.

Loving iCloud Backup and Restore

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I never really paid attention to iCloud’s Backup and Restore features before. I had enabled this feature since it sounded like the thing to do but never really understood the ramifications. I found out today.

After fighting with an unresponsive home button on my iPhone 4 for some time, I took it to Apple’s Genius Bar twice this week. First, my phone’s OS and firmware were reloaded. That helped a little bit, but there would be times I had to jam the home button 2-3 times before anything happened.

So today when I went back, Apple replaced my iPhone 4 with a new refurbished unit. Cool. The old phone had automatically backed up to iCloud this morning so after configuring this replacement phone, I said to restore from iCloud. Within 20 minutes over the Apple’s Store Wifi connection, all my settings, folders, and iCloud data was restored. The apps started reinstalling themselves too but this took longer, understandably.

So the iCloud backup isn’t just for contacts and calendars but for everything! Read more about iCloud’s Backup and Restore.

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Whole Foods Kailua Opening Madness

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Whole Foods Market Kailua opened today seeing more than 600 shoppers in the first hour! I wonder if any opening day sales were set by this Grand Opening?

Sunset at Whole Foods Market Kailua. A new sales record at the close of the first day?

Passing by the store after work, it was still bustling with crowds. No, I didn’t go inside, but as I drove past the entrance, you could see the shoppers streaming in and out. And the parking situation? It was pure parkemonium! Hmmm, that’s a good word for UrbanDictionary.

Actually, I take it back. Thursday will be sheer parkemonium. Along with those checking out WFM Kailua, the always-busy Farmers Market happens on Thursdays. So the already bad parking situation will be acerbated by vendors occupying precious parking stalls.

Since this is the week of @ryankanno, I’ll associate/blame him for this Whole Foods madness as well. I’m sure at some point in time, he must have said something about the organic food offerings at Whole Foods being delish or AMAZING.

A Week of @ryankanno

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It all started with a tofu katsu.

While searching for recommendations at Sam’s Delicatessen, I came across @ryankanno’s recommended dish, the tofu katsu.

So we ordered it. Yeah, pretty good for a vegetarian dish.

Then Monday. I’m in a training class with other former Kanno coworkers. Hmmm.

Then Tuesday. While in class, a scruffy guy walks by. It’s none other than @parkrat who I was introduced to by Mr. Kanno.

That’s three days, and three inferences to Ryan. Is it some kind of sign? Wonder what the rest of the week will bring?

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