Don’t Try This
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
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.
The Happiest Place in the World Got Happier
Disneyland, the Happiest Place in the World, just got a little bit happier… for caffeine addicts anyways. Starbucks is joining Mickey and Donald in the Magic Kingdom.
What took so long? I don’t know but are you willing to pay for a $7 coffee drink? I’m just guessing at that price, but I can definitely believe it for a Venti.
Super Geeks Nuuanu No More
That colorful home of the Super Geeks at the end of Iolani Ave is no more. The building’s now vacant and plainly painted in an off white.
Loving iCloud Backup and Restore
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.
We Are Young at Gilly Hicks
Why is it I think of Fun’s We Are Young when I pass by Gilly Hicks in Ala Moana?
Can’t Escape @ryankanno
Another day, another inference to @ryankanno. Today, I wore my VH07V shirt, designed and distributed by World Wide Ed.
Then it hit me! Thinking back, I was introduced to Ed by none other than Mr. Kanno. Don’t you get the feel that @ryankanno is the center of the universe, and we’re all bodies orbiting around him?
Pictures of Day 2 Whole Foods Market Kailua
The Grand Opening of Whole Foods Market Kailua was madness, but at the start of Day 2, the store looked ready to handle the crowds. Here are a few photos of the local foods offered and some other stuff you might not have noticed.
DWTS Season 14 Giving You Want You Want
Dancing with the Stars, Season 14, is giving you and me, the viewers, everything we want. Want more skin? Jaleel opens up shirt, Derek Hough takes off his shirt, and William Levy is well, William Levy. For the ladies, Peta’s dress was hardly there and Katherine Jenkins’ legs in that dress – wow.
And you know if the judges get what they want, it’ll benefit us. What do I mean? With the addition of the dance off for the bottom two, the judges can “save” the better dancers. This means that unless two heavyweights are in the bottom, we are going to get the ultimate Finals. That would be repeat champions Derek Hough (Seasons 7, 10, 11), Cheryl Burke (Seasons 2 & 3), and Mark Ballas (Seasons 6 & 8 ) going against each other for Mirrorball bragging rights. That would be an unforgettable mix of choreography, skill, and performance! Don’t forget about two-time champion Kym Johnson who has a chance with Urkel, and Donald Driver’s championship drive that could find him a spot in the Finals.
My favorites from Week 5. It used to be favorite (singular), but with all the great performances, I now have weekly favorites (plural).
Derek and Maria definitely did kiss in their sexy salsa.
Judge Carrie Ann Inaba said Katherine Jenkins has the best legs. See for yourself.
Cheryl Burke knows how to strategize William’s image to a victory.