Dette er litt tungvint viss ein skal setja nye bein på rammemadrassa si og ikkje har assistanse umiddelbart tilgjengeleg, t.d. fordi klokka er halv tolv om kvelden. Men det viser seg at det går an, viss ein er passeleg sterk, å løfta madrassa nokre grader opp slik at ein kan krypa under, og deretter løfta opp madrassen medan ein prøver å krypa rundt under. Litt som ein bilmekanikar under ein bil, bortsett frå at bilmekanikaren gjerne ikkje treng å bera bilen på armar og kne medan han akar seg rundt under bilen, men tvertimot har ein høveleg jekk eller lift til det formålet.

Undermadrasskryping er tungt, men gjerbart. Endå litt meir tungvint når det viser seg at dei nye beina, som til liks med dei gamle er spesiallaga til nett den sengeserien, er ørlitegrann for breie for sporet og må spikkast til. Men det kan gå det også, viss ein har tollekniven tilgjengeleg. Ein har vel tollekniven tilgjengeleg?

Sjølvsagt. Han heng rett innanfor døra, der han til dagleg tenestegjer som brevopnar og som samtaleemne for gjester som lurer på kvifor eg har ein kniv hengande på dørklinka. Han bør kanskje slipast. Han beit ikkje imponerande godt frå seg i treverket.

A very few of them are online on my album site. That site, incidentally, runs Gallery2, which is a very powerful and versatile piece of software. It’s also tricky to manage, ridicolously overpowered and overgadgeted, the themes I’ve looked at all stink (honestly, (1) table layouts for galleries is just wrong, and (2) when using css flow, like you should, can’t you do it right? Y’know, like making it look good?) and the WordPress integration plugin looks horrible.

WordPress 2.5 is going to have galleries, but they’ll be linked to posts, which won’t cut it for me, so I’ll still need some external gallery thingy.

ZenPhoto looks promising. It’s simple, it offers clean, if not perfect, themes (narrow columns: good for text. Ungood in galleries.), the integration plugin works and looks good in posts, and even better integration with WordPress is promised in a future release. It has a nice and simple filesystem interface (upload a directory of images, and they’ll appear automatically). There’s no process for exporting from Gallery2, though, which is a downer. That job is gonna suck.

I have a lot of recent pictures. I have stories I want to tell, and I want to illustrate them. Which means I need to solve this problem somehow to calm my inner geek beast.

(You may or may not have noticed a lot of theme changes in the blog recently. It’s part of this process: Find a theme that’s nice and simple and integrates well with whatever.)

I could say “fuck it” and switch to PicasaWeb and Blogger. It would be simple. It would be easy. It would be restrictive. It wouldn’t be hacky. Hacky good. We likes to code, yes we does.

• Diskutil reported minor errors on the system disk.

Boot from install CD, run Diskutil from pull-down menu.

• Partitioning failed due to unmovable files.

Shrinking the partition size dodged the problem but left me with a smaller partition than I really wanted. Rumor has it that Parallels’ disk images are to blame and that moving them isnt really a problem.

• Boot Camp didn’t recognize Windows XP CD I burnt via MSDN.

Booting the CD manually worked.

A future hurdle may be that I had to activate Windows to upgrade to Media Player 11 to get functional video codecs, so if I decide to reinstall to enlarge the partition, or move Windows off to a different machine should one become available, I might have problems with the license.

Why? Mac games are few in number. and perpetually expensive. Windows games are legion, and cheap a year or two after release.

Example.

1. Dataset in text file contains N unique rows which I may want to update now and then.
2. N is large.
3. No column value is unique to each row, so there is no natural primary key.
4. Every row is guaranteed to be unique.
5. Does MySQL have some operator, procedure, function or command I can use to avoid duplicate rows when updating database from new text source? Can’t find any.