Brian Jepson’s Weblog

I installed Vista under Boot Camp today, and my Mac wouldn’t boot into Mac OS X afterwards. It was sitting there on the blue screen with the mouse cursor. Of course I blamed it on boot camp at first. I plugged it into Ethernet (wasn’t getting an Airport connection at this point) and ssh’d into it from another machine. Turns out it was hanging on this umount /Volumes/Foo that I had stuck into rc.local a long time ago. I have no idea why installing Vista would trigger that behavior, but it’s gone from that file now and boots up fine. Who do I talk to about getting that hour of my life back?

Google is trying to be helpful here, but it’s wrong. If you click on that link, it’s for 2006.

This event happens every couple of years, and is a lot of fun. It’s a great way to support some really important programs, and you get to go home with a photo:

For those of you who are not familiar, the Photo Lottery is a unique fundraiser that allows patrons who purchase a Photo Lottery ticket to take home a work of photo based art from our opening. A number on each ticket sold will correspond at random to one of at least 125 works of art on the wall at the reception. Everyone who buys a ticket is a winner. Everybody is invited to come to attend Photo Lottery free of charge, but only people who buy tickets will win photography. We do not sell more tickets than there are artworks. The past two events have been incredibly successful and made a meaningful impact on our ability to support and serve the artists and youth in our community. We look forward to 2007 being even better!

See the 2007 Photo Lottery web site for more information.

I’m not at ETech this year, but I’m following my colleague SarahM’s coverage on Twitter.

Right now, I don’t have Twitter set up to send me notifications via SMS, because that would probably drive me nuts (I use text messages for GCal and Remember the Milk notifications so SMS is basically my todo list). At Brian Sawyer’s suggestion, I’m using Twitteriffic, which is very nice (they have a beta of version 2.0 out that’s worth trying out).