All the Pages Are My Days

I'm strongly considering migrating this site from MovableType to WordPress.

You can see a preview of my WordPress site here:

All the Pages, WordPress Edition!

I've been looking at a couple of different themes, and variations on those themes, and am close to making a decision; if you have any thoughts after reviewing the new site, please let me know in the comment section below.

I'm not up to doing a full-blown article on why I may be changing site software, but at this point I feel WordPress has better developer support and therefore a richer set of of core features as well as add-on functionality.

This is my main site for now, though I may post some articles on both sites. When I switch over, it will be transparent for the most part, though there will be obvious visual differences, plus I will announce the change.

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This is a very enjoyable song musically, an interesting video with a number of guest and cameo appearances, and it's especially timely tonight, the 45th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King's I have a dream speech, and the night Barack Obama gave his acceptance speech as the Democratic candidate for President of the United States.

You can view full details of the video, including a list of performers, at this YouTube site.

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Here are the results from a pleasant Sunday afternoon's photo session. We've seen dragonflies, flowers and sunsets already this month, and today we add pollen covered bumblee-bees and thistle.

The first picture is of a bumblebee whose legs are covered in pollen. To be honest, one of the best pictures of this sort that I've ever taken.

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Purple thistle plant.

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This yellowjacket was decided the steering wheel was a nice place to rest. It survived and so did we.

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Old Mill in Lindsborg.

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Flowers at the Old MIll, and then a butterfly, finishing with a moth.

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Larger versions available on Flickr; the pollen covered bee is wonderful at larger resolutions.

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We went up to Coronado Heightslate this afternoon with the intention of taking photos of the many different flowers in bloom. We saw George and Chris on the way up, and once we got to the top found many folks were enjoying the pleasant summer day.

It was a bit windy, so most of my photos were too blurry to use, but there were a few that turned out ok. My favorites are the 3 middle photos:

Larger versions available at my Flickr August Flowers set.

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Here are some photos taken in the late afternoon and early evening of a nice summer day.

Interestingly, these photos were taken almost 2 years after I posted a set of damselfly photos; guess it's that time of year, as the first photos from today feature dragonflies.

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We were heading south of town after shooting the dragonflies at Lakewood Park in Salina and came across a few guinea hens so I pulled over and grabbed some quick pictures.

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We picked up some bbq and decided to eat supper at Coronado Heights. Naturally, I took a few pictures, including a panorama made from 6 separate images.

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As usual, you're invited to view my Flickr August Day set for more photos from today, all available in a variety of sizes.

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It's time for another round of stamp postings! The engraved printing technique really highlights these colorful minerals from French Antarctica.

These images are also visible on Flickr as well as via a flash-based slide-show.

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I was interesting in evaluating MarkSpace's SyncTogether program as a potential solution for keeping 2 Mac OS X address books, owned by two different users, in sync.

Well, right off the bat I ran into problems. Immediately upon launching the program I received this error:

An SSL certificate for mike@terrapin-pro could not be generated.

Contacting customer support resulted in a fairly quick response, but it didn't help. They pointed me to an FAQ entry that didn't match my symptoms.

Then, in typical busman's holiday fashion (I nominally took today off), I spent a couple of hours debugging the problem this afternoon.

First, via the console app, I found the SyncTogether script that was failing. It was calling the utility certtool and getting a permission denied error.

I tried this and I tried that (including running SyncTogether as root, w/no problems) and finally ended up finding the answer when I searched for "os x keychain location and permissions" which lead to a very useful Mac OS X Hints page.

It turned out the answer was to launch /Applications/Utilities/Keychain Access.app and perform a Keychain First Aid. Doing so revealed this error:

User differs on ~/Library/Keychains/login.keychain, should be 501, owner is 0

and once it was corrected SyncTogether launched without incident.

Hopefully later today I'll get a chance to actually evaluate SyncTogether!

Oh, and here it is in FAQ format:

Q. I'm getting the following error, what should I do?

An SSL certificate for user@host could not be generated.

A. Launch /Applications/Utilities/Keychain Access.app and perform a Keychain First Aid.

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