A day of updates
Pete Callaway gave me a heads up this morning with a Twitter that arrived on my phone via SMS. Indeed I had been waiting for an update to the Airport Extreme’s disk functionality to allow it to work with Time Machine, something that has had numerous mentions in this very blog. I downloaded the update and updated the firmware of my AEBS but realised that the disk that I bought prior to Leopards release is not only resident on my PowerMac but its not really big enough for my backups, let alone sharing it. I think I’ll sleep on it but my initial options are to either buy a new 1TB external drive or reallocate the two 320GB drives I’m currently using. I’m loath to do that as it would mean that I’d have repartition the FW800 drive. It would stay on my Mac (due to the firewire interface) and is currently split between a bootable system backup and the remainder being shared for James’ Mac Mini backups. I’d then have to ditch my current Time Machine backups as that USB2 drive would be destined for the AEBS. It would give us a clean 320GB each but a) does he need that much backup? His Mini is only filled with crap, and b) do I want to give up my bootable system backup which while still from Tiger days gives me a lot of comfort.
In addition to giving myself more things to think about than necessary I also took the plunge and updated WordPress. My theme hadn’t been compatible initially and I noted earlier today that they had recently updated it. It was relatively trouble free. The early versions of the theme didn’t properly support widgets so I has side bar modules installed and a WordPress widget disabler. It seems that its the exact opposite now as it works with widgets but the sidebar module plugin was a bit dead. In real terms it means that my random flickr pictures are now the latest in my photo stream and I’ve not replaced the counter that was ominously counting down to my 40th (which is on the 30th in case you want to send me presents, cash or alcohol).
