Entries from September 2008 ↓

• Awesome long weekend that was… Really great weather, and just some good
  downtime. I do sometimes wish for the days when I got all of … #

• Fixing up some stuff on my dad-in-law’s Vista computer – what a
  stupidly un-user-friendly operating system. #

OK, so I encountered this problem that was weird, and I figured out a fix I haven’t seen anywhere else, so thought I would post it here for others.

The problem basically has all your apps starting but then just crashing and tossing you back to the home screen. I thought it was fixed in the 2.1 firmware update, but encountered it on a mate’s phone on Friday, so it’s obviously still out there.

So, how do you fix this annoying situation? I’ve seen people go to some pretty extreme lengths, but I figured out through some fiddling around the following fix…

Simply pick any one of your installed apps, hold your finger down on it and delete it when the icon goes all wobbly and offers you the delete option. It doesn’t matter which app – just delete one. Then go to the app store and reinstall that app. It doesn’t matter if it’s a paid app – you won’t be charged for it again.

And that’s it. You will now find that all your apps are back to normal and working just fine. Don’t ask me why or how this works. It just does. I’ve done it multiple times and on different phones.

Hope that helps someone out there in iPhone land.

• @vagredajr Thanks, man. That is better. But, the link from Newsgator still bumps you to the full site, just so you know. Thanks, though. #

• Friday! Should be a nice relaxing day, except for that list… :-( #
• Stupid tuaw.com website hangs my iPhone. Ironic for an Apple-focused
  website… #
• I love my iPhone but the battery life just sucks, even after 2.1
  firmware upgrade. Ridiculous. #
• @joshuasiphone and? Did turning push off make a big diff? #
• No, you can’t buy the book – you have to buy the library… http://ping.fm/4DGGZ #

couldn’t help but laugh out loud at this one… i spent a bit of time with lee mcfarland a couple of years back on a visit to radiant church in phoenix – cool place with a cool dude leading them…

and this is a way cool approach to challenge people about money… :-)

ok, now, where did i put that dew rag and my air guitar…?

• Quick test of ping. Didn’t seem to work yesterday. #

• After a flat-out couple of weeks, trying to have a slower one this week…
  Trying to… #

• Arrow is over. Kind of sad to say good bye to such a great group. But home
  now. Sitting in Melbourne airport waiting. #
• I have a whiney, complainy English lady sitting behind me. Ms.
  Negative has a comment about everything. Annoying. #
• Complainy lady has just discovered that her plane is delayed. Even
  more whining… Jeepers! #

I now know (thanks to my kind daughter, Amy), that I have a serious problem… (I suspect Baggas has a similar problem, judging from the number of Amazon boxes I spied in his surgery…)

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You know you’re a bookaholic when…

You walk into someone’s house and you have to check the impulse to ignore them and immediately begin scoping out their bookshelves. A corollary: You walk into a house with no visible reading material anywhere and you immediately get nervous.

You reject purses because their book-holding potential is low.

You choose the exercise bike (or elliptical) over other nominally more appealing forms of exercise, because it offers the opportunity to read.

You’re stressed out on vacation because there are too many people around (extended family) and they won’t leave you alone to read.

You feel naked if you don’t bring a book to some social event (baseball game, dinner with friends, church, jury duty).

You get irritated with your spouse or family member when they want to talk to you and you’re right in the middle of a particularly good part of the book you’re reading.

You feel the need to ask those who say they don’t like reading “Don’t you get bored?”

You’ve memorized your library card number from always typing it in online to request a book.

The librarian at the branch library you go to recognizes you and knows what books you like to read.

You take two books with you on a 5-day trip and return with thirteen.

You read books as you are walking to school and keep running into trees because you veer off the sidewalk.

You must attend a relative’s graduation and are asked to stake out seats at least an hour beforehand, and you do this only under the assumption that you can bring a book.

As a child, your parents tell you that bringing a book to the table is anti-social (unless they’re bookaholics too, in which case, they’re reading at table too.)

You never pass by a used bookstore without stopping in.

You get in trouble at school for reading too much.

You keep a book on the passenger seat for stoplights. (DUH)

You read books in movie theatres instead of watching the movie (or try to anyway).

You still had a nightlight at age 12 just so you could read. And your mother knew. And she didn’t say anything because she did it too.

You’re glad for the chance to eat out alone, so you can read

You start collecting books for your kids … at least a decade before you actually procreate.

You arrive everywhere early, just for the extra time to squeeze in some reading.

You sometimes pick up books just to smell them.

You’d really like to have a party where everyone invited brings his/her book. You’d all say hello, get something to drink or eat, and then read!

You can remember where all the bookshops ought to be in a town you last visited a decade ago

The guys from the moving company who are going to be helping you move from your apartment revise their estimate upward considerably after they get a look at your bookshelves and boxes of books. (Ouch!)

You seriously consider never moving again in your lifetime, because you remember so vividly the chore that it was to move all your books and then re-shelve them.

When renovating your house, you put built-in bookshelves or room for bookcases in almost every room (the only room spared was the bath, and that only because humidity isn’t good for the paper).

You wouldn’t think there was any reason to seek a cure, and even if you did, it would involve buying a book

Visitors often ask “Have you read all of those?”

You sneak off with your glass of wine, from a family gathering/dinner/barbeque or party being thrown at your own home to read 10 or 15 minutes in your bedroom while everyone probably assumes you’re in the bathroom.

Clerks in 3 huge bookstores seem to know you on sight…in and out of the store.

Also, people behind you in line at your biweekly trip to the bookstore (or library) look at your pile of books and say things like “I don’t think that I have even read that many books in my entire life!”

When you are preparing to go on holiday, you spend more time choosing books than packing your clothes [and books take up more suitcase space than your shoes and clothes].