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I’ve gone ahead and upgraded WordPress to version 1.5, which has lots of nice new features. I’m still working on the theme, so ignore the default blue header. No, my site won’t look like everyone else’s.

This summer, C++ gone wild. These are brilliant:

int Log_event::read_log_event(IO_CACHE* file, String* packet,
                              pthread_mutex_t* log_lock)

and

#ifndef MYSQL_CLIENT
Log_event* Log_event::read_log_event(IO_CACHE* file,
                                     pthread_mutex_t* log_lock,
                                     bool old_format)
#else
Log_event* Log_event::read_log_event(IO_CACHE* file, bool old_format)
#endif

and

Log_event* Log_event::read_log_event(const char* buf, int event_len,
                                     const char **error, bool old_format)

Save me.

I admit it, I’m kind of a map junkie. I love maps. So far, the best maps of California parks and such that I’ve found are Tom Harrison Maps. Really nice maps, with lat/long grids and UTM grids. Includes lots of 4WD trails and extra details, and printed on thin paper-like plastic that’s waterproof. Excellent.

I’ve got my Mono Lake pictures uploaded finally, and a few came out pretty decent. Adrienne also got hers up (before me, this time).

You can also read about our story… I bought a CB radio which will be installed in my Jeep as soon as I get it back from the shop.

Enjoy!

Well, we had an interesting weekend. We went out to Mono Lake, which was awesome. It would have been more awesome, but…

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I really hate it when companies mess up the formatting for 24-hour time. Adrienne’s phone does this too, but in a worse way.

There are two basic rules of formatting time:

1. In 24-hour time, hours less than 10 should be zero-prefixed, so 00, 01, 02, etc.
2. In 12-hour time, hours should never be zero-prefixed. One does not write 06 PM. It doesn’t make sense!

Mac OS X Tiger messed it up. It was right in Panther. Why, Apple?!

Update: No, the settings in [International -> Formats -> Times -> Customize... ] appear to have nothing to do with the time in the menu bar. Actually I have no idea what those are used for, but definitely not the menu bar time. Try again!