While investigating a Twitter widget, I attempted to self-upgrade my old and incomplete WordPress theme and inadvertently hosed the entire thing so I’m back to the good old default look. Yech! I’ll try to have the new look running ASAP… stay tuned!
IRC on the iPhone! (kinda)
Detailed instructions, with images, on how to set up your iPhone to log in to the Colloquy IRC client so you can chat directly from the phone itself! Yes, you’ll have to use a running Mac to proxy the connection, but it’s a start. Hopefully soon there will be a linux-type daemon that can accomplish the same thing. Stay tuned for my own personal experience with the iPhone!
Postfix Goofiness and Temporary Workaround
Many distributions of Mac OS X come with Postfix installed, which make for great mail servers. However, Apple added a new twist to its UNIX backend with the addition of its own pseudo-replacement for cron, called launchd. This causes a minor, yet fatal error with Postfix on Tiger. If you use the preinstalled Postfix or roll your own, you may encounter this in your mail.log: fatal: open lock file pid/master.pid: unable to set exclusive lock: Resource temporarily unavailable. To correct this you need to mod a system setting file provided by Apple, and the solution has been posted on chxo.com. I must say, killing launchd via HUP doesn't seem to break my system but your experience may be different than mine, so please exercise caution and restart the box if you're unsure of what you're doing.