BraveNewClimate has a reassuring account of what happened at the nuclear power reactors in Fukushima and the potential worst-case scenarios will be nowhere near the scale of the Chernobyl disaster.
The comments provide interesting discussion and add further details.
Some further reassurance by Harvard Kennedy School Associate Professor Matthew Bunn that while the situation is serious, there is no possibility of a runaway chain reaction.
Fukushima nuclear power plant after the explosions in reactor number 1 and number 3. Reactor 1 is at the bottom left, reactor 4 is top right. Smoke is rising from reactor number 3.
Check out Jeff Shroeder and his trip around the world for free. Skip to 01:45 to see who he meets at Hachiko in Shibuya. Get live updates of Jeffs travels at the site or on twitter.
My Mac Air hard disk was getting full so I loaded up Disk Inventory X to see what was taking so much space and was surprised to find over 20GB of files in a trash folder I wasn’t aware of.
I use Windows Live Sync for syncing files between my Mac Air and my PC, but apparently when you delete files from the shared folders, the Mac version of Live Sync moves them to its own trash folder instead of the system trash folder, and hundreds of files can pile up over time unless you remember to delete them periodically.
Michael Vogel solves this by linking the Live Sync trash folder to the system trash folder. Here’s how.
1. Use Finder or Terminal to delete the Live Sync trash folder.
Macintosh HD > Users > username > Library > Application Support > Windows Live Sync > trash
2. Use Terminal to add a symlink from Live Sync trash to the System Trash
ln -s ~/.Trash ~/Library/Application\ Support/Windows\ Live\ Sync/trash
Stattraq is one of the better statistics plugins for WordPress. Unfortunately due to the changes made in recent versions of WordPress, the installation link in the plugin description gives a permissions error.
You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page.
This happens because the stattraq-install.php is not included in the $_registered_pages[] array, so user_can_access_admin_page() in wp-admin\includes\plugin.php doesnt allow access to the install code.
To fix it, you can either add the stattraq-install.php hook to $_registered_pages[], or simply add another menu item. To add another menu, edit the stattraq_menu() function near line 170 in wp-content\qp-stattraq\stattraq.php
function stattraq_menu()
{
if (function_exists(‘add_menu_page’))
{
// add_menu_page(‘Stat Traq’, ‘Stat Traq’, 8, ‘../wp-stattraq/’);
// add_menu_page(‘Stat Traq’, ‘Stat Traq’, 8, ‘../wp-content/plugins/wp-stattraq/index.php’);
add_menu_page(‘Stat Traq’, ‘Stat Traq’, 8, ‘wp-stattraq/index.php’);
add_menu_page(‘Stat Traq’, ‘Install Stat Traq’, 8, ‘wp-stattraq/stattraq-install.php’);
add_action(‘admin_head’, ‘stattraq_admin_css’);
}
}
To move all the preferences, files, library settings, album artwork, everything back into iTunes on Windows, consists of three steps:
- Copy C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\Application Data\Apple Computer\iTunes\ into the identical folder in new install
- Copy C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\Local Settings\Application Data\Apple Computer\iTunes\ into the identical folder in new install
- Copy entire contents of old C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\My Documents\My Music\iTunes\ into the identical folder in new install
And that should be it.
Anyone know how to add the artwork back to the albums?
Google’s Liquid Galaxy is a series of eight LCD panels surrounding the viewer in a wraparound view of Google Earth. You can get really motion sick flying around the globe but it is very cool.
OmmWriter for the Mac is a wonderfully simple text editor designed to help you relax and focus on your writing without distractions. 
Aptana 2.0 no longer ships with Aptana PHP or the Database tools included by default. You need to install the PDT plugin for PHP development, and the Quantum Database plugin for managing database connections.
To install the Quantum Database Utilities, in Aptana open Help > Install Additional Features. Under Featured Plugins, select Quantum Database Utility and click Install. Select the features and click Next. Click Next again, accept the license agreement and click Finish. When installation finishes, restart Aptana.
Use the same process to install the PHP Development Tools (PDT) and the PHP Debugger Binaries. I also installed jQuery Support.
To add a database bookmark, open the Quantum DB Perspective. If you don’t have the icon for this perspective already, click Window > Open Perspective > Other and select Quantum DB. Right-click on the (Internal) Derby bookmark or click the Add Bookmark icon in the Database Bookmarks pane.
If you haven’t already, add the MySQL JDBC driver by clicking Add Driver. Click Add External Jar and locate your jdbc jar file, you shoud have saved it in /Library/Java/Extensions. Click Browse and select com.mysql.jdbc.Driver then click Ok then Finish.
Back at the New Bookmark dialog, select the MySQL JDBC driver and click Next. Enter your MySQL username and password. Leave the hostname and port as is, then enter the name of the database. When you click Finish you should be able to browse your database tables.
The functionality of Quantum DB Utilities is disappointing. Apart from browsing tables and manually enter SQL statements, the only editing functionality is table data. phpMyAdmin is more useful.
