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My MacBook Pro battery life is shrinking

Posted At : January 30, 2009 9:10 PM | Posted By : Wil Genovese
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This is perplexing me.  My MBP is less than 1 year old (11 months) and it just started having really a short battery life this week.  This happened suddenly.  Last week I could go several hours.  This week the batteries life is sucked out of it in about an hour or less.

I have a 15.4" MBP that I bought new last February.  I use it every day for programming and internet.  The battery has 121 cycles on it which isn't that many according to Apple.  I do have the Apple Care Package and I may be talking to them before the 1 year mark.  

I normally run plugged it and only use the battery on rare occasions.  I may run on battery a few times a month.  This week, while in a meeting at work, I watched the battery die in about an hour.  This has never happened before.

I just started a life test battery drain down.  I'm timing in 5 minute intervals the battery life remaining while it sits idle running on battery.

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New blog skin

Posted At : January 28, 2009 3:06 AM | Posted By : Wil Genovese
Related Categories: Random Tools,this.Blog

I got tired of having an ugly blog and I am absolutely NOT a designer.  So I dug around looking for free blog skins and finally found the one I liked best.  Clean, simple and easy to implement with blogCFC.  It's called Nautica 2.2 Liquid [here].  The photo I used in the header is one my wife shot of the new I-35W bridge that spans the Mississippi river in Minneapolis, MN and replaces the one that collapsed (almost on me) back in 2007.  I'll have to have her get me high-res version of that photo so I can rid of the grain.  You can see the full size bridge photos here.

I still have design elements I want to try, but I'll have to do them another day.  It's 3:15am and my alarm goes off at 6am. Yuk.

Well, at least I won't have the ugliest blog on the net any more.  Now I can get back to ColdFusion coding and not be embarrassed by my ugly blog.

Cheers,

Update: Note to self, never write a blog post at 3 in the morning.  Spelling errors!

Update: 3 Days later I looked at my blog with IE.  I HATE IE!  Back to the CSS to compensate for the weakest link.

Update: I finally have it 'good enough' in IE. 

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Who What and Why

Posted At : May 15, 2008 11:16 PM | Posted By : Wil Genovese
Related Categories: this.Blog,ColdFusion

Who What and Why

Every blog needs a first post. Well here's mine. I hope to answer those questions and a few others to help you understand what or why I am blogging. And it will help me understand why I am doing this. I hope.

Who?
My name is Wil Genovese and I've been using CFML since 1998. There, now I've confessed. I started with the web in 1996, but I started programming in 1984 and had been BBSing since 1992. I started using Homesite 1.5 in 1996 and I actually paid Nick Bradbury $25 dollars for version 2.0. I became active on Nick's Homesite support forums and continued on the forums when Allaire bought Homesite and hired Nick. I was invited to be member of Team Allaire in 1997 or 1998. I can't remember which. Around summer of 1998 I started learning ColdFusion 3.0. By December of 1998 I had my first ColdFusion job and I've been coding CFML ever since. Almost, there was a year of PHP when a former employer switched over. I am now a Sr. Web Application Programmer. My side skills include Linux systems administration and DB skills relating to PostgreSQL server. I run my own servers from my home which is where this blog and the rest of my websites, email, DB, file, DNS and svn servers are located. Why do I do that? Because it's fun! What else do you expect from geek.

So, what your seeing is BlogCFC running on Bluedragon JX on Centos 4.6 BlueDragon JX 64Bit on 64Bit Centos 5.2 connected to PostgreSQL 8.3 on 64 bit Centos 5.2.  It took very little work to modify BlogCFC to run against PostgreSQL.  I have the sql script for PostgreSQL and the modified blog.cfc if anyone wants.

My wife and I are also the owners of Christian Music Entertainment Group, LLC and I code and host Christianmp3.com. We intend to provide a retail store for independent Christian artists. Unfortunately my day job keeps me too busy to do much work on the Christianmp3 websites.

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