1. Obtain Magic Trackpad for use with your MacBook.
2. Use Magic Trackpad for a couple of weeks.
3. Revert to previous optical mouse once general sluggishness and RSA-inducing motions promoted by Magic Trackpad use become too great to bear.
4. Place Magic Trackpad in desk drawer.
5. Forget to un-pair MacBook and Magic Trackpad over BlueTooth.
6. Forget Magic Trackpad in desk drawer for months.
7. [Months elapse]
8. Unthinkingly place heavy object in desk drawer on top of Magic Trackpad.
9. Allow object to apply pressure sufficient to leave Magic Trackpad in “clicked-down” position.
10. Note that mouse clicks no longer actually work.
11. Spend 20 minutes closing applications using only keyboard shortcuts in vain attempt to figure out which program is currently stealing mouse focus.
12. Reboot system, hoping it will help.
13. Remember presence of Magic Trackpad in desk drawer while computer is rebooting.
14. Remove heavy object.
15. Facepalm so hard that fellow cubefarm denizens can hear it.
16. Resume clicking.

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Video may well be forthcoming, but for those looking for an earlier crack at the presentation I made, here’s the slide deck from my talk on WordPress plugins.

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Do you back your stuff up? I mean, not just on-site (external hard drive, DVDs, etc.), but do you do off-site backups too?

I do, and have done so, by means of Backblaze for about the past 18 months. The experience has always been a painless one and for a mere $5 a month or so, I can be confident that all my pictures of my kids are safe and sound.

The company itself has taken to releasing some cool behind-the-scenes videos, the first of which is here (the second is after the jump):

My message to you: You really should be backing up your computers, regardless of your provider. It could be Backblaze, or Mozy, or even JungleDisk (I’ve not yet tried Bitcasa; to be frank, the architecture kind of scares me). Just back it up, now, before something goes wrong and you lose something you’d really have preferred not to.

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Great track, but it’s mainly an opportunity to test out the new Spotify Play button.

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It’s almost exactly what a “Burn Notice” bumper track should be, and I mean that in the best sense possible.

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• Issues Fixed
  • Top-level drop-downs should now be styled correctly and consistently
  • Custom menus added as widgets should no longer get styling from top-level menus

So go ahead and grab it from the official repo or simply check under your Dashboard -> Updates.

Happy downloading!

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Absolutely hysterical.

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If forced to cannibalism…I’m thinking: http://t.co/U6VVc6kO

Wednesday, March 21, 2012 12:24 pm via webReplyRetweetFavorite

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Alton Brown

@altonbrown Long-pork Wellington?

Wednesday, March 21, 2012 12:25 pm via Twitter for MacReplyRetweetFavorite

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Doug Stewart

@zamoose nice. I’d forgotten that human has been of been referred to as “long-pork” by those that have…experienced said meat product.

Wednesday, March 21, 2012 12:27 pm via webReplyRetweetFavorite

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Alton Brown

I can die happier now.

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While it would be tempting to call this a simple bugfix, there are several things to note. From the release notes:

• Features Added
  • Greater CSS flexibility (selectors aren’t as specific, allowing for easier child theming)
• Issues Fixed
  • BuddyPress “Load More” link in Activity streams actually, you know, loads more.
  • bbPress support updated for all the proper bbP hooks, so certain plugins that weren’t working before now POOF magically work again.
  • Default search results if nothing is found were… blank. D’oh! Fixed.
  • BuddyPress Groups widget AJAX now works to load groups on the fly.

So, download away and, as always, let me know if you run into any issues!

PS: Please, if you like my theme and/or find it useful, go to the official page and give it a rating — there’s only a single, solitary rating thus far. I’d be much obliged.

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Da Chip Volume 2. Yes, have some.

EDIT: Whoops, track #5 (“Burnin’”) has a decidedly NSFW word towards the end. Thought the whole thing was clean. Apologies. Keep this one in the headphones, I guess.

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