My biggest problem with the latest MacBooks is Apples insistence on selling them without user serviceable batteries. To me that means that the battery life is what it is and you can’t do anything about it. I own an older MacBook Pro with the replaceable battery. And I have a pair of batteries for the machine. What a pain in the neck it is to have two batteries. The webs advice on battery storage is to keep Li-Ion batteries in a cool place at about 40% charge. Also, under no circumstances let your battery discharge to nothing. I have two batteries because I don’t want to be stuck on a trans-continental flight with no laptop but more and more airplanes have empower and a trans-continental length flight is only 5 hours of laptop time when you add it up. The new Apples advertise a 7 hour battery life. Mine does slightly better than 5 on each battery depending on the workload. So in the past few trips I’ve never gone on to the second battery. Given all these things the Empower to Magsafe charger is probably a better investment than a second battery.
Occasionally you do find Pearls on the web.
Shout outs to Rami Ben-Ami for his templates at lady-beetle.com. The two people out there who have read this blog before know that I’ve been struggling with building Templates for Joomla for a bit of time. My biggest struggle hasn’t been html, it has been finding a template which has a high code quality. To me that means: Coded using CSS rather than tables. Coded using enough care to get the indention right.
Gmail from Exodus
It looks like the Exodus XMPP/Jabber client has a new home here. I found out because a friend had signed up of a gmail account and wanted to use a real chat client. As an old Jabber user I told her about Exodus.
You are in a maze of teeny tiny passages, all alike…
Mod_python and Django have me going around in circles because I don’t want to take my old brain with learning either how to build apache with the worker MPM or mod_wsgi.