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In 2009 I had resolutions and also in 2008 and 2006.  I’m going to combine and review them and note what I’ve completed and what will get rolled over and added to this year.  These aren’t really resolutions more like goals…

• Read more (Roll over: Too many good books, motivational wise to not do this enough)
• Less Computer (Roll over: Just good practice, I feel like I’m always online looking at something)
• Learn to use my new digital camera (My Christmas present to myself)
• Hang out with friends (Roll over: I have amazing fucking friends!)
• Meditate more (This is just good to do)
• Continue to eat lots more fruit and vegetables (Again good habits)
• Build core strength (Will try Yoga / Pilates, and The 4 Hour Body by Tim Ferris)
• Become even more minimalistic with stuff. (I’m trying hard to purge of things I don’t need or want).
• Walk and spend more time with Hannah Banana (She’s very fun to hang out with)
• Take a random trip somewhere exotic (Preferably somewhere with a beach)
• Do something from my bucket list
• Pay off Debt (It’s time to get back on track)
• Buy a Boat (I think it’s time)
• Go hiking, back packing, camping..with the dogs. (Did this over July 4th weekend finally! Will try to do it again this year)
  
• Go horseback riding (Did this in Australia two years ago, would love to do this again on a beach somewhere)
  
• Go indoor rock climbing (Roll over: This is just good exercise, but it’s so damn far from my house!)
• Go watch and bet on Jai Alai (I won $20 bucks!)
  
• Go to the circus (I went at the beginning of last year, good to see the animals, now I want to ride an elephant in South Africa)
  
• Go to the fair (Roll over: Hopefully this year that will happen)
• Go indoor or regular sky diving. (Roll over: Just stupid expensive, I should have bought the groupon that had this)
• Go on an Airboat ride. (Roll over: This summer, hope to go in as a group)
• Get Salsa Lessons (Completed this in Australia and will try to continue doing this again)
  
• Have a Garage Sale (Did this when I returned from Australia)
  
• Learn CPR (I am certified till sometime next year when I will renew it)
  
• Date Night, Helicopter ride over Orlando (Roll over: Just a neat idea)
• Date Night, Actually fly a small plane over Orlando (Roll over: Another neat idea)
• Volunteer with Habitat for Humanity (Did this with some disappointment, will try another volunteering service)
• Blog more

You know me I’ll review these in a few months to check in……Here’s to a new year friends….Cheers!

So I’ve had to do this a few times because my Apple TV keeps ‘acting’ up. It kept freezing during tv shows I downloaded and converted via iSquint. The ATv would then restart and not recognize what was on the hard drive (Format not recognized by Apple TV). It was pissing Mandy and I off enough for me to try to do another ‘from scratch’ restore. I’ve followed these directions before referencing Smallnum’s directions and AwkwardTV’s Wiki. I’m saving them here, because it’s more concise and may help others. These are directions for a mac OS X Leopard 10.5.6 . Download the latest Apple TV image from here and find the full url of the dmg file to download. It doesn’t matter what size the drive is you want to do this with. Assuming, /dev/disk2 is your disk. All these commands are done from terminal unless otherwise noted.

1. Connect your hard drive to a Macbook using an IDE-to-usb/firewire dongle.

2. Clear any partition information and create a new partition table (you can also just format the drive with DiskUtil, you also need to run ‘diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk2’ after each gpt command) :

gpt destroy /dev/disk2
diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk2
gpt create /dev/disk2

3. Create the partitions using ‘gpt’. There should be four partitions: EFI (200m), Recovery (400m), OSBoot (900m), Media (rest of the disk). The EFI and Recovery partitions can be completely blank, but those sizes must be exact.

gpt add -b 40 -i 1 -s 409600 -t efi /dev/disk2
diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk2
gpt add -b 409640 -i 2 -s 819200 -t 5265636F-7665-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC /dev/disk2
diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk2
gpt add -b 1228840 -i 3 -s 1843200 -t hfs /dev/disk2
diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk2
gpt show /dev/disk2  {*Review the next partition size and enter in the large value*}
gpt add -b 3072040 -i 4 -s 231369575 -t hfs /dev/disk2
diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk2

4. Remounts drives with file permissions and names, this combines two things in one.

diskutil eraseVolume "Journaled HFS+" OSBoot /dev/disk2s3
diskutil eraseVolume "Journaled HFS+" Media /dev/disk2s4
diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk2

5. Restore the image. Use disk utility, click on OSBoot, and restore the image you downloaded.

Note: I did not create and restore the recovery parition I have done this once and it was a pain. If I ever do it again I’ll document it here.

I finally figured out that the Delicious Firefox Extension that I use almost daily breaks flash on some sites, specifically the WordPress Stats from the WordPress Dashboard.  Not sure what’s going on but it took me a while to figure it out.  What would happen is if I wasn’t scrolled down waatching the stats load they would load off the frame of that window.  Really annoying!!  Need to submit this to WordPress or Delicious but I wanted to write about it because I couldn’t find anyone else having the same issue, but I’m sure others are.  I believe this is only happening on the Mac.
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