Jeremey's Weblog

Snow Leopard!

I upgraded to Snow Leopard yesterday, and it is fantastic. Noticeably snappier in every respect. The Exchange 2007 support is great, it took a while to initially sync all my mail (mass quantities), but after that it has been singing along. Address Book integration is nicely done, it doesn't try to merge, it keeps your accounts separated, but provides an All Contacts view. GAL search works too (and in mail compose).

Snow Leopard comes with 64-bit Java 6 out of the box, woohoo! I loathe Java, but as I'm working with it now, I am very grateful for the massive speed upgrade, and the JDK 6 support.

I installed MySQL 5.1 x86_64 and it runs perfectly. The PrefPane is 32-bit and requires an (automatic) relaunch of System Preferences, but that's no big deal, it is used infrequently.

*Everything* is faster. So far the only casualty is Checkpoint SecureClient, which I knew in advance.

Good stuff, Apple!

OH!! I also got back almost 15G of HD space! LOVE.

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Spoon Bread

I have said before that corn bread may be the best food on Earth, but I may amend that to include a slight preference for spoon bread. My grandmother recently died and the family compiled some of her recipes. Spoon bread was one of my favorite things she made as a kid (2nd only to banana pudding, I think).

If you're aren't familiar with spoon bread, it's a variation on simple corn bread, that results in a mushy, slightly sweet, buttery "bread" that you eat with a spoon. TO. DIE. FOR. Literally, maybe, because it absolutely must be smothered in butter to serve.

Here 'tis:

• 1 cup water
• 1/2 cup cornmeal
• 1/4 tsp salt
• dash of sugar
• 1 cup buttermilk
• 3/4 tsp baking soda
• 1 Tbsp butter
• 1 egg

Mix water, cornmeal, salt, sugar in saucepan over medium heat. Stir until thick. Remove from heat.

Add butter, stir as it melts. Stir in soda. Beat the egg into the buttermilk and stir into cornmeal mixture.

Pour into a greased casserole. Bake at 350 F for 30 minutes, or until well set and nicely browned on top. (I needed 35+ minutes)

Serve hot (immediately), with butter.

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It's The FAIL WHALE... What Do I DO??

This morning I woke up to find Twitter had ceased to exist. Off the map. Gone. How will I tweet about Twitter being down?! Then I went to Facebook to post about Twitter being down... but Facebook was down too!! It's the Twitpocalypse!! What do I DO??

Then I remember I had a blog. Haha, we'll bring out the big guns. Take that, o thou whale of fail.

So now I have blogged about being unable to update Facebook about being unable to tweet on Twitter. Social media, what hast thou done to us??

:)

UPDATE: But I can't post a link to this on Twitter... sigh.

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