OS X Lion – Transposed Scrolling

I upgraded to Lion on my Mac Mini. I’m slowly adjusting to the numerous changes the new OS brings, but there was one that I absolutely could not live with. In OS X Lion, the scroll direction is transposed! I suppose if I was using an Apple Magic Trackpad it would make sense, but with my Logitech V270 mouse, it doesn’t. Scrolling up is down, and down is up. Thankfully, a trick from Tech-Recipies fixes this.

Open a Terminal window and enter the following command:

defaults write ~/Library/Preferences/.GlobalPreferences com.apple.swipescrolldirection -bool false

Log out and log back in…and voilĂ ! Scrolling is “normal” again.

UPDATE: After installing Lion on a laptop, I discovered that this is an option under the trackpad settings. Apple, why don’t you offer this setting for computers without a trackpad?!

WordPress Cleanup & Update

It’s been a while since I’ve done some maintenance on my server. After doing a routine WordPress upgrade, I discovered that I had 600+ spam user registrations! So, after hand cleaning these up, I researched registration spam prevention plugins and decided to try SABRE – Simple Anti Bot Registration Engine. Hopefully this will help slow that down!

Now off to do OS updates…

Curse You AT&T Wireless!

Ok, so it’s my fault, but I’m going to rant anyway. I went over my iPhone data plan. I’m over by 4 MB. The kicker is this: my next billing cycle starts on the 28th. That’s less than TWO DAYS away.

I called AT&T to see if they could cut me a break. I mean…come on! Nope. It’s either pay the full $15 for another 200 MB (for the next TWO DAYS) or upgrade for $25 to 2GB.

I know, I agreed to this when I signed up…but whatever happened to being nice to your long term customers? I’ve been an AT&T Wireless customer since 2004. I could understand if I went over and it was in the middle of the billing cycle or even if it was as close as a week…but it’s only TWO DAYS!

I know that 200MB/month isn’t all that much, but for me it’s usually more than enough. It’s rare that I’ll come close to using 200MB of cell data since I connect to WiFi at home, at work, and any other place that offers it for free. I wonder if it didn’t connect to my AP at home or at work one day…hmm.

Anywho, thanks AT&T. If it weren’t for your dang “Rollover Minutes”….

*sigh*

(Network performance wise I have no complaints.)

2011 Math Magic

Received this tidbit of information from a family friend (a forward, of course).

This year we will experience four unusual dates:

  • 1/1/11
  • 1/11/11
  • 11/1/11
  • 11/11/11

Not that exciting, but pretty cool nonetheless. However, check this out. If you take the last two digits of your birth year and add your age, post 2011 birthday, you should get 111. For instance:

  • I was born in 1986 and in July I will be 25. 86 + 25 = 111.
  • My brother was born in 1991 and in June he will be 20. 91 + 20 = 111
  • Brianna was born in 1987 and turned 24 in February. 87 + 24 = 111

Isn’t that kinda neat? Unfortunately, this doesn’t work for people born after 1999.

This e-mail also had a fact that is false:

“This year October will have 5 Sundays, 5 Mondays and 5 Saturdays.This happens only every 823 years…”

This is not true. October will have 5 Saturdays, Sundays, and Mondays in 2016, then in 2022, and then in 2033. I’m sure it continues to happen, but the system calendar in OS X stops at 2037 :D .

And, of course, the e-mail goes completely downhill from here:

“These particular years are known as ‘Moneybags’… The proverb goes that if you send this to eight good friends (already today translated from the Brazilian version..!) money will appear in the next four days as is explained in Chinese Feng-Shui…Those who don’t continue the chain won’t receive.. It’s a mystery, but it’s worth a try..”

Yeah…right… :roll:

Literally “Pissed” Off

A forward from my mom. I definitely laughed. Though, it’s not entirely clear if this is true or not. In any case, it’s funny.

I can’t stop laughing…

This is probably the funniest date story ever, first date or not!

We have all had bad dates but this takes the cake.

Jay Leno went into the audience to find the most embarrassing first date that a woman ever had. The winner described her worst first date experience.

There was absolutely no question as to why her tale took the prize!

She said it was midwinter…Snowing and quite cold… And the guy had taken her skiing in the mountains outside Salt Lake City, Utah. It was a day trip (no overnight). They were strangers, after all, and had never met before.

The outing was fun but relatively uneventful until they were headed home late that afternoon.

They were driving back down the mountain, when she gradually began to realize that she should not have had that extra latte. They were about an hour away from anywhere with a rest room and in the middle of nowhere! Her companion suggested she try to hold it, which she did for awhile.

Unfortunately, because of the heavy snow and slow going, there came a point where she told him that he had better stop and let her go beside the road, or it would be the front seat of his car.

They stopped and she quickly crawled out beside the car, yanked her pants down and started. In the deep snow she didn’t have good footing, so she let her butt rest against the rear fender to steady herself.

Her companion stood on the side of the car watching for traffic and indeed was a real gentleman and refrained from peeking. All she
could think about was the relief she felt despite
the rather embarrassing nature of the situation.

Upon finishing however, she soon became aware of another sensation. As she bent to pull up her pants, the young lady discovered her buttocks were firmly glued against the car’s fender.

Thoughts of tongues frozen to poles immediately came to mind as she attempted to disengage her flesh from the icy metal. It was quickly apparent that she had a brand new problem, due to the extreme cold.

Horrified by her plight and yet aware of the humor of the moment, she answered her date’s concerns about’ what is taking so long’ with a reply that indeed, she was ‘freezing her butt off’ and in need of some assistance!

He came around the car as she tried to cover herself with her sweater and then, as she looked imploringly into his eyes, he burst out laughing. She too, got the giggles and when they finally managed to compose themselves, they assessed her dilemma.

Obviously, as hysterical as the situation was, they also were faced with a real problem. Both agreed it would take something hot to free her chilly cheeks from the grip of the icy metal! Thinking about what had gotten her into the predicament in the first place, both quickly realized that there was only one way to get her free.

So, as she looked the other way, her first-time date proceeded to unzip his pants and pee
her butt off the fender.

As the audience screamed in laughter, she took the Tonight Show prize hands down.

Or perhaps that should be ‘pants down.’ And you thought your first date was embarrassing.

Jay Leno’s comment…’This gives a whole new meaning to being pissed off.’

Oh, and how did the first date turn out? He became her husband and was sitting next to
her on the Leno show.

If you laughed at this, pass it on. If you didn’t laugh, you need a better sense of humor.