Train home. Changed both tires on my road bike after noticing that the belt fibers were peeking through the rear wheel tread. Laurie called to suggest a rendezvous at Town & Country so we caught the end of a Detroit-style blues band, and then pedaled home. Tabbouleh, salad, brussels sprouts for dinner. I started the laundry (rags left by the maids) and we walked downtown for milk... When we got back, I threw the rags in the dryer and sat down to clear up a few loose ends. First, the New York Times crossword puzzle in 6:19...
The MythTV box is down again. It's recording but not playing back. It looks like Catalyst Control Center v.12.6 disagreed with Ubuntu 12.04 and whatever MythTV rev is installed, and it uninstalled itself. So no sound (again) and images don't get scaled. The answer seems to be to backup the database, upgrade to Ubuntu 13.10, install Catalyst 13.6, and maybe a MythTV upgrade too. I don't know when that will happen. I just tried running the Catalyst installer and it failed (predictably), complaining that a proprietary AMD driver was already installed. I really ought to set up regular backups, and fix the infrared remote (which Really Needs an Esc function), too.
I'm investigating the Magento e-commerce system for my brother, who needs some customization on his gift basket site. I wrote some code to explore the SOAP APIs and to load arbitrary customer data files. But the next step for me was to set up my own Magento test system... This took about ten minutes - download the file, unzip it, edit the Apache extra/httpd-vhosts.conf file, edit drivers/etc/hosts, start MySQL, start Apache, go to the setup URL - except the initial startup transaction (run through Apache) requires 90 seconds - so it crashed because of the PHP timer. I edited php.ini, dropped and recreated the database, and it all looks good. More on that tomorrow.
And then there are the telephones. Porting my T-Mobile number to Google Voice meant that I no longer had a separate voicemail-only Google Voice number. So to use GV with my home SIP phones, I had to reconfigure them with my VOIP provider. But for some reason, the changes just didn't take. I couldn't get to the new voicemail system to set the outgoing message. It only took me about ten minutes to figure out that long ago - maybe before I discovered the rich feature set of the VOIP system - I had programmed the the Cisco/Linksys/Sipura SPA2102 analog telephone adapter (ATA) box to forward to my GV number on ring-no-answer. That was still active... Clearing those fields got me right to the voicemail system and I recorded a nice outgoing message.
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