My hard drive on my macbook failed a few weeks ago. I’ve resurrected the original hard drive (not the failed one) till I get around to buying a new one. Luckily I had backed up my photos the night before (yay for rsync!), so I didn’t lose anything really important.
I’m seriously considering getting a Time Capsule, since I need a wireless router anyway, and automatic wireless backups would be awesome.
I ran into the following dialog when trying to “Empty Trash” in OS X (10.4)
The problem was caused by a couple of hundred locked files on the USB drive, which OS X happily sent to the trash but would not let me delete. Normally you can just restore a file from the Trash to a normal file, and then alter the properties (File -> Get Info in the Finder). But since the files were on a USB drive I couldn’t see them in the Trash.
So the files were effectively stuck, and I couldn’t empty the Trash without hitting “continue” a couple of hundred times (and the locked files would still be there, so that would happen every time).
After a quick google, and a look at man chflags, I found a solution. Open terminal, and run the following commands (replacing DRIVE with the volume name of your USB drive)
NOTE: run the following command at your own risk!
find /Volumes/DRIVE/.Trashes -type f -exec chflags nouchg {} \; -print
After than, “Empty Trash” worked as normal.
Taken at the same location as my rickshaws photo, and also available in my redbubble portfolio.
This photo was taken at Cheong Fatt Tze Mansion in Penang on my (not-so-recent) trip to Singapore/Malaysia/Thailand in November last year. The blue color was created using the crushed petals of a local flower, in an attempt to match the original 19th century color. The mansion was recently restored, and is now a functioning guest house and is open for tours. It was also used as a setting for the movie ‘Indochine’.
PS: I know the photo is small. I will eventually get a photo gallery set up with a larger version (and some more photos!).
Update:A full-size version of this photo is now available for purchase!
Last year Bron and I went to see the Picasso exhibition at the NGV International. I didn’t know much about Picasso, but the exhibition was pretty interesting. A large part of it was actually about Picasso’s muse Dora Maar. They even had ipods with an audio guide available for hire.
Here’s a couple of pictures I took that night.
Update:Full-size versions of these photos are now available for purchase!
A few weeks ago I saw this boxer sitting in the sun on the front porch of a house.
She was quite content to ignore me as I stopped, took the photo, and went on my way laughing 
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