Saturday, February 2, 2013
I realized last night that 3G data hasn't been working on my iPhone 3GS probably since I updated to iOS 6.1. To resolve this, I flailed with several possible solutions, but the thing that worked was following the Howard Forums wiki instructions for Straight Talk iPhone again from scratch. Tested 3G data and MMS, now both work again. Tedious, but it works. It took me an hour because I didn't know what I was doing, but I have documented the procedure in anticipation of needing the info again later. The Howard Forums wiki page is great in that there's nothing else better, but in my opinion it's pretty awful in terms of technical writing. Checked on CrashPlan for Patrick's iMac, made sure it was running again since his latest backup was over 2 days ago. Tried performing some maintenance as well to make his iMac faster. Added a felt pad under one leg of the Picasso chair to resolve a wobble due to (Patrick says) an uneven floor—successful. Brunch: cinnamon-buttermilk gluten-free pancakes with butter and maple syrup, cappuccino beverage, 8 ounces of orange juice. Nap. Dinner at home with Patrick: spinach dal and jasmine rice from packets for him. For me, salad with pomegranate vinaigrette and dried apricot; carrot-almond soup. This evening all my Bluehost websites and email accounts became inaccessible. When I visited the Bluehost server status page, I received an error: "Unable to connect to dbh_ro db: DBI connect('database=cp_billing;host=10.0.82.6;port=3306:mysql_compression=1','rd',...) failed: Can't connect to MySQL server on '10.0.82.6' (110) at /var/www/lib/DBH.pm line 65 at /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/ModPerl/RegistryCooker.pm line 204". I made banana bread with pecans from a Tyler Florence recipe found on Food Network. Late snack: three small slices of freshly baked banana bread (miniloaf).