I'm ready to upgrade per my contract, and since I'm on the fourth iteration of this Droid 3, I'm ready to move off that train, too. Which makes me sad because basically the Droid 4 is the only remaining current smartphone that still has a tactile keyboard. So I guess I'm giving that up.

I'm looking at the HTC One and the Sony Xperia Z. Anyone have any experience with the latter? It's supposed to be moisture and dust-proof, and given that I had so many failures with the earlier phone, I am thinking maybe my environmental conditions are just rougher than a normal phone can handle.

Or I could head to the Apple ecosystem, I suppose.

Hmm, looks like the HTC One is a "maybe later" for Verizon and the Z is a "no." I dunno.

I bought the Galaxy S4 yesterday, and I'm still getting used to it, but holy shit, is it ever an upgrade from my old phone. I think a lot of it is the Android OS, but still, damn.

I may have posted something like this in the past, so if so, please forgive the repost. Beau is involved in an online football league on the PS3 and needs a league management online software alternative. Do any of you know of such a thing? He used to use League Daddy, but it is now defunct.

I fucked up my chrome bookmarks but good and because they were being synced across 3 computers and 2 devices, this was becoming a BIG problem. But I wanted to tell you all Bookmark Sentry is a fabulous extension for finding dup bookmarks and deleting empty folders. You can have it work regularly, but I prefer manual scan.

Okey dokey. I don't understand how something can be so fundamentally wrong with my network when I've replaced the router, the switch and the NAS (both a replacement of the same model and another one from a different vendor).

Time Machine is Greek to me. What controls whether or not a volume appears to be selected? For the new NAS I chose the Documents share, which was unmounted at the time, but now it can't see it. I mounted it and tried again--still can't see it. I've rebooted both the laptop and the NAS. Can't see it.

Clearly the OS X laptop can see it just fine--but Time Machine doesn't give a flying fuck. I would attribute some of this to not having DNS in my home network, but most people don't, right? They rely on Bonjour and the like, right?

Time Machine needs to see the drive mounted as an afp:// device where the Mac will happily mount a device through smb://, I've see that as one issue with Time Machine. On my network I've also had some Time Machine devices only be discoverable by their IP address, not by their friendly name. This is the case with my Drobo. Works great with a Time Machine partition but the first time I mount it I have to mount it as afp://192.168.x.x for it to be mounted. Once this is done the first time then Time Machine doesn't have a problem mounting. As such the Drobo is on a static IP.

Thanks, ND. I dismounted all the shares just in case and remounted the share in question with afp, and voila! Is there a way to force that on reboot? And I can't work out how it seems to lose that during normal operation.

Whoa. Two things are making me wanna jizz in my pants right now: Lynda.com and Sublime Text 2¹ (where they intersect on the Lynda.com course on Sublime Text 2 is predictably wondrous). I was not going to work out it could do all these things and I'm already saving time and wanting to take notes (hello, they call them help files--now you know it can do it, easier to look up).

So far on Lynda.com I've done:

• Responsive Design
• CSS Fundamentals (great for plugging in self-taught omissions)
• Up and Running with Sublime Text 2
• JavaScript Essential Training
• Interaction Design Fundamentals (kinda fluffy, but what were they gonna say in under ten hours?)

I don't know how it rates against competitors, but if there are better/cheaper sites, I want to sign up for them/get work to sign up for them too.

I haven't been able to find IIS training, sadly. We have an enterprise-sized hole there. Maybe I'm searching wrong. Will look again.

¹: THANK you, amych.

Those lynda.com courses do sound good.