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How to fix “This Apple ID is only valid for use in the U.S. Store”
While googling a Japanese musician recently, I followed an Apple Music link, which opened the Music app on my iPad with this message: This dialog makes the Change Store option seem pretty innocent, and you might assume (like I did) that changing back to your home store would be easy and obvious. But I found…
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KickLogstash.sh: 7 Lines to Restart Logstash
It might well be my naive, beginner’s implementation of it, but it sure seems like Logstash is pretty easy to confuse. Elasticsearch temporarily unavailable? Hang. Some weird formatting sneaks in? Hang. Some as-yet-undiscovered circumstance that causes java to eat all your memory? Hang. And each time it hangs, Logstash becomes unresponsive, never recovering. So for…
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Coping With EXIF Rotation Problems
At Knowledge Architecture, we may not operate at the scale of Facebook or Flickr, but Synthesis sees enough image uploads that we’ve run into some pretty strange image rotation problems now and then. I’ve spend a lot of time with the issue, and while I’m not naive enough to declare victory over something as devilish…
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What I Like Is Looking At My Phone
The other day I was thinking about the dawning of The Age of Smart Watches, and trying to answer a skeptical friend’s “why?” Why do people think they want such a thing? Â Or, at least, why do companies think that people want such a thing? I ran through the usual suspects: the wrist is a…
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Traveling With a Baby in Italy
Several months ago, my wife and I completed a two-week trip to Italy with our then seven month-old son, Felix, and for the most part, it was great! Before we left, though, we looked around for guidance and didn’t find much that lined up with our idea of a vacation: a “last” trip before Felix could walk (let…
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