Meteor Video
YouTube — Meteor Blaze… awesome!!! — it’s really beautiful, you gotta see it.
Airport Express DHCP Problems
So, I was struggling with my Airport Express, trying to get the WAN (Ethernet) connection to renew its DHCP lease. When you go into the Airport Management tool, there’s a way to indicate (under the Internet tab) that you’ll be configuring by way of DHCP, but there’s no “renew DHCP Lease” button.
What to do? I spent over an hour poking and fiddling, watching that interminable light blink yellow, no love.
Then I realized the issue. The Upstream router (in this case, my cable router, but DSL routers fall into the same category) was associating a different MAC address to the single IP address I have (since I had plugged my laptop directly into the cable router earlier that night to test the cable router).
So — the solution was:
1 — set the Airport Express to be “ready for DHCP“
2 — turn off the Cable Router for more than a minute — so it releases it’s DHCP leases
3 — turn the Router back on — and presto — Airport Express has the single IP assigned to it’s MAC address and I’m good to go.
Elementary Fun
Dow/Popsci Periodic Table: This is a cool little widget of the visual aspects of all our elements — give our take.
Dirty Car — Lovely Art!
This artwork is pretty cool — it’s a form I kinda like, involving media that are temporary, but effort that’s extensive.