May 5th, 2005

It annoyed me that the weather dashboard widget only seemed to work with Australian capitols, so i found a way around it.

The widget itself uses the weather info from AccuWeather.com. If you go to the page manually and do a search there is actually a LOT of other weather info sources that arnt listed by default in the weather dashboard widget.

So, to make the dashboard weather widget work, just do a manual search on the webpage and bring up the details. Then look at the URL and at the very end is something like zipcode=AU;QU;ROCKHAMPTON%20AIRPORT;

Copy the part after zipcode= (without the last semi-colon) and paste it in the dashboard weather config where it asks for a zip code and it should update itself to show the weather.

So for Rockhampton, You pick the Rockhampton Airport location and the string to copy is AU;QU;ROCKHAMPTON%20AIRPORT, paste that in the zipcode of the dashboard widget and away you go

For the past few weeks ive been having some DNS related problems with my blog/website. The host and myself arnt sure exactly whats going on but it seems somewhat random.

Yesterday i could access my site at all form uni – kept telling me the host was unknown, yet other people outside of uni could see it fine. Today – its working fine again. Chances are tomorrow it will be down. Weird.

But yeah, thats why theres been a general lack of updates.

So a group of us are going to scale Mount Jim Crow this sunday. Should be good.

Its basically a bigish hill on the way to yepoon that has a walking track up it. Ive heard from others that the climb is tough – but doable and ive been meaning to actually do it for years now.

Ill probably take my digital camera and take some happy snaps. Ive gotta work out a good automater workflow for updating pictures to my blog

Only about 4 weeks till i head to WWDC again. Id have to say im probably more excited then the other two times ive been and i think it has to do with the fact that ive been doing developer type stuff recently and i think i can make the most of it this year.

Also, A mac dev center article kinda got me thinking and by the soundd of it the conference this year will be bigger and better then ever.

The recent release of tiger means that there will be a LOT of new things to learn, its exciting being on the crest of the mac development wave.

Id never really understood the whole ‘core data’ idea until yesterday. Previously id read about it and watched the WWDC presentations from last year but it just didnt click.

Anyway, yesterday i went through a tutorial from CocoaDevCentral and it kindd of just clicked.

Its amazing how powerful and awesome Core Data is from a developer point of view. By simply defining and drawing an ER diagram, core data basically lets us write a HUGE chucnk of an application without actually typing a single line of code.

I was blown away at how simple yet powerful the whole thing is, i cant wait to start using it more. WWDC this year should be great