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WordPress has released a client for the iPhone.  Unfortunately for me, it doesn’t work.  Whenever I attempt to add my blog to the client, it immediately proceeds to crash, returning me to my home screen.  After repeated restarts of my phone and the application itself, I give up.  It would appear that while this application works for everyone else, I’m out of luck when it comes to publishing posts on my blog from my iPhone.

My Wii had been functioning fine (connecting to an Airport Express) for several weeks until we suffered a power outage (What can I say, the Wii isn’t on the UPS!).  After bring the entertainment center back up (it’s like mission control at NASA), the Wii would not reconnect to the wireless network at all.  Repeated attempts to enter the password as well as altering several aspects of the router configuration failed to help.

There was however one action that allowed the Wii to connect.  Changing the channel that the router operates on from “Automatic” to Channel 1 allowed the Wii to see the world again.  Someone at Nintendo needs to put out an update to allow their hardware to connect on more that two channels (I’ve heard that Channel 11 also works quite well).

The default behavior for the tab key on your keyboard in OS X when a dialog box appears is do… NOTHING.  This is one of the strangest behaviors to adapt to (coming from a Windows world.  A good post on how to modify your settings so the tab key works in a sane manner can be found here.

Recently, I had the opportunity to install Windows Server 2008 x64 on my MacBook Pro. With the recent updates for BootCamp (drivers) and a little bit of perseverance, I am now up and running.

1. Install Server 2008 (be sure to select Full Installation to install the GUI interface). If you have any trouble booting from the installation DVD, specifically being stuck at the “Select CD-ROM Boot Type:”, you can follow the instructions here to create a bootable DVD.
2. Install the latest x64 BootCamp drivers (version 2.0) that were released for the Mac Pros. (Note: The link for the drivers points to a torrent at The Pirate Bay as Apple does not provide downloads of the original driver media.
3. Install the updated BootCamp drivers (version 2.1). You must first install the drivers from the previous step before the driver update can be applied.
   1. On my MacBook Pro, the Atheros 5800X wireless driver was not installing properly. A working x64 driver can be found here.
4. To fully enable wireless access (being able to join a wireless network, etc.), the “Wireless LAN Service” feature needs to be enabled.
5. If you plan on using your server installation as more of a desktop installation, you can view the excellent guide at win2008workstation.com.

The only true “gotchas” with the installation of Server 2008 on the MacBook Pro are the installation of the wireless drivers and the enabling of the “Wireless LAN Service” feature to allow for enumeration of wireless networks.

If anyone has any more to add, sound off in the comments!