I hate shaving the yak.

Saturday, 9:30am: I decide to test-drive MarsEdit‘s offline blog editing features. Well the latest MarsEdit only works on Mac OSX Snow Leopard. I figure an OS upgrade is long overdue anyhow, so I reluctantly upgrade. Post-reboot, I wait for an additional 1.12GB in MacOS software updates to complete. I discover that the Ruby version on my machine is no longer 1.9.1; it has somehow reverted to 1.8.6. I use MacPorts to manage the development tool installations, but the Snow Leopard version of MacPorts needs Xcode 3.2.1, not the 3.1.2 installed with Snow Leopard. Ugh. It takes me awhile but I finally hunt down a copy of Xcode 3.2.1, which makes it possible to re-install MacPorts. I then re-install all the ports which were working before, including Ruby 1.91.

Saturday, 12:20pm: I re-learn an old lesson:

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