It seems lots of people are having trouble getting Spotlight to find stuff in iPhoto. While it’s not so difficult to open up iPhoto and just search for something in there, it kind of defeats the purpose of Spotlight in general. Unfortunately Spotlight doesn’t use all metadata available in indexing. In particular, it doesn’t use the film roll title. Making matters worse, iPhoto doesn’t give you an easy to rename files.

You may think I’m joking. I am not. We’ve had some performance problems with our mail server recently so I’ve been doing all kinds of profiling to try to pinpoint the problem. In doing so I calculated the number of message rejected vs. queued vs. spamassassinated vs marked as Junk in Thunderbird (just in my inbox). Believe it or not, 99.44% of all messages are pure SPAM. This is a sad world we live in.

I’ve been out of communication for too long. I had six teeth pulled last Saturday. I already had one wisdom tooth pulled in January so in addition to that I had three supernumerary teeth removed. One grew in between my first and second molars on the upper left side. One was a baby tooth that never fell out (which now incidentally has left a very large gap). And one was a tooth that never grew in, never emerged from my gums.

I just received a call from my mom telling me that my Aunt Anna has died. When Cecilia’s dad died, I couldn’t think of a single thing to say to her. Now that my aunt has died I can’t think of a thing to say to myself either. In the past when major things happened in my life it was almost as if it weren’t real, as though it were a movie I could just back it up to the point before it happened, or reload my savegame and try again.

I’ve been a strong advocate of Mac OS X ever since I switched last April, and even bigger since I got my iMac G5. Now that Apple is apparently releasing a sub-$500 Mac there’s no reason for the average user to buy anything else. The more I use Mac OS X the better it gets. One of the things that I loved about even the Mac Classic was a feature called PathFinder.