The issue, blogger Doug Krahmer explains, is caused by the Facebook app caching all data indefinitely. “The data is never deleted and each cache file is checked/updated every time the app attempts to post.” See Doug’s original post here: http://blog.krahmersoft.com/?p=17

Doug’s solution was to create an auto-running script that cleans the cached Facebook data each morning at 4:00 AM. You’ll need to have SSH and terminal access to your iPhone.

NOTE: If the iPhone’s Terminal application crashes when launched, fix the problem by following the instructions here.

Follow these steps:

1. Find your facebook app GUID by running the following command. The GUID will look something like (B81C7FF4-78B8-4898-8BFC-DA83AFEA8E95):

find /User/Applications/*/Facebook.app/Facebook

2. Create a new file named /usr/bin/fixfacebook.sh and insert the following content. (Note: you must replace each ?????????? with the facebook app GUID from the previous step.)

#!/bin/sh

echo Removing facebook cache files...

rm /User/Applications/??????????/Library/Caches/Three20/0*
rm /User/Applications/??????????/Library/Caches/Three20/1*
rm /User/Applications/??????????/Library/Caches/Three20/2*
rm /User/Applications/??????????/Library/Caches/Three20/3*
rm /User/Applications/??????????/Library/Caches/Three20/4*
rm /User/Applications/??????????/Library/Caches/Three20/5*
rm /User/Applications/??????????/Library/Caches/Three20/6*
rm /User/Applications/??????????/Library/Caches/Three20/7*
rm /User/Applications/??????????/Library/Caches/Three20/8*
rm /User/Applications/??????????/Library/Caches/Three20/9*
rm /User/Applications/??????????/Library/Caches/Three20/a*
rm /User/Applications/??????????/Library/Caches/Three20/b*
rm /User/Applications/??????????/Library/Caches/Three20/c*
rm /User/Applications/??????????/Library/Caches/Three20/d*
rm /User/Applications/??????????/Library/Caches/Three20/e*
rm /User/Applications/??????????/Library/Caches/Three20/f*

3. To set up a schedule, create a new file named /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.krahmersoft.fixfacebook.plist with the following content:

<?xml version="1.0? encoding="UTF-8??>

<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN"
                "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0?>
       <dict>
               <key>Label</key>
               <string>com.krahmersoft.fixfacebook</string>
               <key>OnDemand</key>
               <true/>
               <key>Program</key>
               <string>/usr/bin/fixfacebook.sh</string>
               <key>StartCalendarInterval</key>
               <dict>
                      <key>Hour</key>
                      <integer>4</integer>
                      <key>Minute</key>
                      <integer>0</integer>
               </dict>
       </dict>
</plist>

4. Run the following command to make the script executable. (I prefer to use Cyberduck to make these kind of changes.)

chmod 755 /usr/bin/fixfacebook.sh

5. Run the following command to preform the cleanup immediately (could take several minutes):

/usr/bin/fixfacebook.sh

6. Reboot your phone to activate the schedule.

That’s it! No more lagginess from the Facebook app.

Today was our first family geocaching adventure!

We had to delay our trip for a little while due to an afternoon thunderstorm and so took a side expedition just up the road to an old grist mill, the Gilreath Mill on highway 101 in Greer. Camille stayed in the car with our two snoozing boys, and I got out to explore for a bit.

History dates the mill to the early 1800s. Additional information on the mill is available on the South Carolina Department of Archives and History website.

By the time I’d finished exploring, the rain had stopped.

A geocaching app that I’d downloaded to my iPhone indicated  that there was a cache originally placed in November, 2008 on the site of the old Chick Springs Hotel and Sanitarium. Camille and I had read previously the very interesting history of that location, and it’s just across Wade Hampton from us, an area that we regularly drive past. We knew that would be a good first choice, and so off we drove. When we arrived, we set out from the car and trekked across the wet grass towards the old spring house, one of the few remaining structures.

There we stopped and listened to the spring gurgling inside the spring house.

The clues we were given told us that the cache was hidden somewhere about 6 feet off the ground, “wires window looking to the gazebo.” (There was an old gazebo on the back end of the property that you can see in two of the pictures above, the pictures without Isaac in them.) We worked our way around the backside of the spring house structure, looked up into the eaves, and there it was: a small, white, plastic 35mm film canister. It had a magnet attached to its bottom, the magnet holding the canister to a small metal plate.

The log indicated that the cache had been found by previous geocachers just a day earlier, and before that, a month earlier. There were about 25 other log entries dating back to when the cache was first hidden.

After signing and dating the log, we put the cache back in its hiding spot for the next people to find.

This cache’s container was too small to hold any trinkets. But there are scads of other caches close to our house, some less than 1/2 mile from our front door. I’m sure we’ll have opportunity to exchange “treasures” soon.

It was great that our first attempt could be so completely successful, and we’re already planning our next adventure. What a great family hobby!

This lack of funds combined with an inability to seek help from any other source (not to mention threats that leaving this glorious ministry will ruin God’s will for your life), combines to create a class of indentured servitude with people who are too literally too poor to escape the cycle. Add to this the bellowing of preachers who blast their lackeys for even daring to inquire about how much money a ministry position might pay and you end up with a very sad situation indeed.

Via Stuff Fundies Like.

iTunes could not sync contacts to the iPhone because the sync server failed to sync the iPhone

I addition to the above, the process would stall when trying to sync Safari bookmarks.

I was finally able to solve the problem thanks to a find over on Apple’s support forums:

• back up the Apple Address Book
• trash any items in the (user) / Library / ApplicationSupport / SyncServices folder
• restart the computer
• ensure sure that contacts and Safari bookmarks are checked to sync in iTunes
• re-sync

I am grateful.

• several coins gold pirate booty
• Yoshi
• a red die
• two tiny swords
• one miniature Darth Vader helmet
• one of my wife’s needles (in my finger, yeooooowch)
• numerous snack memories
• a sock
• a cookie cutter
• one black flute-o-phone (both halves)
• Captain Hook’s famed appendage
• a cotton ball
• a lovely ruby gem
• a diminutive medieval axe
• one vintage Fisher-Price letter addressed to “Theater”
• one unidentified Lego “thing”

No marble unfortunately. But with all of the other wonders that emerged, who could care less?