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Whenever I find myself in a new situation at home or at work, it takes me awhile to adjust and get everything back to normal. For example, in July I started a new position at Disney and have transitioned to a normal person's schedule. Not since I was working on the Nemo project back in 2007 have I had a Monday-Friday schedule. So over the past few weeks, I've been getting used to rising at dawn and heading home with the masses.

The bad thing is that it's worn me out since I'm a night owl by trade. It took me a few mnths to get used to day shifts before, so I'm looking forward to my body acclimating. The good thing is that once again I'll be able to attend my friends parties on the weekend and heck maybe even throw a few!

Now if I can get my sleeping patterns in order, maybe I can work on my poor web site!

Speaking of web site killers aka social networks, I've tried out the new Google+ site. Most of you know I like clean simple interfaces, and in that regards it has succeeded. Hopefully, they will get the bugs worked out and more people will join, otherwise it will go the way of Loopt.

This is my first attempt at a so-called "unboxing" video, and the first video that I created with me in it to appear on YouTube. I set up the ClubJoshTV account (since someone inexplicably took ClubJosh as an account name - grr) to post videos that I took on some of my trips. Like most grand master planned things, it is on the back burner, but I figured for those who don't follow me on twitter, you might have missed the video, so here it is!

After setting up some magazines and some other showcase apps on my new iPad 2, I decided to start setting up programs on the iPad to help it replace my laptop on trips. First up was blogging. Little did I know how difficult it was going to be.

I had expected to use the normal MT interface to post to the Daily Update. The plan was to purchase Pages from the App Store(tm), compose a blog, and then copy-paste into the MT interface. The first thing I noticed was that I could not enter text into the body field, and when I tried to select Extended or anything else, it simply would not work. So I began researching MT apps that I could use to access the site.

The only one that I could find that people said interfaced with MT was BlogPress. It seemed to get some favorable reviews, and there was a bit of controversy regarding photos, but I was not interested in that since almost all my posts are just text. I bit the bullet and purchased the app, only to discover that for whatever reason, it would not access my MT setup on the Club Josh server. Usually, I can do some Google detective work to figure out the issue, but this time I was stumped.

Thankfully, I discovered that there was an update to the iMT plugin last year that makes it compatible with MT5 which I am currently using. Some further digging, and I discovered that I can enable support for iPad in the CGI settings. Hours later, I finally have my wireless keyboard paired with my iPad, and I was able to blog for the site.

Suprisingly, even the iMT will only allow me to select one category at a time. On the plus side, there is a beta of MT 5.1 which says it supports the latest web browsers, so I am hoping that it will finally allow me to access the dashboard via regular Safari.

At any rate, now that I have the iPad up and running, I will be downloading a few more apps to try and let me demo websites for clients and update them while on the road. **Fingers crossed**

One bonus note: I cannot tell you how much I love Flipboard! I was even able to get the RSS feed for the Club Josh Daily Update on it!