I ran Apple’s Lion Recovery Disk Assistant on my Air and took the screenshots below. The only problem I ran into is that it looks like a 1GB USB drive is too small despite Apple’s documentation that it provides sufficient space. I switched to a 2GB USB flash drive which worked fine.
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Apple released a tool today that can create an recovery partition on an external drive. The tool needs an existing functional Lion installation to start with. So, the tool needs to be exercised before a disaster or hard disk replacement. The Lion Recovery Disk Assistant needs 1GB of available space on an external hard drive or USB Flash drive.
Here’s what Apple has to say about the external recovery system once it is created: When the Lion Recovery Disk Assistant completes, the new partition will not be visible in the Finder or Disk Utility. To access Lion Recovery, reboot the computer while holding the Option key. Select Recovery HD from the Startup Manager.
Lion Recovery Disk Assistant (tool download page)
OS X Lion: About Lion Recovery Disk Assistant (tool information page)
Unfortunately WordPress 1.2 for Windows Phone is still not ready for prime time. The keyboard continues to get in the way when creating a new blog post. The landscape keyboard entry is welcome, however.
Addendum: You can move the virtual keyboard out of the way by, non-intuitively, tapping the Windows Phone back soft-key (next to the Windows soft-key, not to be confused with the backspace key).
The FCC released a report titled:
What did they find? The average peak period sustained download is less than the advertised speed for every broadband provider except Comcast and Verizon FIOS. This is no surprise to anyone. The report also notes on average fiber access is faster than cable which is faster than DSL. Again, no surprise.
There’s no call to action based on the report. So, it is merely informational.
Nokia has a new phone naming scheme. And, while their intentions are sound, the execution is flawed (IMO).
What’s in a name? Nokia’s product name conventions
The new naming scheme is a 3 digit number. The first digit on the left designates the “smartness” and price of the phone. The 900 series will, for example designate the top-of-the-line Nokia phone series. The next two digits provides unique model designators within a series. There are two big problems with this scheme.
1. They will run out of numbers sooner than they expect. Phones in the lower price/performance levels will probably see new models several times a year. And, it is unlikely Nokia will actually number them in single digit ascending sequence: 101, 102, 103, etc. They will have to reuse numbers much sooner than expected and eventually create namespace collisions in consumer’s minds.
2. Naming in hundreds somehow sounds wrong. Using Nokia’s model number system with thousands would have sounded better and would avoid namespace collision for many years. To me the “Nokia 9001″ sounds better than the “Nokia 901.” And, we know for a fact that the Terminator T-1000 was way cooler than the T-800 
