If you read my blog post from three days ago, you know that I installed iOS 5 and had problems getting my Reminders app to work. I asked for help on my blog, but I got more people asking me what I meant by the + button missing than people trying to help me out.

Also, people are still sending me suggestions, so I decided to announce that I managed to get my Re­minders app working. And for all of you who were curious what I meant by the + button, I took a screenshot of the app so you can see what I mean.

The problem was that I did not have Reminder syncing enabled in iCloud. Once I turned on syncing for Reminders, I was able to start adding reminders to my list. I don’t know why it’s necessary to sync your reminders for you to be able to even use it in the first place, but either way, I’m glad that it’s working now.

On the other hand, I’m not very glad that it’s not compatible with syncing with Google Tasks. I like to add tasks and reminders to my list of things to do from my computer because it’s a lot faster, and I use Google Tasks relatively frequently. It would be nice if it was able to sync with Google Tasks so I would able to access my task list from my mobile device. Google Tasks compatibility wasn’t available in pre­vious iOS versions, and I was hoping the OS upgrade would provide something basic like this, but apparently not.

A majority of my day today was spent programming for the Badger Herald‘s website. There will be a new staff page being rolled out within a few days with photos of all our staff members along with each of their entries. There’s also a submission form to ask one of our Wednesday columnists not-family-friendly questions.

A good chunk of my day also consisted of trying to figure out how to edit the CSS of our website so random styles don’t get changed as side effects of changing other styles.

Our entire website design and template was created and coded by our former web director. For what­ever reason, he decided it was a good idea to put the styling in multiple .css files and spread them all over the place so I can’t figure out where to edit the CSS.

One thing I’ve been attempting to do for a while is create a module on the home page that shows the articles that have the most comments. All the coding is done, but the only reason you don’t see it on the home page today is because I can’t get the styling right.

My first attempt resulted in all the hyperlinks showing up all the proper size, but all the subheadlines (that say when the article was posted and how many comments it has) ended up massively large. My second attempt resulted in all the subheadlines showing up the proper size, but all the hyperlinks showing up so small that nobody could read it without using two pairs of spectacles.

In other news, while looking up bus arrival times to go to the office, I witnessed two buses disappearing off the GPS tracking system and into thin air today.

I didn’t physically see the buses disappearing, but the GPS map claimed that they did.

As you have probably already guessed, I downloaded and installed iOS 5 two days ago when it was released to the public.

One problem I’m having (that I tweeted about yesterday) is that my Reminder’s app isn’t working at all.

http://twitpic.com/6zosv0

(I can’t embed the image because Twitpic doesn’t like people stealing their bandwidth and has some sort of authentication system that breaks embed codes after a while.)

There’s supposed to be a + button at the top right corner that adds new reminders, but I don’t seem to have one.

I already tried restarting the device multiple times, resyncing it with my laptop, tapping the screen all over the place at random locations, checking the Settings menu, and shaking it.

So if you have any suggestions, please tweet them at me as a response to the following tweet:

http://twitter.com/Parkzer/status/124484819223707648

A reader of my blog named Kelli requested a photo of the sociology documents I referred to in my blog post from October 8th.

Your wishes have come true. Here you go.

Update: Kelli emailed me again saying “I meant I wanted to see a photo of the side of the pile of papers so I could see how much stuff you had to read for your classes.” My response: “Oops.”

In other news, when writing up a lab reading for your students, make sure to proofread it.

Or else it will say that T represents the ability to taste PTC, and T also represents the inability to taste PTC.

Then one of your students will take a picture of it and upload it to his blog so the world can laugh at your mistake.

On a slightly related note, while I was reading that lab and doing the pre-lab questions in a library, the building next door thought it was a good idea to blast music so loudly that the people studying in the library could enjoy it as well.

Distractions seem to follow me around like a trail of ducklings.

Tip of the Day: Before you go out and buy ice pops, make sure that the freezer compartment in your freezer is cold enough to keep them frozen.

Or else you’ll end up like me and eat slushies on sticks.

In other news, I think all the leaves from most of the trees around my apartment fell off overnight.

Either that or I just haven’t noticed them because today was the first time in a few days that I took the north exit out of my apartment, and they might’ve spent the entire weekend falling off.

Either way, I can no longer walk in stealth into and out of my apartment anymore because the leaves crunch under my feet.

I learned today that if you’re going to store a lot of files onto your Gmail account because you haven’t been keeping up with your online backups, you shouldn’t upload more than a couple hundred megabytes, or else this will happen:

So there’s your tip of the day. I think the cut-off might be 300 MB, because I was able to successfully upload 292 MB before it decided it was time for me to stop.

If you’re wondering, no, I do not produce hundreds of megabytes of backups per day. This was stuff from the past handful of months or so, and it was a combination of mostly PDF/document packages and interval content backups for my website.

And finally, I’m going to assume that most of you are going to wonder what I mean by “packages,” so I’ll explain it now before people ask. If you were not already aware, the largest size for an individual file you can up­load to Gmail is 25,000 KB. This means that I can’t combine all the files I want to upload into a single mas­sive archive, but this also means that I don’t have to upload every single file individually. I take files that share something in common (for example, backups for Parkzer.com taken during September 2011) and combine them into a one archive so it’s not too big that it can’t be uploaded but not too small that it’s annoying to upload.

So yeah, I’m hoping my account isn’t going to be one of those rare cases that take 24 hours to be restored. I guess I’ll find out tomorrow morning when I wake up, and meanwhile, I’m going to sleep.