Category: General

Sorry for the lack of posts lately as well as the state the site is in currently.

My hosting provider, POWWEB, has been migrating everybody to new servers. Of course, my site has to be a problem child. I worked with them for a while to try to resolve the problems but, as often happens, nobody could make heads or tails of them so I’m on my own.

Fed up with not being able to post for nearly the past two weeks (my posts ran the risk of being lost if they were not migrated to the new server), I finally called them yesterday and told them to flip the DNS and I’d just have to take whatever happens and deal with it.

I’ll probably have to upgrade all 3 major components of my web site – my WordPress (this blogging software), Gallery2 (the stuff that hosts and displays my pictures) and the plug-in module that allows me to combine the two. It appears that it’s really the plug-in software that is at issue. For some reason it simply refuses to save any settings and then cannot validate itself.

I have to do some work today (yeah, I know, life of an infrastructure person) and I’ve booked a night flight to retain my currency, so I may not be able to resolve these issues until tomorrow or perhaps even into next week as there is always a LOT of reading and prep that needs to be done to upgrade this kind of software.

Sorry for the delay in posts, my web host, Powweb, is working on a problem with migrating my website to a new server.

You may have noticed my site was hopelessly bollucksed up a couple of weeks ago when they went ahead and pointed the new server prematurely.

Anyway, I’ve been waiting for some resolution to a problem I’m having with the Gallery2 WordPress plugin (the one responsible for displaying my pictures in the sidebar and within my posts). I simply cannot save any of my plugin settings in the new environment.

I stopped posting to avoid interfering with any progress that the Powweb folks may be making but I’m not feeling overly confident that this issue is going to be addressed before the August 31 deadline. At which point my old server simply will go away.

So I’ll be posting again and just kicking off the “migrate” files option nightly to ensure that my site is as synched as possible across the old and new servers.

Just as the title says, this guy must have had a lot of time on his hands. But he can do things with soap bubbles that you probably never imagined possible.

Ever wonder what it would look like if a “planet killer” sized asteroid impacted the Earth?

Well, wonder no more (be prepared, it is about 7 minutes long). It may seem a little depressing, and definitely scary. But it should serve as a reminder about exactly why we might want to continue to expand out into the solar system and, ultimately, the rest of the galaxy.

I’m just amazed that this guy can move this much for so long. An interpretive evolution of Dance (funny and awesome..).

Webtender.com is a great website for finding new recipies. My favorite feature is “In My Bar” wherein you list the contents of your bar and it lists the kinds of mixed drinks you can make with those ingredients.

The interface is a little crude, but the information is great. You want to know what certain measurements mean (what *is* a “splash” anyway?), it’s all right there.

I’m not 100% certain whether or not Linda Stone coined the term “Continuous Partial Attention” but she has certainly been shedding light on the cause and probable effects of this growing trend. The Continuous Partial Attention Wiki is an interesting resource if you want to learn more about what is sure to impact any of us who have to work in the brave new always connected world…

Giant shark snacking on a seal. Just be thankful that you aren’t in a kayak next to this…

I’ve only seen these in Canada, although I’m sure they must be sold in the Unites States as well. I can only imagine that they would end up being used as chocks for those ridiculous extravagances that we call SUVs if they ever showed up here in the South.
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They seem awfully small, apparently seating two adults and not much else.

Update (May 28, 2011) – The video is gone from College Humor, but it *is* on YouTube. So I’ve embedded it here.

The song is “What’s it Gonna Be” and it’s still a good laugh but definitely NSFW and probably would be considered vulgar by those with sensitive dispositions. To those folks I say, skip this and / or get help.

Update (August 6, 2006): this video is by Mike O’Connell.

This posting on Collegehumor.com is like a car accident. You know you don’t want to look but you can’t resist at the same time. Not safe for work but worth a look.