Archive for the 'Culture' Category
Google Buzz
I heard about Google Buzz on CBC Radio yesterday… came home and tried to connect but it wasn’t activated. What’s all this Buzz about? Today, while using Gmail, I noticed the icon for it, opened it up, and added some “connected sites”. I’ve already had two conversations about a picture of a turtle I took a few years back. Awesome.
Seems easier to use than Facebook too.
Posted by Karl Herrick on February 10th, 2010 in Google, Culture | No Comments »
Sloppiness at 1and1
So I have been noticing issues with 1and1 again. Yesterday when trying to get into my hosting control panel at admin.and1.com, I received a “HTTP Error 503 Service unavailable” error, and thought to myself… really, on the admin panel… really?
Today while checking out my own site, I noticed that all of the PHP files I tried browsing to returned “500 Internal Server Error” errors.
Now this has gone too far… so I called them up. At first the person I talked to explained that I needed to force PHP5 using a .htaccess file, and proceeded to tell me that they could make the change for me. Calmly, I responded by saying that I did not want a change, and that it had been working fine the way it was for months.
She put me on hold, and while I waited… it started working. She told me that the shared hosting server “had a glitch”.
Afterwards, I ssh’ed into my server. Look what I found:
total XX
-rw-r–r– 1 uXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX 16 Feb 3 14:06 info.php
I thought, “weird, I didn’t put that there”.
Shame on you 1and1, for not cleaning up after yourself. Well, I guess you get what you pay for.
Posted by Karl Herrick on February 3rd, 2010 in Culture, Linux, Hosting, Bash | No Comments »
Twitter is over capacity
While trying to link Ping.fm to Twitter I saw this classy notice:
That kind of reminds me when I used to try to call my brother in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan… the phone would beep this funny tone indicating that they were over capacity and the call could not go through.
Posted by Karl Herrick on October 17th, 2009 in Culture | No Comments »
Lego Car
My son often requests family time at the Lego set. A recent evening produced this surprisingly fast wired remote control car. The trick I have found with Technic Legos, is to set the gearing tight while building, and then loosen it up a bit before turning the power on… otherwise the motor gets bogged down by friction. Someday, I think I will have to look into Lego Mindstorms.
Posted by Karl Herrick on December 17th, 2007 in Hardware, Culture | No Comments »
ar·ma·men·tar·i·um
One definition of armamentarium is: The complete range of materials available or used for a task.
May my complete range of materials available to be used on a specific task, forever more, be vastly larger than it is now (lots of tools available). 
Or another way of looking at it could be… May my tasks be able to be completed successfully with an ever decreasing range of materials available to be used (simplification of the task).
Posted by Karl Herrick on December 14th, 2007 in Culture | No Comments »