Category Archives: internet

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Vote for Negative

2008.02.19 – 4:34 pm PST

Please vote for my dog in this internet photo contest I entered, and mentioned about a week ago. Tell all your friends!

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OpenID + Wordpress = <3

2008.02.16 – 4:52 pm PST

The pun is a little late for Valentine’s day, but I just noticed and installed it today. There is a working OpenID plugin for Wordpress. My previous method for using with Wordpress failed and stopped working several months ago, I forget when, I even left the plugin sitting there broken and activated until I just now removed it. How bad is that? haha, but anyways. You should also drop any old OpenID related tables from your database before enabling the new plugin. Enjoy the OpenID + Wordpress = <3 and always remember to back your database often.

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health care debates

2008.02.09 – 1:08 pm PST

Dave Winer is talking about health care issues on his blog again today and says something I can completely identify with.

“But if you have property, a car, a house, or if your kids go to private school, or if you want to take a vacation, or have a baby, or exercise between jobs, getting sick without insurance is a sure way to go from being middle class to being poor, quickly.” link

Even with supposed Workers’ Compensation insurance you can end up poor too.   So I chimed in with my two cents.

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minty fresh, online cool

2008.02.01 – 7:29 pm PST

Today I decided to try out Mint which is in beta.  It’s an online financial tool which aggregates your internet enabled accounts into one place and disseminates important information to you in an easy to read way.  I’m not to sure about the “Ways to save” part of the site which directs you to their partners.  Outside of that, I like this new tool.

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transitional title of importance

2008.02.01 – 12:37 am PST

Today I decided that I would import my LiveJournal posts. This process started off with manually exporting each month which contained a post. Taking breaks every 30-40 minutes this took me about 3 hours. The next part of my monumental task of importing took the longest thus far. A reason it took so long though was due to the pinging process happening for each post after it was imported. Once realized and turned off after completing about half of the data set, it only took me another 45 minutes importing each month. Holy crap is it a manual task to get information out of LiveJournal and into something else like Wordpress.

I imported roughly 700+ posts, and now have begun the task of categorization, tagging, spell checking, and filtering. Even if I attempt to break up the task into about 100 posts/day, I expect this to take the longest as there isn’t any quality plugins for mass post property editing in Wordpress. I don’t think it imported any of the comments, which is unfortunate, but fine as I rarely ever received comments.

It’s interesting reading and going over stuff that happened to me so many years ago. The earliest bit of information I now have is from July 2002.

Here is my tip to give to the community.  One key thing to remember is the more plugins you have activated in your Wordpress installation the slower it will function.  Before attempting such a task yourself, disable all unnecessary plugins you have.  This will save a tremendous amount of load time off each page/edit/task you attempt.

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end of the year speed test

2007.12.26 – 11:01 pm PST

It’s near the end of the year and I haven’t done or posted a speed test from my new home.

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livejournal mindmap

2007.12.26 – 3:52 pm PST

Werd to the LiveJournal peepz.


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Shop Victoriously

2007.11.04 – 3:53 pm PST

The winner of my Nokia N770 only paid $106.49, what a steal. heh After my PayPal fee of -$3.39 USD I made a cool $103.10 USD.  This of course does not count in my shipping costs which I have yet to figure out.

It kind of feels like I rented it in effect. For something I owned a few months, and spent around ~$150 that’s not bad, I had fun with the device, and now I have about a 1/4 of the money to buy myself a Nokia N810.

Next time; never have your auctions end this morning at 5am MST. I have no idea why I did that, I should have made it end a lot latter around 5pm MST. Ohwell. Learning experience. :)

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M$ wants your health

2007.10.08 – 9:00 pm PDT

After reading Doc Searls’ post Health Care or Health snare, I decided to try out M$ HealthVault and see what if any use it would be to me. Boredom ensued, and here I am writing about the experience.

I found the requirement to change my, unused Hotmail/Passport account, password to something stronger to be annoying along with the 20 minute timeout for using the system, and the inability to efficiently work with Firefox.

HealthVault is a neat concept, but alas it just seems to be a glorified file-sharing platform allowing the user to upload any file and provide an Access Control List like property to the files by email addresses and expiration date. I first decided to upload an image, which the system recognized as an image but would only let me view it by downloading the image. I’m sure this is the case with other file types as well. Having to download documents, and allowing for possible changes this could easily become a nightmare with different revisions and such. I’m thinking a Google Docs would be much more smart way to share docs.

Another interesting thing I saw, there is no visible limit to the file size your allowed to upload. How much space are they letting us use up for our records? I’m attempting to create and load a large Jpeg image right now to simulate an MRI, but it’s not working quite right. I wish I had an actual MRI file to try. I’m also trying to upload a series of larger binary files from 5MB to 20MB, generated via /dev/urandom. The largest size I’ve been able to upload is 5MB, and still got an error; “There was a problem in your last request. Please review the following issues: * Please specify a valid file.” Ohwell.

“I believe that many of our health care problems, including the high number of people killed each year by bad or absent data, can only be solved by a fully decentralized system, rather than by a centralized one (or ones) run by governments, businesses, or some combination of both.” - Doc

I fully agree with Doc, that our health records should be decentralized, and strongly protected. Perhaps M$ should think about integrating HealthVault into their Windows Home Media Server idea, and then making the storage a free and open standard so others can build off it. But we all know they won’t.

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Amareikan axent Kwiz.

2007.10.04 – 6:56 pm PDT
What American accent do you have?

Your Result: The Midland

 

 

“You have a Midland accent” is just another way of saying “you don’t have an accent.” You probably are from the Midland (Pennsylvania, southern Ohio, southern Indiana, southern Illinois, and Missouri) but then for all we know you could be from Florida or Charleston or one of those big southern cities like Atlanta or Dallas. You have a good voice for TV and radio.
The Inland North

 

 
North Central

 

 
The West

 

 
The South

 

 
Philadelphia

 

 
Boston

 

 
The Northeast

 

 
What American accent do you have?
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The way home.

2007.09.27 – 4:00 am PDT

Here I am again on the road. Still my dad is driving home. Only 1.5 hours to go. We’re almost to Tuscon. I can tell from the construction on the highway right before it opens up into 3 lanes.

Why does the auto complete want to end almost ever word with a “typing ing”?
ion Completioning typinging almosingredient hmm.
That killed a few minutes. We’re now in Tuscon. Passing exit 248, almost to where the major construction is at. My dad just hit some debris on the road. It scared the crap outta him. ;)

I actually kinda like using this thing to blog while on the road. should try out Maemowordpy, and Canola on his Nokia 800 when he gets his. He got it.(I wonder if he’ll take up my suggestion on the software?)

BTW.. if I haven’t said it all before, I’ll say it again… Someone needs to get a bluetooth headset/headphones working with these internet tablets, then it could be a podcasting blogstation too. Very neat indeeding. Hehe. I bet the sound quality would be quite remarkable with even a crappy headset. I wonder how how long it will be before it happens, it’s only a matter of time as I’m pretty sure it’s already been thought up.

Killing time still… Exit 268 now. Not a lot of traffic. It’s nice. Ok enough random stuff, time to save. Iwish the default save filename for Maemowordpy was better than “File”. If it merely had a date and time and smarter save and re-open process it would be so much more functional for everyday folk. Ok done for real this time… Savinging

We got home about 1/2hour ago. Total trip tine, 36 hours and change. 22 driving. 12 in the hotel. 2 at the doctor’s office. The doctor appointment went pretty good by the way.

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