I wanted to update WordPress to 3.2 but hit a snag. Unfortunately 3.2 requires an update to PHP 5.2 which isn’t in stock CentOS. So I followed the instructions here to update to PHP 5.2 using the CentOS Testing repos. However I use eAccelerator which was built for 5.1 so before I could update the …
Category Archive: Randomness
Feb
08
2010
When Less is More
Hmmm… you would think the empty set resulting from the intersection of the product title and product features would have been a clue that something was awry.
Apr
27
2009
Social Networking vs. Social Matrices
In a social networking site that is truly extensible and robust we wouldn’t feel the urge to move on. Restarting on a shiny new site or culling or pruning your “friends” on an existing site wouldn’t be necessary. But we have been misled. Social networking doesn’t have to be all or nothing. We shouldn’t feel …
Mar
10
2008
Giant Space Robots are *NOT COOL*
I know the idea of robots in space sounds cool but lets think this through. First of all the robot is fucking huge, “11-foot arms, a shoulder span of nearly 8 feet and a height of 12 feet”. It doesn’t have legs but with arms like that you don’t actually need appendages on the bottom …
Jan
26
2008
Australia is pretty and stuff
I’m visiting Australia for business. This is only my second trip down here but last time I was relegated to Surfer’s Paradise and Brisbane. Great, beautiful beaches but it was still a beach. This time I’m down in Canberra (then Melbourne, then Sydney) and was lucky enough to visit over Australia Day (American’s think the …
Nov
25
2007
I’m a Social Butterfly
I decided to try come out of my cocoon and try all the social networking sites. Of course there are quite a few and the attempts to unify all of these sites haven’t been successful. So for your enjoyment, as I know you all are very interested in my life, I have started using these …
Nov
10
2007
No Recorder Found?
Went to burn the new Fedora 8 DVD ISO to a disc today. Opened up Toast, selected the image file, and clicked record. Got a simple “No recorder found” error. Couldn’t figure out what it was. My first thought, one of those SoBs at work wanted to put one in their Dell. Perhaps Josh or …
Aug
29
2007
Upgrading WordPress
I’m doing a major upgrade of WordPress and was doing it in a sandbox. Unfortunately it needed to upgrade the database table structure. I really didn’t feel like copying and renaming tables and shit so I upgraded the main table structure and made my sandbox active. Sorry for the horrific interface hopefully it will be …
Aug
29
2007
Red Light & Speed Cameras of the Future
I, like every other red-blooded human, hate red light & speed cameras. I’ve never been hit by one personally but I do consider them revenue generating machines. In Maryland tickets from a red light camera don’t even count as a moving violation so how can you claim otherwise? I was very interested to see the …
Aug
23
2007
Heightened Threat Levels
I don’t usually post crap I receive in email but being in the security industry I found this pretty damn funny. Also I think that all this threat level stuff is a crock of shit: EUROPEANS HEIGHTEN THREAT LEVELS The English are feeling the pinch in relation to recent terrorist threats and have raised their …
