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Remember The Bloggies
The 2006 Bloggies are open for nominations. You know what to do, don’t make me beg…
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Elation Turns to Grief Over Fate of Miners
In a stunning and heartbreaking reversal, West Virginia mining officials told family members early Wednesday that 11 of the 12 trapped coal miners initially thought to have survived a mine explosion had died. The devastating news came more than three hours after Governor Joe Manchin said he had been told 12 of the miners survived the disaster. Rescue crews found the first victim earlier Tuesday evening.
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TiVolution
Over the weekend we had success in finding a USB Wireless Adapter for our TiVo box, so now I can pimp it freely without having to worry that it would end up a glorified paperweight in a few days time…
We love it, seriously, we never really watched much TV outside of Lost, Desperate Housewives, Grey’s Anatomy and House, now we’re watching so much it’s criminal, Robyn has went crazy recording all the freaky shows on TLC and Discovery. As you can see on the left, it’s weird shows like “Face Eating Tumor” and “The 750-Pound Man” that she’s into…After the whole painful drama that purchasing a network adapter caused, I was wondering if it was worth it, but since we got it hooked up it’s now updated to the latest software which allows it to stream music and view photos over the network (handy if you think about it, especially if we want to show off wedding photos) and we can transfer programs to the computers to watch there, or convert them for iPod viewing use. I also get Rocketboom downloaded for 3 or 4 minutes of silly news a day.
Now I know what your thinking, that you dont need anything like TiVo, but trust me, once you get it set up and you press the pause button or rewind for the first time, that’s it… You’re hooked. There’s no going back from then on. Then you go deeper and tell it what shows you like and set up season passes for first run only or repeats so you need never worry about missing anything ever again, I need no longer worry about going to APWBWGTTD meetings and missing Lost. Which is funny, as at the last one when I suggested they move the meetings to a non-Lost weeknight, I was told to get a TiVo.Infact, as it’s hooked up to our network, we don’t even need to be home program it! TiVo Central allows us to login from any computer anywhere and select programs to record, and through Yahoo! TV I can tell it to record stuff via my phone, the wonders of technology…
Another bonus of it is since we got our new TV a little over a month ago, we lost the TV guide that was built into the old TV (we just have basic cable with no box) so now we don’t have to worry about channel hopping or going to the PC to lookup TV Guide, lazy I know, but you’d be surprised how clueless you’d be without an on screen TV guide nowadays…It does have it’s downsides though, like no HDTV support (yet!) so if we want to watch HD we have to switch over to regular TV, multiple tuners like the DirecTiVo’s have would be cool, so if we were recording one channel, we could still watch another with the TiVo options instead of switching over to regular TV, and I’d really like it if the live TV buffer was longer than 30 minutes, say an hour… But other than that I have no complains at all, infact I’d go as far as saying I’m overjoyed with this.
Long live the TiVolution!
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A Real Time View of Digg
A real time view of Digg. So many posts, so many pointless posts… I’m yet to digg this whole Digg phenomenon. [via]
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Top 10 Brands… According to Rappers
Mercedes-Benz was the most mentioned brand in 2005’s biggest rap hits, found a survey released this week. Rapper 50 Cent was the most brand-dropping rapper of the year, with 17 product mentions in 7 songs, mentioning brands like Bentley, Cristal, Lamborghini, Mercedes and Nike.
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Windows Live Mail
Test the new-ish Windows Live Mail without an invite. It works with Internet Explorer only though…
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Skydiving From Space
A great video of Joe Kittinger, who flew a balloon up to an altitude of 30km… And jumped. To all intents and purposes, he was the first man in space. He was also the first man to break the sound barrier without an aircraft.
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WordPress 2 Observations
It’s been a bad night as I didn’t get much sleep, so this might sound more ranty than it really is…
Firstly, that WYSIWYG interface? Freakin’ awful… I’ve spent the last 2½ years in total control of my postings, I’m not ready for some fancy-schmancy bit of javascript take it away from me… The only blessing is it can be turned off.
The Inline File Upload sucks ass, I had my upload path going to my normal images folder, completly ignoring the wp-images one so now why would I want to change that? I didn’t even get the option, WordPress changed it for me, luckily I found a plugin that restores the old upload method, but it’s kinda sad it required a plugin to do that… Sure, it’ll protect some users from uploading large images that may ruin their layout, but surely that’s their perogative? Also, the option not to have the big stinking box on the post page would be nice.
While I’m on the image upload… Why would I want the image to be a post in it’s own right? This option should not be a default.
The Flickr BlogThis option has been screwy recently as the WordPress XMLRPC has changed… Apparently it doesn’t like the classes I specified in the layout on Flickr, which really sucks. Good thing I kept the moblog as WP 1.5.2 which has no problems accepting Flickr posts.
Michael Heilemann pointed out how useless the “Other WordPress News” feed is and I’m in full agreement, sadly the Dashboard Options plugin isn’t 2.0 compatable (at time of writing) as you were able to turn that waste of space off.
The phantom self induced pingbacks are back… Easily the worst option in WordPress. Pinging other sites is ok, but when I link to a post of my own I shouldn’t see a dirty pingback, this disappeared in 1.5.x (at least for me) but now it’s back with a vengeance as is the non working trackbacks.
Thats the current negative aspects of WordPress 2 for me, the rest of it is great, I do like the movable AJAX sections in the post page and the ability to expand/collapse them, I do like the fact Akismet and the DB Backup plugins came with it, I do like the new look to the admin interface, so much so I’ve not bothered to get the updated Tiger Admin plugin.
Overall it’s a big step forward for the WordPress team and they should be congratulated, but to a user like me who was extremely comfortable with the 1.2/1.5 way of doing things, it’s a slight step back in many places as they cater to novice or new WordPress users (I assume). Just proves you can’t please all the people all the time…
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Stats For 2005
This is a completely self indulgent post, I never really cared much about stats till this year. I would check them occasionally before but I never really appreciated them until the big Paris Hilton explosion early last year.
Now I check them religeously and I’ve been happy with the solid increase in traffic for this place, I guess that means I’m doing something right, right? Plus it gives me targets for this year…
Anyways, I’ve managed to slowly but surely build up a solid base of viewers:
Though my stats told me a different story when Paris exploded (it said 37.11GB was burned in one day for example) but February aside, things have been on the up and up, which only means good…
Windows users have been the dominant spieces, which is expected as Windows dominates the world anyways, and a big shout out to Amiga OS users… That’s hardcore… A more encouraging statistic comes from the browser share
Firefox claiming 15% of my readership, this time next year I’d hope it’ll be much much higher…
Finally how do people get here?
Natalie Portman? Lindsay Lohan? Jen Schefft? Nah… They can’t even touch the amount of people coming here looking for MSN Messenger 8.0 (so much so I had to close an unrelated post, but they still come asking for it…)
See, I told you this was self indulgent… Now I have to hide as my hosts will kill me for killing the server CPU while I got these stats together, apparently I’m one of their bandwidth hogging customers.
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Doug Flutie Scores First NFL Drop Kick in 64 Years
Doug Flutie added another oddity to his football resume on Sunday when he converted a drop kick in the fourth quarter of the New England Patriots’ 28-26 loss to the Miami Dolphins, the first drop kick since the 1941 NFL championship game. The dropkick remains in the NFL’s official rule book, even though it hadn’t been successfully converted in decades. Rule 3, Section 8 defines the drop kick as “a kick by a kicker who drops the ball and kicks it as, or immediately after, it touches the ground.”
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Happy New Year
So here we are, 2006, closer to the year 2010 than we were to the turn of the Millennium, freaky…We spent the night at Philips with the Atlanta Flickr peeps, with a surprise guest from Raleigh, generally having fun and blowing shit up, isn’t that what new year is all about?
Oh well… Hopefully this year brings about good fortune and health and all that kind of stuff, and I hope you had a good time with 2005, time to trade it in for 2006, but be careful, it’s the only 2006 you’ll get…
Originally uploaded by FLC.
