Here's a cool tool for web designers. It's a service that will generate screenshots on a myriad of platforms for you. What's more, it will give you a psd file full of layers of the screenshots, so you can see the differences easily. Pay by the hour or monthly.
Yesterday I went to my web host with a request which I expected to be a hassle, possibly cause an outage, and probably cost me money to boot.
They had it done yesterday. No hassle, no outage, no cost. Freaking amazing. If you need a web host, I highly recommend dreamhost. They haven't let me down yet. I don't think I don't recall getting service like that from any other company of any kind.
Plus they give referral credits. But that's not my motivation here. Nosirreebob. Seriously.
mt-medic is a handy tool if you have an MT weblog and you can't do a password reset.
Now, if only my problems were so simple. I've taken over as webmanager of a non-profit site, (including problem log of the day). Coincidentally there's been a number of problems beyond my control. I think a recent server move might be at the root of the current issues. After the move, the site search was broken because the search cgi had the wrong permissions. Easily fixed. On this one I'm kind of stumped. phpmyadmin says the db doesn't exist, but old posts show on the log. How can there be posts with no db?!
Hrmmm...
Finally. A computer that keeps up with me. This is bliss.
Stilwell was right about the 20 restarts before you can actually do anything on a new machine -- though it felt like even more than that. But, by the time I finally had to go to bed last night I at least had a working, surfing, secure machine with most drivers installed.
Anyhoo. Still work to do so I'd better go...
About 20 hours until I we get my our new baby. Gigglebytes galore. I'm so excited...
This log is #1 now if you google 'tzaddi'. Guess I should update it more often :P
Somehow my finger has been chopped off. Third finger, right hand, between first and second knuckle.
First weird thing is, I'm walking around with a paper plate of food, nibbling and talking. And the end of my finger is on my plate. I'm thinking how disgusting that is, and picking food from around it.
Next weird thing is: the fingernail is painted red. I don't paint my nails.
Finally, the amputated finger is warped at the end, but it is growing a new nail.
I should dream more often.
Hmm how do I get a job that pays me to live all over the world? On anthropologists working for Intel:
Simply put, their job is to hang out in foreign countries (read non-American) and find out what makes people tick.
To be more precise, they visit people who may be future Intel consumers to find out how they use, or would use, technology.
For the past two years, Bell said she has lived in a hundred households in 19 cities across seven countries – Australia, India, Malaysia, Indonesia, China, South Korea and Singapore.
While still analysing her haul of data, Bell said the most obvious finding was that people are not the same the world over.
For instance, Americans are trained to think that the individual is important but that’s not the case in other cultures where the smallest unit of social importance might be a village.
Asians also live in less space than their American counterparts so a wireless network box for an American household could cover three families, if the same box is used in, say, Singapore.
Finally got around to installing mt-blacklist. I hadn't made it a priority until one spammer in particular kept me a little too busy deleting her posts.
If I'd realized how painless it would be to install I would have done it ages ago.