Running your own server and writing your own scripts is really tough work. Now I need to go learn about HackTool.Linux.ProcHider.a.
Archive for July, 2007
Considering the incredible popularity of my previous post on the 6th Harry Potter book, I knew I had to post something about the 7th when I read an interesting story about its delivery at Kottke.org. Essentially, Amazon.com offered guaranteed release-date delivery:
If you qualified for guaranteed Release-Date Delivery, in the unlikely event that you don’t receive it on Saturday, July 21, we’ll refund the cost of the book. … All copies that qualified for Release-Date Delivery should be delivered by 7:00 p.m. in your time zone.
But when UPS didn’t make the deadline, they added an excuse to the tracking site:
NOTICE LEFT
They claimed that they attempted to make a delivery, but nobody was home. I wonder how many people bought the excuse and blamed themselves! Fortunately, Amazon.com did honor their refund promise. Presumably the people who received the book late get to keep the copy they got, so I wonder how much this is costing them. I guess it wasn’t too widespread, and mostly occurred in far away places scattered around the US.
Here’s the neat box they shipped in. Kind of makes me wish I’d gotten it.
I spent a few hours trying to find this, and now that I’ve found it, I feel rather stupid. I kept reading about an audio import module for Drupal which works with the Audio module to allow users to import audio files already on the server. That means large audio files (greater than 2 or 4 MB) could be uploaded via FTP and then imported. I looked all over the Drupal website and tried a bunch of searches on Google and Yahoo, to no avail. Finally I gave up and decided I’d just upload the file. I looked in the audio directory, and there it was! Audio import! It was under my nose the whole time, under Modules. Here’s what it looks like there:
How to type punctuation on the iPhone with just one gesture.
Click and hold .?123, then slide that same finger over to a punctuation mark. Lift your finger.
The punctuation mark is typed and you’re back to your alphabetical keyboard. Continue reading ‘iPhone Typing Tips’
Here’s a quote which I found quite striking.
You can buy a half- liter Evian for $1.35–17 ounces of water imported from France for pocket change. That water seems cheap, but only because we aren’t paying attention. In San Francisco, the municipal water comes from inside Yosemite National Park. It’s so good the EPA doesn’t require San Francisco to filter it. If you bought and drank a bottle of Evian, you could refill that bottle once a day for 10 years, 5 months, and 21 days with San Francisco tap water before that water would cost $1.35. Put another way, if the water we use at home cost what even cheap bottled water costs, our monthly water bills would run $9,000.
It’s really important to go out and search for answers for yourself, if your parents or teachers don’t know the answer. Email professors or teachers or whomever you think can help you achieve your goals. Also, make good use of your spare time because it really adds up to a lot. If you’re waiting at the bus stop or in a restaurant, bring a library book or a textbook. Don’t waste your time.
I heard about the Palm Foleo on one of Lao Laporte’s podcasts, so I looked up Palm and checked it out. It’s very intriguing. If you haven’t seen it yet, take a look.
The Palm Foleo is basically a very small laptop. The appealing thing to me is that it runs Linux. I love small laptops. It’s a market I’ve always felt has been underappreciated and missed by most companies. When I first heard about the Toshiba Libretto nearly 10 years ago, I was hooked. I never actually got one, but I read lots about it and drooled over it for weeks. I hunted for a cheap one on eBay and visited pretty much every single website about the mini-laptop.
The point is that I like to travel and I like to take my computer with me. In that sense, Palm is absolutely right.
Continue reading ‘How the Palm Foleo is as great as the iPhone’
This seems to be a factual error in an otherwise very excellent review of the Apple iPhone: Continue reading ‘Rearranging Bookmarks on the iPhone’
I converted a MythBusters DVD to iPhone format for personal viewing. HandBrake is awesome.
The feature is there. The interface is slick. My default mail account is setup. But I’ve tried it three (3) times now, and I still have yet to see any email from my iPhone. What’s going on? Am I just missing the email, or has anyone else had trouble with sending photos with the iPhone?
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