Recently my handcrafted theme broke *tear* for reasons unknown to me, but every thing past the «/head» tag just wouldn’t show. It shows up in other themes as you can see but just not in mine. I haven’t changed anything except the addition and removal of a JavaScript but it worked fine with it in there. It might just be a plugin that’s doing some funky jazz up in my server but that’s still under investigation.
25
Jun
(Temporary) New Look
I recently, and when I say recently I mean a month or two back decided I’d try out Google’s Analytics. However after over a month I never saw any results. Since it wasn’t a priority issue, I neglected it until now. After searching the help docs, videos and forums I found that I wasn’t the only one with this issue. And it wasn’t entirely due to my incompetence. On the instruction page where it tells you where to put the script on the pages you want to track they tell you to place the code directly above the </body> tag.
You are instructed to place the code above the </body> tag.
I thought this was an odd practice but I figured Google knew what they were doing, so I did as instructed. However after watching, and re-watching very closely their here, that it is in fact supposed to be placed directly above the tag.
I change this today and notified them on the forums because it was a complete and utter farce to try and send them and email directly about the issue. So hopefully this will reduce the amount of questions they have on this issue, and in 24hs I might actually be able to see may first report after a little over a month of waiting.
UPDATE: Apparently Google’s implementation of the script on to the page should work. They do it to prevent page lag, due to the script contacting Google’s servers. Allowing the page to load, and if there are any errors it doesn’t disrupt and can die in the background.
03
Jun
“Binged”
Just read a tweet from @campphotoshop
and this totally imaginary, yet plausible, conversation came to mind:
[ antwep48 Connected ]
greg18759> Hey man how’d that date go last night?
greg18759> It was great, we were totally clcked
antwep48 > That’s awesome
greg18759> *clicked
antwep48 > What else did you two do?
greg18759> went to a movie, did some tech shopping, and then went back
to her place and binged all night, it was awesome
antwep48 > No way! a little tmi but okay
antwep48 > I really need to get out more…
greg18759> tmi? Oh, no I meant bing, you know that new thing Microsoft came out with?
[ greg18759 Disconnected ]
greg18759> Hey man how’d that date go last night?
greg18759> It was great, we were totally clcked
antwep48 > That’s awesome
greg18759> *clicked
antwep48 > What else did you two do?
greg18759> went to a movie, did some tech shopping, and then went back
to her place and binged all night, it was awesome
antwep48 > No way! a little tmi but okay
antwep48 > I really need to get out more…
greg18759> tmi? Oh, no I meant bing, you know that new thing Microsoft came out with?
[ greg18759 Disconnected ]
Needless to say being a tech nerd myself I’ve “Binged” a few things, including myself… check it out, and Bing someone you love.
22
May
Ninja Entry!
After seeing the Ninja Entry! on reddit via @grahamenglish I decided to create a SVG of the sign so I could use it elsewhere, and I decided I’d share. Enjoy
It’s an Inkscape SVG there’s also a (PNG version).
05
May
What’s Goin’ On
Currently I have migrated my current server to a more energy efficient one with and UPC, and I’m in the midst of configuring a mail server to make things easier when Thrill The World starts to happen. More to come
If your anyone like me and download quite a bit you probably have an external drive. I Use mine for storing videos, music, and bulkier files that I just don’t need on my laptop when I’m on the go. But when I’m at home and I feel like watching a movie before I hit the sack or even just to relax I normally use the VLC player. Works with pretty much every file I’ve come to encounter and you can stream stuff to other clients. However the draw back of using VLC is the remote. You have to set up your playlist prior, and when the movie ends you wind up back at your desktop. Which kind of annoying when you’re trying to sleep at this point and the room lights up again…
I like front row, it allows you to play your iTunes library, browse trailers of upcoming movies, music videos, and television shows; and with it’s HTPC-esk navigation system it’s easy to do with the Apple Remote (and even sleep your computer when your done).
So I’ve decided to through to together this little walkthrough for the not-so-tech-savy. It’s easy, and prevents you from having to keep those files on your main hard disk. I’d rate this a 3/10 on the difficulty scale. Continue reading ‘Access Your External Drive Files in Front Row’
18
Apr
Amanda Fucking Palmer
I saw this earlier today, and what can I say I was “put in my place” so to speak. I had never actually sat and thought about this but, now I realize the Sun really isn’t that big after all…
I’m all about the world of the unknown and pretty open minded to theories of the universe. But when I saw this it kinda put things into perspective. Most people can understand vastness of the universe and that it’s and endless, continually expanding mass. But do they really? I was one of those people. Sure you see pictures of the solar system, Milky Way galaxy, and pictures of far off stars and nebulae. But they are rarely, if ever, compared to us, and the planet Earth. Needless to say after seeing this, saying that we are specs is a mere understatement, IMO. I don’t know I’m just finding it hard put it into words, but check it out (I also really like the music, so if you know it, hit me up):
The Size of Our World: Special Edition
Finally have my MBP up and running via Boot Camp with the latest build of Windows 7 (7048), it all seems pretty smooth. Although the touch pad is pretty crappy in Windows, doesn’t recognize taps as nicely as Mac OS X does, but I have a USB mouse to deal with that. Although set to expire in August of this year (rumour has it) I plan to see what I can and can’t do. Although Firefox does act up on it. It will lock up the entire system and I’m forced to do a hard reboot (hold power button down). Sadly I also realized that I formated my external HDD as a HFS+ and thus have no access to it *sigh*. So I’ll have to back up format it and then try again. 32GB is SOOO not enough for a Windows 7 partion. After a clean install I’m already sitting at just over 14GB! However I knew it would be big, just not that big. I’m also still trying ti figure out why Wordpress refuses to let me use “SEO happy” permalinks in my URL, and it’s quite frustrating… Gonna have to do some more forum trolling.
EDIT: Feeds and Permalinks now working (b^.^)b
Have been a while since my last post I decided I would document some of my findings and share them with the world. Recently joining twitter and pretty much loving it, my eyes have been opened to so many sources on the web that I just would have never found otherwise. With that being said here are a few that tickled my fancy.