It is totally crazy how fast this little but ice cold creek winds through the beginning of the park. People enjoy surfing although officially prohibited.
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That's how i'll remember you. Rest in peace!
Leo Pot † July 4th, 2008
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It is totally crazy how fast this little but ice cold creek winds through the beginning of the park. People enjoy surfing although officially prohibited.
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Seems Network Solutions runs a year early:
Domain Name: ALISTAPART.COM
Registrar: NETWORK SOLUTIONS, LLC.
Updated Date: 13-may-2008
Creation Date: 07-may-1998
Expiration Date: 06-may-2009
I wonder how anyone can still trust this company. Time to move to a different registrar i'd say.
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Not only is this dialog silly, but it actually was displayed in a never ending loop when updating my Adobe CS3 Design Standard Suite today. I closed all my open Apps except the Adobe Updater and clicked OK in the silly dialog above and it would constantly re-display this dialog... Adobe: next time double check your dialog localisation - or maybe add a #todo tag in the Dialog-Title so you spot these before release ;-)
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All 2007
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For your Enjoyment, here's a little AppleScript which plays the Enclosure (type Video/QuickTime or Audio/Mpeg) of the current selection in QuickTime Player. If you're like me and don't automaticaly download enclosures, this helps you save the hassle of Copying the URL and pasting it into QT Player or such.
Installation:
Download the Script, unzip it and move it into NetNewsWire's Scripts-Folder (~Library/Application Support/NetNewsWire/Scripts/). Done.
This comes especially handy, if you add a Keyboard Shortcut for the Script in the Keyboard & Mouse System Preferences like so:
Enjoy.
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Freshest Tuna
Dessert
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Once again, Twitter.com is in maintenance-mode. Hopefully -- as usually -- for the win.
There's one thing i realized which really puzzles me. It is the way, they serve their temporary maintenance page (pictured in parts in the screenshot to the left).
This time (i haven't checked this during any of their downtimes before), they publish their temporary page in an extremely stupid way:
Twitter is serving a 404 status for every URL on twitter.com. The page you see during maintenance is a customized 404 "Not Found" error page. The 404 HTTP status means, that the url you tried to access doesn't exist and you should never use this url again, as it is bogus. This is not very clever. Now you can argue how important a proper google-index for twitter.com is, but even if you'd not care about google (and any other search engine) throwing every twitter-page out of it's index due to the 404 the crawler gets with every request, it still is wrong. HTTP statuses are there for a reason and serving a 404 during maintenance is not what the 404 status was meant to be used for.
The proper way to handle this would be to do a temporary redirect by serving a 307 or, even better, simply serve the maintenance page with a 503 status, which is the perfect fit for a maintenance. HTTP Status 503 stands for "Service Unavailable" which is exactly what is happening during a maintenance break.
Serving a 503 would deal with search engines nicely and clients like Twitterrific could also nicely parse it and inform the user correctly. For instance hahlo.com is momentarily just serving black frames, making their users believe something is wrong with hahlo. Pockettweets on my iPhone also confuses the user as Mobile Safari is simply alerting the user about too many redirects.
Hopefully someone from twitter will read this and not make the same mistake again in the future.
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Wouldn't this be a natural fit? Why would i trade in my 40GB generation X iPod for a 16GB touchpod and loose half of my multimedia library?
So here's hoping for iPod touch 1.1 with harddisk, bluetooth and reduced price ;-)
PS: watching the Stevenote, it makes me really, really sad to watch grown up people (older than 40) freak out over a ringtones feature. What has the world come to?
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Justin Mason of SpamAssassin fame recently published a perl-script on his blog, he developed to check health of some of his servers using perl and posting alerts to Jaiku.
Since i use twitter, i modified his script to post alerts and extended the functionality a bit. The script cureently only checks webservers via HEAD requests. If a host does not respond, it posts an alert to a given Twitter account, remembers the host and will post a host-up notification to twitter, should the host come up again.
The benefit of this is, that you can get Tweets via SMS providing you a nice 24/7 monitoring solution. In order to receive SMS alerts, you basically need 2 twitter accounts. One where you send the alerts to and a second one which you use to follow the first one in order to receive notifications vis SMS (as you can't receive notifications from your own account, this is not possible using just one account).
The script is usually run by cron. To run it, you need Perl and the Perl LWP module as well as a configuratio-file which is described in the header of the perl-script.
Download checkandtwitter.pl V 0.2 here and enjoy.
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Then you might experience the same problem i had which has an easy solution:
This will clear all Calculator cache files of which one was obviously corrupted in my case.
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