Posts Tagged ‘Technology’
the progression of the internet is funny
Posted by Erin | Filed under General
Benny just published a post on her site about WP and caching. It makes me chuckle to think about, because essentially the web has come full-circle.
The web was first populated by sites that were all static html pages.
Then, someone thought of using databases and a whole bunch of other neat things to make websites “dynamic” – meaning, you didn’t have to spend hours tediously re-writing static html to make a change across your whole site.
Then, these dynamic sites were great, but if the site was popular, then you needed to back it up with a shit-ton of hardware and load balancing and etc, etc in case you had a lot of visitors.
Now, caching (turning the dynamic site back into simple static html) keeps sites light and serving to millions of visitors.
Strange, innit?
Blackberry
Posted by Erin | Filed under General
So, my Blackberry, the phone-that-does-everything that I wanted for so long, is now pissing me off. I’ve had it for a little over a year and I’m finding it less useful and more annoying every day.
- Despite setting the option to save new photos to the media card, the camera still saves them to “Device Memory”
- If a picture fails to upload (no matter the application) I cannot get it to upload using any other application, even after rebooting (forcing me to download the picture via the USB connection if I want to post it somewhere)
- Can’t find any decent (and free) personal time management apps
- Can’t find any decent (and free) budgeting apps
- I get shit for cell phone signal at my apartment, which drains the battery abnormally fast, not to mention I can’t even make phone calls, and 3G? HA! forget it
- I pay $100/month just for my phone. Which I can’t use half the time (see above)
- WordPress app is now apparently only available via “Blackberry App World” so I just had to download and install a completely new app to update one I already had
When my contract is up, I think I’m just going to go back to a basic, non-smart, cheap-as-I-can-get phone.
WordPress for Blackberry
Posted by Erin | Filed under General
Just installed the new WordPress app on my Blackberry. This should prove to be fun.
Already found at least 1 problem, not all of my ‘Pages’ show up in the page list. Seems like it picked 5 random ones out of the 16 I have (total, I have 6 published, 6 drafts, and 4 private).
Longing for a simpler time.
Posted by Erin | Filed under Uncategorized
Remember when all websites were just text and hyperlinks and maybe a few images? Now everybody has to have some crazy php-based content management system application (yeah, yeah, pot-kettle-black, I know). Working in the webhosting industry and specifically, in Security, has really made me long for those simpler times again. Sure, editing html is tedious and time-consuming, but its pretty rock-solid safe once its web-accessible. Nobody can exploit flaws in your plain html code to send spam, upload phishing sites, or kill other webservers.
Car Annoyances
Posted by Erin | Filed under Uncategorized
Bart purchased an after-market alarm/remote start for my car back in August. We ordered 3 remotes (1 two way and 2 one way). The 3rd remote wouldn’t program. After a few weeks of fiddling with it, the guy who installed it finally got it programed, in the 4th remote ‘slot’, and the general consensus is that slot 3 doesn’t work.
A couple days ago, I was taking a nap and Bart was up working at his desk, and my remote started going off, like someone was trying to break into the car. He rushed out, but didn’t find anything suspicious at the time. We figured someone just lifted one of the door handles to see if it was locked, and ran away when the alarm went off.
Tonight when I got home, I got out of my car, locked it, and went inside. By the time I kicked my shoes off at the front door, my remote started beeping, and the shock sensor icon was on. I put my shoes back on and went back out. The alarm didn’t seem to be going off, but as I was standing there, the shock sensor gave warning chirps like someone bumped the car. Nothing was touching it. It wasn’t windy, and there were no trucks rumbling by.
I’m starting to grow very suspect of this alarm unit. My remote has also randomly rebooted itself on several occasions, despite the battery icon showing ‘full’.