Pretty funny. I have friends who work at the W3C. They will get a kick out of this!
The Finnish ISP Mikkelin Puhelin is blocking access to the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) site, describing it as child porn.
A friend of mine sent me this. (Sorry not posting much. On vacation this week.)
One morning the husband returns after several hours of fishing and decides to take a nap. Although not familiar with the lake, the wife decides to take the boat out. She motors out a short distance, anchors, and reads her book.
Along comes a Game Warden in his boat. He pulls up alongside the woman and says, ‘Good morning, Ma’am. What are you doing?’
‘Reading a book,’ she replies, (thinking, ‘Isn’t that obvious?’).
‘You’re in a Restricted Fishing Area,’ he informs her.
‘I’m sorry, officer, but I’m not fishing. I’m reading’.
‘Yes, but you have all the equipment. For all I know you could start at any moment. I’ll have to take you in and write you up.’
‘For reading a book,’ she replies.
‘You’re in a Restricted Fishing Area,’ he informs her again.
‘I’m sorry, officer, but I’m not fishing. I’m reading’.
‘Yes, but you have all the equipment. For all I know you could start at any moment. I’ll have to take you in and write you up.’
‘If you do that, I’ll have to charge you with Sexual assault,’ says the woman.
‘But I haven’t even touched you,’ says the game warden.
‘That’s true, but you have all the equipment. For all I know you could start at any moment.’
‘Have a nice day ma’am,’ and he left.
MORAL: Never argue with a woman who reads. It’s likely she can also think.
Sep 162008
Funny picture — especially if you are a fan of LOLCats.
You know, in tech writing you find some pretty silly examples of poorly translated warning labels and paragraphs. Here are some from general products.
Humor at it’s very best. This article exposes the stupidity of the manufacturers. We know, they need to cover their own asses… but can they go to this extent??
This sounds like something out of the “Pre Crime” division from Minority Report…
The new technology is, to its critics, Orwellian. Others view it as a silver bullet against terrorism that could render waterboarding and other harsh interrogation methods obsolete. Some scientists predict the end of lying as we know it.
A friend of mine sent me this XKCD comic because he knew about a time Map Quest tried to send me and a friend over a non-existent ferry. After that, I wouldn’t be surprised to get directions that talk about climbing a cliff.
Sep 122008
Everyone has been hearing about hurricane Ike heading towards Texas and that all of the oil refineries will have to be shut down for a little while. Gas on the way to wokr this morning was 3.59. When I got off work, the gas stations said $4.09.
My friend in Tennessee said that the gas prices went up by a dollar over night: $4.51 per gallon. This is insane!
At least North Carolina has an anti-gouging laws. According the WUNC, the governor’s office receive 425 complaints of price gouging.
According to Slashdot, this bill also creates “Copyright Cops” with the ability to seize any machine or data used in (or suspected of use in) copyright infringement.
The Senate Judicial Committee has approved with some modifications the troublesome Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights Act of 2008. As it stands, the bill would still deputize the Justice Department to bring civil suits on behalf of Big Content—and then pass any monetary awards won as a result.
Sep 122008
A while back, I documented the trouble I had using MacJournal with WordPress. I have never gotten the silly program to work with WordPress. Ashame, really, because MacJournal is a nice looking application.
This week I purchased a copy of the Back to School bundle from Mac Update. MacJournal, and about 10 other applications, came with the bundle. Nice set of software.
Some time this weekend I’m going to try and get MacJournal 5 to work with WordPress 2.6. I’ll post my results here.
September 16, 2008 update
I followed the settings described by Oscargodson in the comments below. I was able to connect to my blog and to post a simple text entry.
I was able to download entries from my blog successfully. I’m documenting what I did here since searching for “download” in the user guide for MacJournal did not return any hits.
There are some quirks with this command. Choosing “All” does not actually get all of the posts — it seems to max out at the number entered in “number of entries.” I had to enter a considerably higher number and use the Download Entries from Blog command multiple times.
Using Download Entries from Blog more than once does not create multiple entries. The program is smart enough to only download entries that do not exist in the local MacJournal database.
I had two draft entries saved on my blog. When downloaded, these entries appeared at the bottom of the entries to a date of November 29, 1999 — four and a half years before my blog was active. (It makes sense that MacJournal would not be sure what to do with draft entries. After all, most users would be using MacJournal to write blog entries and would be saving draft entries locally.)
To download entries after your blog successfully connects:
- Choose Download Entries from Blog from the Journal menu.
- Enter the username and password for your blog.
- Choose the number of entries to download or select All.
- Press OK to retrieve up to the specified number of entries.
I’ve just modified this post. I’m going to see if MacJournal will realize the post has been updated.
Update: Using the Download command, MacJournal does not update posts that have been modified using the blog’s web interface. (Basically no diff is performed to verify that the ones on the local machine are the latest.) If you delete an entry from the local database, using the Download Entries from Journal will not retrieve the entry.
It was also disappointing to realize that tags and categories are not downloaded. It might be different if I tried importing entries using the Import … Entries command from the File menu.
Sep 112008
The guy I purchased the Acer Aspire One from Craigslist also had an OS X desktop system available. He originally quoted me a very good price. However, from the time I bought the Aspire One to when I emailed a few days later about the desktop system, the price had gone up by $150. The system specs were okay, but the sudden price increase put me off.
I decided not to get the pre-built system. I figured I could get a much better system for about the same price — assuming I’m willing to install the operating system and can actually get it running.
After work on Monday, a fellow conspirator and I went to Tiger Direct to pick up a hard drive for him. I wanted to look for a bag for the Acer Aspire — all of my bags are way too big. Any way, I ended up coming home with enough stuff to build a system with much better specs. I ended up paying about $600 for $700 worth of stuff (manager took $100 off of the Shuttle bare bones system display model so it was $250 instead of $349).
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