Time to get all meta. This blog, funwithstuff, and all the other little subsites like Twelve Fives, byscooter and secondlife are all now happily archived by the Australian National Library at this address. Or they will be, once this post is spidered. Hmm.
Maybe I’ll change the links in the template instead.
FTP is a strange beast. For a protocol that predates the web’s http, it’s amazing how often today it doesn’t work. I use Panic’s Transmit most often, and Panic do good work.
Sometimes though, Transmit fails, for no good reason. When it does, I usually revert back to the command line ftp program in the Terminal. It’s archaic, but I learnt to use it at university many moons ago and I’m glad to have the option.
If that fails too, I smell a rat. This protocol should have been perfected by now, and somehow someone’s either sent me the wrong login details or is using a non-standard server. It’s happened twice now.
So, the workaround: use the Finder. It’s basic, but it connected without any problems, instead of weird error messages. Remember the Finder next time ftp falls over.
Let’s feed Google.
Setting up MySQL + phpMyAdmin + a CMS on Mac OS X 10.4.4 and up? #2002 error? Ah…
MySQL AB :: MySQL Forums :: Database Administration :: Re: #2002 – The server is not responding
“Re: #2002 – The server is not responding
Posted by: Geoff Ellis (IP Logged)
Date: March 08, 2006 05:27AMTo the people on Mac OS X 10.4.4 and up
During the 10.4.4 OS update, Apple have changed where PHP looks for the MySQL socket file.
You can correct this by:
$ sudo mkdir /var/mysql
$ sudo ln -s /tmp/mysql.sock /var/mysql/mysql.sockGood Luck
Geoff”
Go Geoff!
Hey! Synchronicity! Just talking about voice changing software, and it gets released. Story at Eurogamer. Changes gender, age, etc., seems to do an OK job. Hmmmmm.
So I’ve finally reworked my mother’s website: Rian Anderson | The Odd Ball Knit Book, mostly about the book I designed for her last year. (Online ordering coming soon!) Take a peek, tell me if it’s broken in IE6 (it really shouldn’t be, but I haven’t yet made it to a PC to test it on) and vote on what the background image should be, rather than the flat dark grey I stuck in during development and haven’t shifted yet. Probably subtly wooly.
Oh, and by “vote” I mean… leave comments here.
Since I’m bleathering on the forums, thought I’d spread the bleather here:
SL Forums – Disguised voice chat: “Love SL. The one thing which really gets to me is the time it can take to ‘talk’ through a keyboard. Simply speaking is much faster; I could type for an hour or speak the same content in ten minutes. Skype-like functionality could revolutionise SL.
Obviously, anonymity has to be part of the SL experience, but that’s possible. If you have a Mac, try Garageband — it allows live voice changing effects to be applied, including gender changing and other modfications.
It probably wouldn’t be feasible everywhere, at least at first, but it would make a big difference in the long run. It could also bring a great many new residents — why just call someone when you can meet them in SL for a virtual drink instead?
Thoughts?”
Enjoy this: A Terrifying Message from Al Gore. Featuring Al Gore and Bender in the best promo for a documentary ever.
It’s been going around the blogworld, but if you haven’t seen it already, do check out BumpTop 3D Desktop Prototype. Rather than a useful place to store files (I can’t organise a real desktop of any kind) I would like to use something like this as a launcher/widgetboard, something like the Dock + Dashboard. Maybe desktop too, if I can see filenames more easily. Regardless, big thumbs up to the UI innovations shown here.
Last night’s football between Australia and Italy was a crushing way to go out — a penalty against Australia in the last seven seconds of the game. A soft penalty at that. Despite what the article says, Australia had most of the possession, but couldn’t get past the watertight Italian defence. Really, though, I can’t see Italy winning the big prize (nor would Australia have, had they won this).
Italy now go on to play Ukraine, after an apparently dire match concluding with Switzerland failing to score a single penalty. Have a glance through The Guardian’s minute-by-minute report, if only to read the comments (straying into the plot of the concurrent Miss Marple) and the author begging someone, anyone, to score. Compare and constrast with the dull minute-by-minutes posted by the New York Times: Switzerland-Ukraine and Italy-Australia.
With thanks to a regular visitor to this blog whose true identity remains, as yet, unknown, please enjoy this fabulous little short: animator.