My view of the world and anything that might interest me.
I received this R1000.00 Adwords gift from Google and since I have never checked Google’s Ad stuff out I decided to give it a try.
Also decided to try their Adsense thingy, that is why you see ads to the right and if you get this via a feed, at the bottom. Maybe, just maybe, somebody click on it and I will get a cent coming my way in a couple for year when it is big enough for Google to make a payment.
I have 3 blogs and upgrading them was a mixed bag this time around. On my blog at http://www.mariusb.net/blog/, I used the automatic WordPress upgrade and that went flawless. With my second blog at http://www.marius.za.net/blog/, I used the upgrade with the CPANEL of the hosting company and again the upgrade went as expected. I use both these blogs as testing ground and not my main blog. So having upgraded both those, I ventured into upgrading this one.
It was problems from the start. The first problem I ran into was:Download failed.: name lookup timed out
This was something to do with curl and following http://wordpress.org/support/topic/225535 (at the bottom) and installing the Core Control Plugin and following the directions, I managed to get the ZIP file downloaded.
The next problem I ran into was something about the ZIP file that cannot be UNZIPed. I could not find a resolution for this so went the route of manually upgrading my blog. This went as expected and my blog seem to be working. If you do find things that does not work as it should be then please let me know. With all the issues, I do not know whether I trust the upgrade.
On the outside everything looks good but in the admin part I get the following when it tries to retrieve feeds for the DASHBOARD:Fatal error: Please call SimplePie_Cache::create() instead of the constructor in /home/mariusb/public_html/blog/wp-includes/class-feed.php on line 13
I have not managed to find a solution for this. Suggestion will be appreciated.
Having done lots of WP installs and upgrades, I must say that this one is the most problematic and error prone. I am sure an update will come out soon, so my suggestion is that you do not upgrade just yet.
I have a fresh install of Ubuntu 9.04, Jaunty on a Lenovo T60 and since the beginning sound was muted after login. The drum roll happen at the GDM login screen but no login sound. Yesterday I eventually found a solution for it.
The solution was comment out line 372 in /etc/init.d/alsa-utils. The line in question was ‘mute_and_zero_levels “$TARGET_CARD” || EXITSTATUS=1’. Just this small change has solved the issue for me.
Now to be honest, I have no idea what the purpose of this line is and whether any other issues might crop up by commenting out this line. Well, sofar I have found no regressions by commenting out the line.
After the wet weather we had in Cape Town over the last week or so, it was a glorious sunny day today. A mother and her son was making use of the sun in the veld just outside my place. One could see that the little boy only started to walk a while ago since he fell down every couple of steps.
He enjoyed his time so much, when it came time to go home, he was not a happy chappy and had to be carried home crying.
More photos can be found here.
One of my favourite cartoonists is Hugh MacLeod and today he had a gem again.
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I have not blogged in a while but am still alive (well, I am breathing 🙂 )
Firstly I do not have much to say at the moment. Am going through some things and have to make some decisions which can go any direction depending on the day.
At work I have started on a new journey, it is a area that is totally new to me and a whole new learning experience. Almost starting from zero at the age of 50, who would have believed. Currently the job involves being on the phone most of the day with people in US and India and they being a couple of time-zones apart, is a real challenge.
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Sometime nature can just be wonderful .. with the setting sun we got an amazing rainbow. This rainbow stretched from one side to the other but as a learning photographer with no wide-angle lens yet, I totally forgot to take a series of photos to stitch together for a panoramic. Hey this is the way one learns. Here are some of the photos.
I got this aeroplane flying in front, through :), behind the rainbow. It was a quick “mik” and shoot so it is a bit blurry but I got the plane.
Start of the rainbow
middle
and end of the rainbow.
Full set can be found here in my gallery.
Yesterday, when there was a break in the whether, I took a drive to an area just outside Durbanville to go take some photos. It was an overcast day which is perfect for photography. Here are some of my photos. I did no post processing on the photos. People familiar with the area will immediately recognise the area.
Love the contrast between the old and new.
With autumn, the colours in the vineyards are just amazing.
And found some wildlife just next to the road.
More photos from this shoot can be found here: Durbanville – 20090517
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There is a lot of talk going on about UbuntuOne. All I have to say is that the Ubuntu trademark belongs to Canonical and they can do with it what they want to. Also they are a business and surely they have the right to make money, and if that is by using their own trademark, why not.
However today I want to ask why I should use UbuntuOne instead of DropBox. I have not used UbuntuOne yet, still waiting on my invite, so this is based on what I have read. UbuntuOne only support Linux and to be more specific Ubuntu. Also I could not gather how seamless it is integrated into Nautiuls. I have been using Dropbox now for a while and has just worked perfectly. I can share files with Windows and/or Mac users. When I run out of my free space on Dropbox I can upgrade and it seems to be cheaper than what UbuntuOne offers.
Dropbox is not perfect. I would like to see better KDE support .. yes one can get it working but it is not nicely integrated. Also I would like to see the possibility to sync more than one folder.
So for the time being I am a happy Dropbox user.
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Nou weet ek hoekom sekere mense blog. Vanoggend op Wall Street Business Report gesien en ek haal aan:
Hey pa as jy hierdie lees, bel my asseblief op my UK nommer . Te broke om airtime op foon te laai.
Al, dis seker een manier om ‘n boodskap gestuur te kry 🙂