Weird WebStuffFizicks

There is probably some simple explanation behind this video. The question is whether there is some reasonable explanation for the video.

But I'm feeling much better now.I've Too Many Posts

When I atart to type in a title to a post there is a drop down box of titles I've used before. Some of which I have no clue what they are about. I've made 2251 posts (not including this one) in the past 5 years. I may have to go back and read them all again, or not.

VideoPart Of A Seesmic Conversation

Response to a question Howard Rheingold asked on Seesmic.

Yep that's the real me.

Not Having The Best of Days?

If your thinking that your not having the best of days, think about this: Thieves stole the servers that housed the Peter Gabriel website Sunday night or Monday morning. That's right they physically stole the servers.

The majority of Real World, Peter Gabriel and WOMAD web services are currently off-line. Our servers were stolen from our ISP's data centre on Sunday night - Monday morning. We are working to restore normal service as soon as possible.

Our first move has been to get our store up and running, so if you want WOMAD Charlton Park tickets or Music from Real World Records, we are back in business.

If you have a server fail, it is pretty easy to get it back up and running, as long as it is still in the building. There is a reason the phone company office look like bank vaults. Isn't time for you to check on how secure the server farm where your websites are located?

FYIThe Future Will Not Come From The Big Corporation

The future will not come from the big corporation. The problem with the behemoth company is that it takes large amounts of cash and time to get them to turn even the smallest corner. If you have access to a few tools you can make the future. Check out TechShop in this boingboing TV episode.

Tech OverloadPHP Blues

I never could do much with the C programming language. Every time I would start a project I would have to write a number of routines to handle strings. I get frustrated by having to spend my times writing tools when I could be writing applications. I'm having somewhat the same issue with PHP at the moment. Spending all my time trying to figure out what I have and why I always am a module short when it comes to writing code.

I may have been spoiled by using the .net environment and Visual Studio with all the bells and whistles. I just haven't found the enviroment for really making it easy for building web applications using the LAMP technologies.

I've been writing C# web apps as well as C# windows apps for a number of years now. I may have purchased two books on C# to get started. I must now have a least a dozen PHP books. Every single one of which requires the installation of a third part module just to get stuff done. I'm not a happy camper.

PhotographyOpposite Bank

Opposite Bank

After the rain today I made a last minute dash down to the river just as the sun was setting. I would love to try to get to the other side of the river someday but I think it is private property. Nice piece of last it is. One of the few places around here that is not knee deep in zero lot line housing.

Common SenseGuilt By Association Or Will Condi Waive the No Fly List Next Time You Travel?

It appears that Nelson Mandela, former leader of South Africa, is on the infamous No Fly List. He is on the list by association with African National Congress.

During an appearance before lawmakers, US Secretary of State Condi Rice lamented that she was grappling with "a rather embarrassing matter" - that Mandela and the African National Congress (ANC) are logged in the US government database as terrorists banned from travelling to the US!

How many times has Mandela and the top brass of the ANC landed on American soil? Countless, but as Rice explained, she has to waive the ban each time they traveled! [Link]

This story from the 16th of April just made the morning news on WXRT radio (as a side story) on May 1st. According to the story this morning Congress will vote on a resolution to have his name removed from the list.

So Homeland Security or the State Department or somebody can put anybody on the No Fly list but it takes an act of Congress to get someone off the list. There is something really really wrong with this logic.

Guilt by association is not a good thing. As it is we should all be on the no fly list because at one time we were all teenagers and you know how irrational teenagers and their raging hormones are.

But I'm feeling much better now.Some Day

There will come a time in the next 50 years when everyone will have been born in the Rock and Roll era. At dinner tonight the lady at the table behind me (somewhere past 60 I would guess) knew all the words to the Eagles song that was playing. I'm not sure what that means. There once was a time when hearing a rock and roll song on television was a rare thing. Not any more.

MoviesWatching Mario Karts

Mario Karts from Jim Roberts on Vimeo.

Here is the video I made yesterday. Trying out the Vimeo Video Site. It took quite a while to have the movie converted at the website. Not quite sure how long as I went to bed before it was done last night. The movie is not the greatest as I just recorded off the screen. Could not get to the video outputs on my 300 pound famliy room TV. I can wait to replace the behemoth with an LCD.