Sorry for the Ads

Monday, 21 April 2008 16:54

Yes - I suck.

I have succumb to the ads mongrel. I'm sorry. If an ad actually interests you, please click - otherwise, ignore them. I'm only trying to make a little change to help offset the costs of the site.

Thanks.

Massive Tech Show

Monday, 21 April 2008 16:14

I've been confirmed to assist in representing The Joomla! Users Group - Toronto. I'll be at booth 816 
(www.massivetechshow.com/tor08/documents/floorplan_tor08.pdf). Please, come by and say hello. 

AND - just for visiting my site, I have an evite for you. (www.massivetechshow.com/evites/tor08/joomla.html)

Enjoy!

The Top 17 Google Gags, Hoaxes, and Easter Eggs: Gmail Paper, Languages and Google Gulp

Thursday, 17 April 2008 11:40

Got an email from PCWorld - The Top 17 Google Gags, Hoaxes, and Easter Eggs: Gmail Paper, Languages and Google Gulp.

It's actually funny to read all the different Google gags from past years.

Check it out at PCWorld.

The ID3 Tag Quest

Wednesday, 16 April 2008 20:22

I've got a fair collection of mp3's most were acquired before ID3 tags were popular and I'm darned if I'm going to redo them all. So I used musicbrainz to retag all my mp3.. Wow - it got most of them but I found one flaw - there doesn't seem to be a standard for the genre's.

One might be: "Rock", or "rock" or even "Rock and Roll" or "Rock & Roll", All of which show up as different genre's on my IPod. I'm a big fan of genre's only because I may be in the mode for rock, dance, classic, or metal depending on my mood.

So - I'm on a quest to find some way to resolve my multi-genre predicament. One note so far, some applications I've found use last.fm to pull tags - this seems like an interesting idea, but may leave me in the same predicament as before.

I'll keep you updated!

Pound Proxy Missing Slash

Monday, 14 April 2008 20:30

As mentioned before, I use Pound as a front end proxy to my sites. Due to some issues on my previous post I upgraded to 2.4.1 - seems there is an issue in 301 redirects. In order to fix do the following:

edit http.c line 1159 and line 1173:

snprintf(buf, MAXBUF, "Location: %s://%s%s",

Should Read:

snprintf(buf, MAXBUF, "Location: %s://%s/%s",

Give that a test and you should find it fixed.