I decided to kill my twitter account earlier this morning and attempted to go through with it just now. When I clicked the delete account link, An alert popped up saying that due to twitter stressing out, that feature has been disabled. Um, what? The ability to delete an account is pretty vital in my eyes, I do not want to be trapped in a service that I have no use for. How difficult is it to run a DELETE query in SQL?
I can delete my mobile phone info and my picture yet I cannot remove my account completely. This is not cool.
Tags: delete, twitter | 26.08.2008 16:45 | No Comments
Laptop is still not here. The tracking is somewhat cryptic and I have no idea where it is.
| Date |
Time |
Location |
Activity |
| 26/08/08 |
10:05 |
PLAN COMMITTED |
NOTE. |
| 25/08/08 |
11:16 |
MR. KEVIN SMITH 28/08/08 |
SCHEDULED DELIVERY DATE. |
| 24/08/08 |
14:00 |
RAHEEN |
DEPARTED EMF. |
| 24/08/08 |
12:17 |
|
ISLAND DELIVERY. |
I’m slightly worried about one of the entries. Apparently the delivery date has been set but they were supposed to call me to ask when it is convenient. Also, what does “plan committed” mean? What plan?
There are also some bad experiences with the courier that Dell use to ship stuff in the UK. Aparrently Walsh Western subcontract the deliveries to other couriers so I have no idea what van to look out for.
Call me paranoid but when you have spent a fair bit of money you want to know where your purchace is and negative reviews aren’t comforting.
Tags: delivery, Dell, laptop, Walsh Western | 26.08.2008 12:26 | 3 Comments
*Squees like a crazed fangirl*
Tags: laptop, squeee | 24.08.2008 12:28 | No Comments
Did a bit of organising the Afternow files I have on my mirror. A lot of folk have made their own Afternow stuff and I thought it would be best to have a directory for all of them.
If you haven’t checked out the stuff, do it.
Tags: mirror, Tales from the Afternow | 22.08.2008 19:22 | 1 Comment
I made a game! Well, copied from a magazine (Linux Format 110) but it still counts. It is a stripped down version of space invaders which is coded in python. Needs the pygame software installed to work as well as an install of python (duh).
No idea what the liscence is with the code, I’m assuming some version of the GPL. I’m putting it up anyway. It is pretty hard, goes quite fast. Have fun!
Tags: game, geek, pygame, python, space invaders | 22.08.2008 13:02 | 1 Comment
I’ve decided to take down the forums due to inactivity. Not much point in having them when only 2 folk have signed up and besides, all the chat I want I can get elsewhere.
Tags: forums | 21.08.2008 11:56 | No Comments
Too little chicken + too much spice mix + no water = hard to clean wok.
At least it was cooked.
Tags: cooking, fail | 19.08.2008 18:59 | 1 Comment
I have been struggling with getting Nginx working on my server at home for the past week or so. Was really confusing me since the configuration files were migrated from my desktop machine unchanged where Nginx works perfectly. The error log said that there was a permissions error, google-fu said to change the ownership of the directory containing th files to www-data:www-data which never helped.
Pig Monkey suggested to check that the directories containing the files to be served had the right permissions. So I chmodded them to 755 and all was good.
I’m such an admin n00b. This is not the first time I’ve had permission errors. Those of you who I gave accounts to to mirror stuff will be all too aware of my screwups.
Mental note: when diagnosing problems, run chmod -R 755 . to see if that fixes things.
Tags: geek, linux, nginx, permissions | 17.08.2008 20:58 | No Comments
Just configured my local install of Bash Blogger to post to the server this site lives on. Ah, Rsync, how I love thee.
Check out the slickness and let me know what you think
Tags: Bash Blogger, remote posting, rsync | 16.08.2008 20:15 | No Comments
I have been experimenting a bit with some weblog software called Bash Blogger. If you haven’t guessed by the name, it uses Bash as the main processing engine with Vi (by default, is changable) for writing/editing. It spits out plain html and all the entries are stored as plain text which makes backups easy as pie.
Security is also good. You’re not running any form of database server which is one less thing to get compromised, plus the site being in plain html means that your database won’t choke if you get slashdotted. You also don’t need to worry too much about hardening your web server, there are no dynamic parts to exploit. If something bad does happen, just use the rebuild function.
The main downside of Bash Blogger is that there is no support for tags. Not a huge deal but once you get into the habit of tagging posts its a tad annoying to stop. The other thing is a lack of comments, which could be a benefit (no spam or folk being assholes). I could just have a mailto link and have folk email me their thoughts and then I copy/paste into the relevant entry.
Need to play some more with BashBlogger, I’m undecided if I want to replace Wordpress with it.
Tags: Bash Blogger, geek | 16.08.2008 19:53 | No Comments