Stupidoo!!!

So what’s the idea behind this? You can play music but can not pause unless you move your mouse cursor to the song and right click to bring up the menu and hit Pause? With Spacebar that means I’ll have to be in Music mode, which happens to be not the default mode for me when opening. I am using iTunes 10.5.1.42 with Windows 7. Some smart guy tell me the reasoning of the designer here? What’s wrong with a Pause button?

(Ah, also, there’s also a need for Delete key function on iPhone/iPad.)
(Oh, and what’s wrong with a two-button mouse?)

I had this error message: [an error occurred while processing this directive] while I tried to access my homepage, which was an issue I thought I took care of long time ago. I thought I changed some .htaccess content before for security reasons, so I was trying to figure out what I did wrong with it. It took me some time but I finally found this page and reset my file permission of index.php to 644 and it started working. Strange, though…who changed the file permission? Me?

I used hyperspin.com to monitor my sites and it was great with good features (except not so great that I would pay out of my pocket to them to use it). So what happened is that after the trial period they test my one site one time every hour. This is interesting. I think I have better luck knowing if my sites are down with my iPhone. Of course I feel a little uneasy without knowing if my sites are down. But, hey, there must be something free out there, right?

Well, if you are like me, then our prayers have been answered. I ran into this http://wasitup.com. It is cool and all. Very simplistic and neat. They (he, it seems to be, looks like a geek’s nice work as his past time) test you sites every 5 minutes. I just started using it so I am around the first couple of thousand users there.

It’s cool for several reasons:

1. It’s free.
2. It (as in contrary to my iPhone) gives what I wanted.
3. It’s free.
4. The website interface is totally kewl!!!
5. The management is … how can I say, he not only not giving you a management portal, you don’t even get an account. What he does is: you send in emails when you need to know how many sites you are monitoring. Geez, I’d call that guy a smarty….!!! (Seriously, what a brilliant idea, right?)

(Again, don’t forget to use it to feel the coolness of this guy’s management procedure and interface design ideas.)

Ya…even an installation in VirtualBox…in one hour I got this old virus connecting me with all the SMTP servers available around the world…

Xmarks is a bookmark synchronization service and it was the best I could find at the time when I desperately needed a bookmark management/sync software. I used it and have been very happy with it. I even have my passwords stored and synced.

If you haven’t used Xmarks (formerly Foxmarks as a Firefox add-on), I strongly suggest you to do so out of personal experience. Huh? Does it with other browsers like Internet Explorer? …Firefox isn’t the only browser?

Unfortunately, Xmarks is being blocked by all sorts of firewalls and proxys. I hate to see that happening and Xmarks.com seems not able to take care of it. Maybe I should offer a server to offer such service so to route around the Xmarks server. The software has the capacity to do so. Xmarks is a great service and I let Xmarks handle my life. Now I would sacrifice my life (no, I won’t) to keep it up and running.

I use StatPress for get my WordPress blog stat analysis. I thought I would get popular start writing a blog…turned out that everybody’s got 3~5 blogs. Well, I got more than that. I used blogspot before they were acquired by Google.

StatPress is nice and easy to use (unlike Google Analytics. Highly recommended.

Anyway, two things about StatPress Reloaded that are totally intolerable:

1. Why does it only show a handful of visitors? I should have more…

2. On June 6 and 7 I don’t have any unique visitors? How does this work? No unique visitors? But I was receiving traffic…strange. I don’t think I have loyal visitors already. Too early for that, you know. BTW, if there’s something wrong about this, it’s StatPress Reloaded, not mine.

The news was out April 20th, 2009. Didn’t know how I missed but this is a major thing!

News on Oracle: http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/press/018363

Daemon is pronounced as “DEE-m?n” ( and I am right about it). How do I know that I am right on this one? Well, I am right because Wikipedia says so. Uh? Wikipedia could be wrong? I tell you, when Wiki and I reach a consensus, I am right…(as always).