In Boston at Usenix this week (June 21-28).

June 22nd, 2008

You can follow along on Twitter or Brightkite.

Jon Udell’s online calendaring tips

June 1st, 2008

Rather then repeat what Jon has already done I simply present you his articles: Part 1: Outlook, Part 2: Google Calendar and Part 3: Apple ical.

Linux High-Availability presentation May 15 in Orlando

May 13th, 2008

I will be giving a presentation on Linux High Availability at LEAP-CF Thursday May 15, 2008. I will have slides online later tonight.

L. B. Cebik has passed on

April 22nd, 2008

Received this sad email today about W4RNL:

Orlando Traffic Twitter is live

April 20th, 2008

Status update. Yeah I have been busy the last month or so. First as you may be aware I am at the forefront of a new company merged out of three smaller ones so by day that keeps me very busy. At night and just about every other waking hour I am fast at work on my other projects with a new VoltCo company being launched this month Feedgoria. Although the feed business is becoming dated I plan to make some new and different products which no one to my knowledge has done before and just maybe launch some news ideas in the process. So in that direction as of Saturday evening I have started a new Orlando Traffic Twitter feed at http://twitter.com/orlandotraffic. So if you are in the Orlando Florida area and you depend on Twitter for your updates please follow orlandotraffic and by all means continue to send me your ideas and suggestions. I would like to thank my good friend Albert for the idea.

10 cool uses for Twitter

March 18th, 2008

I found this article on Geekpreneur called “10 Cool Uses of Twitter”. The most useful one to me is the traffic alerting via Commuter Feed. For Orlando there are currently 12 incidents posted. Cool. Florida Highway Patrol has a site that shows traffic incidents. Be interesting to convert these to Tweets or SMS messages.

Renaming your Wordpress 2.x blog to another domain name

March 17th, 2008

Thanks to mydigitallife for the hints on how to do this.

In my case bilbo.some.net was renamed to kinscoe.somenewplace.com.


UPDATE wp_options SET option_value = replace(option_value, 'http://bilbo.some.net',
'http://kinscoe.somenewplace.com') WHERE option_name = 'home' OR option_name = 'siteurl';

UPDATE wp_options SET option_value = replace(option_value, 'http://bilbo.some.net',
'http://kinscoe.somenewplace.com') WHERE option_name = 'home';

UPDATE wp_posts SET guid = replace(guid, 'http://bilbo.some.net','http://kinscoe.somenewplace.com');

UPDATE wp_posts SET post_content = replace(post_content, 'http://bilbo.some.net', 'http://kinscoe.somenewplace.com');

show tables;
+---------------------------+
| Tables_in_bilbo_wordpress |
+---------------------------+
| wp_categories             |
| wp_comments               |
| wp_link2cat               |
| wp_links                  |
| wp_options                |
| wp_post2cat               |
| wp_postmeta               |
| wp_posts                  |
| wp_usermeta               |
| wp_users                  |
+---------------------------+
10 rows in set (0.02 sec)

SHOW FIELDS FROM wp_options;

+---------------------+------------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+
| Field               | Type             | Null | Key | Default | Extra          |
+---------------------+------------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+
| option_id           | bigint(20)       |      | PRI | NULL    | auto_increment |
| blog_id             | int(11)          |      | PRI | 0       |                |
| option_name         | varchar(64)      |      | PRI |         |                |
| option_can_override | enum('Y','N')    |      |     | Y       |                |
| option_type         | int(11)          |      |     | 1       |                |
| option_value        | longtext         |      |     |         |                |
| option_width        | int(11)          |      |     | 20      |                |
| option_height       | int(11)          |      |     | 8       |                |
| option_description  | tinytext         |      |     |         |                |
| option_admin_level  | int(11)          |      |     | 1       |                |
| autoload            | enum('yes','no') |      |     | yes     |                |
+---------------------+------------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+
11 rows in set (0.04 sec)

select option_value from wp_options WHERE option_name = 'home';
+---------------------------+
| option_value              |
+---------------------------+
| http://bilbo.some.net |
+---------------------------+
1 row in set (0.01 sec)

Note that in this case I was only renaming the virtual host not actually moving the site to another server. If you do that then you also need to backup your database and restore it to the new server as well.

Sea change for Twitter

March 17th, 2008

I kind of get twitter now. The recent SXSW made me see the light. it’s not just micro blogging as I had been using it for. It’s a global irc chat. So the point of following someone is the point of being able to talk to them in a safe way. So then whomever follows you you may as well follow them. Of course when you reply to (”@”) someone you don’t really have to be following them to send them a message. The weird thing is if you use the twitter web site you won’t see replies unless you are following the sender. The other day I installed twitter on my blackberry and it had a feature to see replies and I found people were replying to my posts but on the public timeline I suppose. I just was not seeing them on the web site. Now to find a web app that will.

According to the Twitter settings:

“Always: all @ replies

I receive all @replies from people I follow, even if I don’t follow the person to whom the @reply is directed.”

Notice it does not say “@replies from people I do not follow”.That is a problem so how do I do this from the web? The only way I have now is to either use the Blackberry app. or scrape the public timeline.

Programming the PDP 11 the video

March 11th, 2008

My podcast beat up your blog

February 19th, 2008


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