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Thursday, the 5th of Jun 2008
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Update: my new host isn't that reliable, so I made some modifications to my code to compensate for their network issues. Should be much more reliable now.
The pet project yesterday's rant was referring to is something I've been working on in my spare time over a few weekends. I've always been curious as to where my package travels to when it's in the courier's possession, and since map APIs are so well rounded now I decided I should just write up an application to do just that.
parcelplotr.com
At the moment it is very beta, but it does work and supports FedEx tracking numbers. If you want to try it out you can use:
FedEx: 481404010034023
FedEx: 947046906133
I'm going to add more couriers in the future, but I need tracking numbers to test with. So if you have any packages coming your way that aren't FedEx, please, send them to me so I can add more couriers to the service. The goal here is to have one central location to track your packages, regardless of who's carrying it.
Be sure to send me your bugs!
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Wednesday, the 4th of Jun 2008
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I had to switch hosts today, it is not a fun process. I've been working on a new project for the past couple of weekends and just got it into a workable state, so naturally I want to test it live on the web-- the only issue is my (old) webhost, Sunwave was running PHP4 and my code was in PHP5. On Sunday I put in a request to get it moved to PHP5, I was told that "someone was on the job". For the next couple of days the status remained "someone is on the job" whenever I would inquire about it. Fast forward to today and I'm no longer a customer.
The issue isn't that they were taking their sweet time to do it, or that there was a complete lack of communication; the problem was the complete lack of respect and rude behavior of the support representative towards their customer. The headers of the server showed "PHP 4.4.7", I was told "someone was on the job" for numerous days.. why in the world would I even begin to think that PHP5 was also on the server?
What aggrivates me more is that whenever I did a website for a client I would suggest the hosting company to them. I've sent them a lot of business and for them to treat a customer this way just speaks loads of the company. Anyhoo, enough ranting.. here is the chat log..
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Thursday, the 15th of Feb 2007
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So it's not a huge development, I actually just wrote it for fun because I love reading the back of my Snapple bottle caps, but it's something regardless-- and my site has been pretty idle for a while now so it needs some kind of new content ;)
Anyhoo, snapple-fact is a small script that will download a real fact from snapple.com and display it to the user. It also has the ability to loop (with a provided delay) and save facts to a file for later use.
Feel free to download it at it's project page here.
Here are a few facts I've collected while testing:
1: A goldfish's attention span is 3 seconds.
2: Animals that lay eggs don't have belly buttons.
3: Beavers can hold their breath for 45 minutes.
4: Slugs have 4 noses.
5: A camel has 3 eyelids.
6: A honey bee can fly at 15 miles per hour.
7: A queen bee can lay 800-1500 eggs per day.
8: A bee has 5 eyelids.
9: The average speed of a house fly is 4.5 miles per hour.
10: Mosquitoes are attracted to people who have recently eaten bananas.
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Thursday, the 19th of Oct 2006
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So I've been pretty sick this past week, laying in bed eating soup and what not.. you know the usual sickly stuff. During this time I've been bored out of my mind!
Today I decided to write a quick little python script to query all the TLDs I could think of for Google-- I just needed to get some kind of coding in, I didn't really care what it was for as long as I wrote something.
You can download the script here if you're curious; who knows, maybe someone will find another use for it.
Anyhoo, I thumbnailed all the sites and uploaded them to Photobucket.com. During this whole thing I found an interesting domain: google.vc. It has that OSX toolbar that one of the Google engineers released a while ago but was short lived because Apple complaind (IIRC). I don't think the domain is owned by Google though, regardless its still an interesting collection of Google stuff.
Ok on to the results, just to clarify they are organized alphabetically with the .co.xx TLDs at the end... I also included domains where Google wasn't the owner just for the hell of it.
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Thursday, the 3rd of Aug 2006
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I came across this audio/photo essay yesterday about Chernobyl and the aftermath twenty years later. It's really worth the watch if you're uninformed about the history of Chernobyl and have the time; really quite depressing to think they actually live like this now.
Click the image below to watch it.
Update: fixed broken link. Thanks Mike!
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