Two of my planets appear to be down — Planet NEO and Neohawk IT. They are not actually down, but for some reason not responding. Even the two that are responding take an awfully long time to respond. I haven’t figured out why, nor do I particularly have time right now.
I’ll look at it this weekend. My apologies to to the folks using the Neohawk.Info Planets.
Update The planets are back up. I had to restart services, as it looks like I was running out of memory.
I was playing around with Google Apps this morning. Recently I discovered that you can use your own domain with google apps — google will even register you a domain for $10 for a year. What that means, for example, is that my rbh at neohawk.info email account is now handled by gmail on the backend, I have a calendar (not open to the public yet), a google docs section, a “start page” and a sites page, which is really like a shared wiki for “internal” use.
As you should be aware, Google announced Friend Connect the other day, and being the dutiful google fanboy, I applied to participate in the “preview release”. What I noticed in filling out the form, was that it was “powered by google docs”. And then this morning, via Ma.gnolia was a simple how-to on how to create a webform using google docs’ spreadsheet. So I decided to give it a try.
I recently got an email, most likely because the person in question saw Planet NEO, which was asking to add me as a contact to the company’s media list — the person in questions appears to work for a PR firm. Of course I responded, (queue old lady from Wendy’s commercial) “Where’s the RSS feed”. And that got me to thinking about the number of website’s I’ve seen that have “news” sections on their website, but no RSS feed. And that gave me the idea for my first google docs’ spreadsheet webform. Note, it’s real simple and not really thought out — I did say I was testing yes?
I am not impressed with Hardy, the most recent release of kubuntu/ubuntu. First off, you have to go through a lot of hassle(relatively speaking, of course) to keep Firefox 2, the stable release of Firefox. Firefox 2 is the version where Firebug works reliably. However, Hardy comes with Beta 5 of Firefox 3 which is only so-so, and you have to use the beta of firebug 1.1. Since doing installing that though, Firefox consistently hangs after a while. I don’t remember having this much problem with a Mozilla related browser on Linux since Netscape 4.72 back in ‘99.
The other thing that annoys me is that it appears the JRE for Open Office is borked. I haven’t been able to fix it yet. Granted I haven’t spent that much time trying to fix it, but it certainly didn’t work “out-of-the-box”. Now, it is conceivable that since I did an “upgrade” as opposed to a clean install, that may have caused some problems. In fact, now that I think about it, I don’t think I’ve had single Kubuntu “upgrade” go smoothly. Not one.
Okay, so I am probably being too harsh, particularly since overall the experience has been great. And I’m not even remotely considering changing distros, but it is still annoying that it doesn’t just work. I would understand it better if were a “beta” upgrade, but this was a “release”.
This is my first post on my new blog. I have switched to byteflow. I have somethings to tweak, but we should be good to go for the most part.
For some reason, the url is being rewritten to neohawk.info instead of www.neohawk.info. Of course, I can live with that, but that does mean the feeds are all screwy. Actually, now that I think of it, the feed locations have changed anyway, so it’s not such a big deal.
One of the things I like about byteflow over my previous blog incarnation here on neohawk.info is that: 日本語が通るのだ. Yup, Japanese works!
I didn’t bother porting over the posts from my previous blog, as there weren’t a lot of them, and they weren’t anything special either. I’d rather start new and fresh. Actually, I’m more concerned about my Planets as in order to get byteflow to work I needed to upgrade Django to the latest and greatest version. I’m not sure that Feedjack works on the newest version. I’ll guess we’ll see, won’t we.
