I’m an outline and three pages into my second book.
Expect to hear more about it in six months or so.
(This time around, I know better than to think I can crank it out any faster than that.)
Since I haven’t posted in awhile, here’s Warren G’s “Regulate”, as summarized by Wikipedia.
…I get griped at for exceeding budget on a site, I’ll show the client this.
The Manhattan Project exceeded its initial budget by….oh, only about thirty-three million percent or so.
Interesting little graph of the marketing capabilities of major social media sites here.
I ran into this one this evening, and at its root, it comes down to some changes made between MySQL 5.0 and 5.1.
Problem is, fixing the issues created by these changes seems to be more involved than the documentation implies. Suggested fixes such as commenting out the skip-bdb option in my.cnf did not work in this case.
After spending hours perusing support sites, and banging my head repeatedly against these tables that were being reported as “corrupt” and unrepairable, I finally hit upon a low-tech solution.
I downloaded the actual database files from /var/lib/mysql, tucked it into the /var/lib/mysql directory of a MySQL 5.0 install, exported the SQL queries and re-imported them into my 5.1 install.
This solution isn’t for everyone, of course, because it requires access to a 5.0 install, but it worked for me.
During a brief foray into Wikipedia today, I found myself deposited on a site operated by the National Archives, that preserved the whitehouse.gov website as it existed during the transfer of power between George W. Bush and Barack Obama.
It got me to thinking: viewing the evolving capabilities, style conventions, and sensibilities of the website of this most visible of American institutions might provide insights for communicators of any stripe, whether they be marketers, writers, or political operators/organizations such as the White House is.
Failing that, it’s still an interesting walk through 256-color gifs, table layouts, the dawn of Javascript, and the birth of powerful content management systems.
Since the Clinton-era website was not preserved by the National Archives, I had to turn to Archive.org, “The Internet Wayback Machine”, in order to see the real evolution, as well as the evolving internet face of the subsequent Bush Administration.
Here are some screenshots documenting that evolution. You can click on the screenshots to pull up an embiggened slideshow view.
The 62-foot statue of Jesus built by a megachurch just off I-75 near Cincinnati, known locally as “Touchdown Jesus“, was destroyed last night by lightning.
God was unavailable for comment on this matter.
It’s clear what joke the original creator of this image is making.
Less clear is why this formula “just works”.
Anyone who has even a passing interest in baseball has heard by now of The Perfect Debacle, the 28-out Perfect Game thrown by Armando Galarraga, and ruined by a bad call on the part of an umpire, Jim Joyce, who is otherwise well-regarded by one and all.
Today, of course, it was revealed, if only obliquely and still disputably, that baseball’s overseer, former owner-turned-Commissioner Bud Selig, will not take the action that would remedy that Perfect Debacle, and overturn the call that even the umpire in question now says was flubbed.
Present in much of the wall-to-wall coverage has been criticism of the unfortunate way that the officiating has overshadowed the on-field action in recent weeks. That coverage has frequently taken the stance that baseball’s umpires, fairly unique in the autonomy they’re granted in ensuring the integrity of games, should not be as prominent, that they should be of the bland, interchangeable type favored by other major sporting leagues.
This notion is dead wrong, and here’s why.
