Due to some technical difficulties my blog has been down for about 15 hours from this post. I contacted tech support but it seems something was up at Dreamhost. I did a traceroute earlier in the day and it would get to the dreamhost server farm, but then it would time out. Throughout the day I kept getting closer to the goal, but I just couldn’t seem to find the server that was hosting my blog. Now its back to normal and I hope nothing else gets messed up.

K post on the internet prices from Infoconnect and there are some very nice deals. Currently I have a 1.5 MB connection from Qualitynet which I am going to upgrade to 4 MB since the price is very reasonable, 850 KD isn’t too bad for that much speed and originally when they first launched it the price was 1600 KD.

Hopefully my line will be able to support this speed, and by the time I want more speed I hope they connect fiber to homes in Kuwait.

Recently the Askimet Spam has been more aggressive then usual or more spam comments have been posted then usual. Usually the spam goes up between 30 to 200 spam comments a day, there is no reasoning for the amount of spam that I get its random.

Whats happening is that some normal comments get caught in this filter, about two to three a week get caught. I try to go through the spam list once every two days just to check if there were any normal comments that got stuck there. If your comment doesn’t appear and it isn’t under moderation shoot me an email to try to find it, that happens sometimes, I have no control over how this spam filter works, but its better then having to clean up all the spam comments myself. So let me know.

Since I have some time this weekend I’m trying to download as many shows as possible to enjoy over this period:

• Mr. Woodcock
• The Seeker
• Shoot Em Up
• Blonde Ambition
• Resident Evil Extinction
• The Heart Break Kid
• The Kingdom
• Eastern Promise
• The Flock
• Stardust

There are some movies that I really want to watch, and some that I have found interesting and I want to have a selection to choose from. I’m looking forward to Stardust but I will watch that on my own since its a little too much fantasy for some of the guys.

I was laughing when I got this email from Dreamhost support last night, I was messing around as usual and I have a few web addresses trying to think what to do with them, then I was checking my normal mail and saw this from support. It seems there was something on ZDistrict that people were downloading constantly and it was causing havoc to the server.

We are contacting you to inform you that we have had to throttle the connections to your site (zdistrict.com) as it was causing the apache server you are on to run out of available connection slots. While we attempt to avoid disruption of customer services in this case it was causing problems for other users so we were forced to take action. If you can redesign your site to be less process-intensive (we only throttle sites when they are causing load in the server in addition to having many connections – if you just have static content for example that’s easy for the machine to servce up and we can just give you more connections) we’ll be happy to review the case for you. It is also possible that you have outgrown shared hosting and are ready for your own private server:

http://dreamhostps.com

If you are interested in that option please contact support with any questions you have any we’ll be happy to assist you.

I won’t really be doing anything to adjust whatever was happening!

Vectorizing an image is the process of turning a normal image into fine lines as if its a realistic cartoon, which makes for some really funky pictures.

Whats great about Vector magic is that it can get rid of an pixilization that occures with any image when zooming in. Its all done online which makes things very simple. This was developed by some stanford students and it does an amazing job.

The great thing is that the Vector image can be downloaded in three version as a EPS, SVG, or PNG! I prefer to download it as a PNG so I can use it on the web or for personal use.

When vectorizing the image it gives you a percentage and the if the file is too big it automatically shrinks it so that the system doesn’t get overloaded. And you can choose three types of vectorization: low, medium, and high detail. I perfer the low detail because it looks more cartoon like that.

A fantastic thing to play around with online and I really like it, check it out. I have always loved vector images but I don’t have the skills close enough to come up with the results that I want. I just love what it has done to my bike, I will be using this a lot.

Link: LifeHacker
Link: VectorMagic

The title image says it all.

I have known that Del.icio.us is one the most popular social bookmarking websites for years now and just keep growing, what I didn’t know was that there is a social bookmarking website for Billionaires.

There are some interesting articles about Billionaires and how the standard kees growing and different people keep entering the list. So this website seems to be addressed to them, I was laughing seeing the links mentioned and what people discuss.

The funniest part is this:

>> check out what less exclusive people are bookmarking

How fun is this, a phone calling service which spoofs your caller ID. You can call your friend and the number of the White House or Homeland Security will show up on his caller ID. This service is only available in the states, but it can be hilarious. They offer the service to be tried for free so you can see how it works for two minutes before being disconnected. They also have the feature of changing your voice real time to a different female or male voice. The funny part this is all legal, I wouldn’t mind trying this out.

I would get the number to Jack Bauer and have that show up as my caller ID, so if they call back they get Jack Bauer.

Link: SpoofCard

These are the numbers compiled from the stats from Google Reader, but they aren’t completely correct since there are some aggregations with duplicates in them, but this list does give you an interesting look into whats being looked at. There are certain blogs which are visited more but aren’t the highest on the list.

Link: TechCrunch

 

This is probably the best to-do list manager I have ever seen. I have just started using it recently and it has turned out to be even better then I hoped. They call it an Online To Do List and Task Manager, I call it a savior. It really does organize all your details and it is very easy to manage and integrate into other Google Apps. I have tried other online programs and downloadable ones but nothing comes close to this, they kept it simple with lots of features.

• Manage Tasks from any computer or mobile
• Get email, SMS, or IM Reminders (SMS for US only)
• Share your tasks
• Access from your phone
• Manage Tasks offline
• Use with Google Calendar
• Add task from iGoogle
• Its Free 

I try to organize everything in my head, but sometimes I do forget things and this makes things a lot easier. I have used it for a few days and it does keep all the information for me to remember.

Link: RememberTheMilk