So yesterday I came across SweetCron, and liked the idea of it. I was half tempted to installed it until I came across a plugin for Wordpress. I have installed the plugin and now you can follow my LifeStream here. Also you may have noticed that I removed the Flickr feed at the bottom of the site…
I decided not to renew my Flickr account. They want to give me 3 months free if I sign up again. But I have decided to go back to my roots and use Gallery2. Gallery2 has come a long way and I can import photos via email messages, just like I did with Flickr. And they allow for a whole bunch of goodies now. I will post the link once I get around to uploading all my images again.
I really wish I could make this in to a post with a little more content. But just wanted to say that I like the new Twitter layout. Now if they could only concentrate on getting rid of the overloaded whale messages and bring back the damn IM client.
Thanks to InMotion hosting, Fauxzen.com now has SSL. Right now its only running for the Wordpress admin section, but I might push it over to the rest of the site just because.
I got on a fix today about ads on websites, I already use Adblock Plus as well as the Adblock Filterset.G Updater in Firefox. But I wanted to take it a step further. I adid so with the following steps.
Opened up terminal and added the following list to my /etc/hosts file.
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.txt
After this you need to flush the DNS cache
sudo dscacheutil -flushcache
All set. You can of course use this on Windows/Linux and other versions of OS X. For older versions of OS X the dscacheutil command is not the same.
So the last couple of days my internet connection has been acting pretty strange. Pinging my fileserver was taking about 4000-6000ms … which is not normal. When pinging the LinkSys WRT54G running DD-WRT v24 it was taking about 30ms which is pretty high. All of a sudden my wireless dropped and all the settings were reset to DD-WRT default …. Spent about an hour setting it all back up, while doing so I decided to upgrade to the newest version of v24. All seems well now and much quicker to boot.
