31. 03.
There are lots of places to find old newspaper clippings that are humorous. I ran across a few gems today I wanted to share:
Ah, but if he’s done this once before hasn’t he done it an infinite number of times?
Now why can’t my kids’ school be on THIS lunch program? I’m pretty sure it would stop the complaining here at home.
29. 03.
Props going out this week:
Huge props to the over 10,000 people who have joined my facebook group Vermonters calling on Jim Douglas not to veto same sex marriage - I had not expected so many folks to sign up for this and am just blown away by the HUGE support from around the world in favor of same sex marriage - in favor of human and civil rights for ALL people.
Kudos to the fine folks at WolfromAlpha - eager to see what they come up with and curious to the response it will get. Even if the answers the serach engine provides are great I do wonder if people will trust it. Nonetheless, worthy of some props for getting the attention of Google which has now expanded their semantic search results at the bottom of every page. Are they worried?
Props going out to the people of Fargo, North Dakota and surrounding areas. The Red River threatened to massively flood the area, but the community got together in a BIG way to do all they could to prevent it. You all make us proud to be Americans. Here is a great collection of images showing the nature of these people - amazing.
Finally, props out to Tesla Motors for the Model S all electric sedan. Mass production won’t happen until sometime in 2010 (about the sme time Chevy and Nissan expect to roll out their entries), but it just goes to show that we are FINALLY on our way to a post-gasoline commuter society.
25. 03.
Recently I moved all my sites over to a Windows dedicated server. They had previously been on two different machines - one Windows and One Linux.
I discovered today that scripts that used the form enctype=”multipart/form-data” to upload images to the server no longer worked while running PHP under IIS (as an ISAPI).
Hopefully my friend Google will have brought you here for a possible answer to your problem:
For reason unknown to me your code MUST use the $_FILES method of accessing the file rather than the named form.
The following method will work for PHP on Windows:
<?php
if ( !empty($_FILES['file']['tmp_name']) ) {
move_uploaded_file($_FILES['file']['tmp_name'], ‘./’ . $_FILES['file']['name']);
header(’Location: http://www.mywebsite.com/dump/’);
exit;
}
?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN”
“http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd”>
<html>
<head>
<title>Dump Upload</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Upload a File</h1>
<form action=”upload.php” enctype=”multipart/form-data” method=”post”>
<input type=”hidden” name=”MAX_FILE_SIZE” value=”1000000000″ />
Select the File:<br /><input type=”file” name=”file” /><br />
<input type=”submit” value=”Upload” />
</form>
</body>
Thanks to the folks at Stack Overflow for the code
Do check your file system permissions as well, but referencing $file_name does not seem to work for PHP on Windows.
22. 03.
I recently made mention on my Facebook Profile that I intend to start a kitchen podcast. This will be to rework an existing domain I have: www.kitchenmatters.com. I wanted to quickly update as to the progress on this. We’ve recorded the first episode and need to patch together the pieces and otherwise edit it. I’d love to hear about suggested software for video editing. If you have any ideas on what would be best please comment and share with me.
Adobe Premier is at the forefront of my considerations.
20. 03.
This is just too cool …
The video is from National Geographic. A good article on the fish can be found a FT.
I just wonder ifwhen order up one of these $29,000 bad boys if it comes with chips or not.
20. 03.
Google’s logo changes to celebrate all sorts of special days. It’s fun to see some of the designs they have done over the years. You can see them over at Google here =)
Today they are celebrating the first day of Spring with a design by Eric Carle.
Google's logo for first day of Spring 2009
When I saw this it made me think of books in general and kids’ books in particular. Regarding kids books I would like to know what favorites are going around your house now. Classics like The Very Hungry Caterpillar or something many or most may not have heard of that you can recommend? Please leave a comment if you have one ~ always up for suggestions.
Books are on my mind anyway because I have started a Facebook group - One Book One Month. Here is our premise: that we are all very busy, but most of us like a good book and a book discussion. Members can suggest titles and then a selection of those will be voted on. Then we either read and discuss or don’t read and don’t discuss. What I like about the idea is that since Facebook brings people from the outer edges of our social circles a little bit closer it is possible to share something meaningful with folks in the form of a shared experience while perhaps half a planet apart.
Membership in the group is currently wide open (just started it yesterday) - I’d love to have you suggest a title for reading in the coming month.
Oh - so what does this post have to do Giving a Mouse a Cookie? Well…
If you give Ed a Spring Google logo he’s going to want to blog about it.
If you let him blog about it he’s going to want to ask about kids books in your life.
If he asks about kids books he’ll probably want to read and discuss books with you on Facebook.
And chances are, if you start discussing something with Ed he’ll turn to Google where he’ll find the next holiday logo.
Happy Spring to you!
19. 03.
Props going out:
As I collect things from online I am starting to use my drop.io more often. I am not affiliated with them ~ I just happen to really dig what they offer and I think you might as well. It seems to work pretty well as a bridge between cloud and desktop and a hedge against bookmarking. What I’d really love is to have drop.io host One Note format. [hint hint]
Governor Bill Richardson (NM) for signing a repeal to New Mexicos’ death penalty.
NPR for thriving in a difficult news environment.
18. 03.
Right off the bat here is the link:
http://blogmaverick.com/2009/02/09/the-mark-cuban-stimulus-plan-open-source-funding/
It may take awhile to load as there are thousands of comments on this post.
I don’t have the bandwidth today to go into detail, but I did want to post the link. Good luck to any who go for it.
17. 03.
There is so much that I want to do and so much that I need to do. Many times I find myself paralyzed by the volume of thoughts interrupting me from what I am doing to remind me of other commitments. David Allen in his book Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
(GTD) recognizes these as mismanaged commitments and provides a way to steer toward a less cluttered and interrupted mind-space through what amounts to what we all know already: putting things down on lists helps. Where he goes beyond simple list-making is in his framework for moving toward goals - it’s really quite fascinating.
I am starting on GTD and it is one of my goals to record my process and progress now and again on this blog. For now, however, I can cross off this action item and move on with more tasks.
16. 03.
I’ve had blogs in the past and will probably have others in the future. This post - here and now - marks the start of my new blog, however. The first post has no meaning other than to get things started. I have decided that’s okay because that’s just how I roll.
Ed Rooney