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crimulus’ weekly Twitter updates — 2010-09-05

Jeremy — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 10:20:00 +0000

“Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.” ~Charles Darwin #
I admit I really haven’t followed this story, but this #Wikipedia article reads like a book! #chileanmines http://abv8.me/2h1 #
Workout month 1 complete … August turned out to be a pretty productive month. #
What Different Sorting Algorithms Sound Like http://t.co/dN2AZHN via @geekosystem Wonderful … *tears* #
Could this be anything less than f*ing incredible? http://abv8.me/2h2 (Tethys passing in front of Titan) #Cassini #
@Twitbin The 2.7 plugin version works great, but it does not save login credentials, and you have to keep logging in. #
Existence can be heartbreaking, but non-existence would be heart-stopping. #
Your eyes scream the end is creepin in. I’ll need 37 stitches to keep the pain in. #
BBC News – Charles Darwin’s ecological experiment on Ascension isle http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11137903 #
RT @CarConnection : Lithium-Ion Batteries Get Green Kudos, Better Than Gasoline http://bit.ly/cEz5dY #
“The Extraordinary Tale of Red Rain, Comets and Extraterrestrials ” http://abv8.me/2h3 Hmmm … #
NASA Selects Investigations for First Sun Encounter Mission – NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory http://abv8.me/2h4 #
It would be nice to be able to leave my office to get a coffee and not get accosted 500 times … #
I think I heart this moon (definitely this image!)..thx @profbriancox for first showing it to me #wotss http://abv8.me/2h6 #
Facebook To Add Remote Logout: http://bit.ly/bHWn4M #
#Hawking God didn’t create universe 301 quadrillion+ people recommend. LOL http://twitpic.com/2kuwpc #
http://twitpic.com/2kuwpc – ** Ok 301 trillion … sorry I overestimated the commas … #
RT @slashdot “New Malware Imitates Browser Warning Pages” http://bit.ly/dn8uon You ha
ve been advised … #
Missing Piece Inspires New Look at Mars Puzzle – NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory http://abv8.me/2h9 #
“DVDs Don’t Turn Toddlers Into Vocabulary Einsteins – Science News” http://abv8.me/2ha Fantastic parental insight … #
Enlightening the future often obscures the present because, in our haste, we concede the obsolescence of the past. #
The #Ishmael series is such a concise commentary on the human ego. Particularly, the idea of The Great Forgetting http://abv8.me/2hb #
Power … it’s for the weak. #

crimulus’ weekly Twitter updates — 2010-08-22

Jeremy — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 10:20:00 +0000

Techno tried to DEFILE the metal, but techno was proven wrong!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aC6CPwu0I44 #
Now this is the way to get to work! http://abv8.me/2gI [not sure about navigating traffic though ...] #
“No one..ever lost money..underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people” ~Mencken http://abv8.me/2gJ #

crimulus’ weekly Twitter updates — 2010-08-15

Jeremy — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 10:20:00 +0000

RT @Funfacts Ed Stafford has just become the first person the walk the length of the Amazon. The 4000 miles took 2.5 years. #
As long as communication is happening, no rigidity is required of language. #
RT @slashdot The Great Typo Hunt http://bit.ly/9Hty4p #
Lenny Bruce is not afraid. #
Check out: Slash, ‘Back From Cali’ — Video Premiere http://bit.ly/cS0zPI by @SpinnerTweet #
Working out week #2 complete … feeling way better already. #
RT @slashdot How Much Smaller Can Chips Go? http://bit.ly/9Ff1fm #
Knowledge > measurable productivity #
“..1 billion extra gallons of fuel were needed to compensate for passenger weight gained between 1960 and 2002″ http://abv8.me/2gg @slashdot #
Time to muster some enthusiasm, ambition, and energy and try to finish the paneling in the livingroom … #
Smashing through the boundaries, lunacy has found me. Cannot stop the battery. #

crimulus’ weekly Twitter updates — 2010-08-08

Jeremy — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 10:20:00 +0000

Workout day 2 … not bad, but the worst part about working out before work is cooling off … #
Other than getting up late, great start to the morning. Workout day 4 … now time to do something productive. #
I am no Superman … I have no answers for you. #
Apparently using ini_set(‘max_execution_time’) in the child of pcntl_fork() is a memory leak destroyer … #PHP #
RT @slashdot Why Wave Failed http://bit.ly/bSagdn #
RT @washingtonpost The Senate just confirmed Elena Kagan as the 112th justice to the Supreme Court: http://wapo.st/bOkY8y #

crimulus’ weekly Twitter updates — 2010-08-02

Jeremy — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 10:20:00 +0000

Life is really good … it is actually COLD in my office! My coffee is steaming!! (These are only good things when it isn’t winter) #
“Does Language Influence Culture? – WSJ.com” http://abv8.me/2cO via @CeciDadisman #
The official first photograph of my new flatbed (1990 Ford F250 7.3 Diesel) http://twitpic.com/29ehhu #
RT @factlets Everyone uses the same tiny spot in the brain to read – regardless of language. http://factlets.info/reading #
RT @geekosystem World’s First Full Face Transplant Patient Appears in Public http://geekosystem.com/kmagj #
It doesn’t matter how many times I type it, I always get a kick out of “man bash” #linux #
RT @vanadaar Yes, finally you can buy anti fart butt pads! http://solutionsthatstick.com/subtle-butt-7/ “Subtle Butt” #
Where have I been? Did not know George #Steibrenner died .. (July 13, heart attack) http://abv8.me/2cP #
*Steinbrenner #
JT-Dot-Com: The original lyrics to “Endless Rain”? http://bit.ly/9iSLLq #
RT @factlets A giant cloud of hydrogen is hurtling towards our galaxy at 150 miles per second. http://factlets.info/Smith *blink*blink* #
“Go fast with the body, slow with the soul.” ~Chiana #
RT @Discovery_News John Audubon´s first engraving is found. http://ow.ly/2iUNq #

Howto: Enable PCNTL in Ubuntu PHP installations

Jeremy — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 17:51:40 +0000

PCNTL in PHP allows for some handy advanced “trickery” using the OS process functions inherent in Linux (*nix?). I believe some features are available in Windows, but I know for certain that pcntl_fork() is not.

Anyway, it is not enabled by default, so if you want to take advantage of the functions on your Ubuntu LAMP server, you might spend hours searching the web for that magic aptitude command. But, as far as I can tell, it doesn’t exist.

Luckily, I stumbled across this article on the Ubuntu forums, so I’m dedicating a post here with the hopes that other will find it more easily.

Please note that you’ll probably need build-essentials and a few other source compilation basics, but as long as you have that, the following code will get you what you want.

First, in your home directory:

mkdir php
cd php
apt-get source php5
cd php5-(WHATEVER_RELEASE)/ext/pcntl
phpize
./configure
make

Then:

cp modules/pcntl.so /usr/lib/php5/WHEVER_YOUR_SO_FILES_ARE/
echo "extension=pcntl.so" > /etc/php5/conf.d/pcntl.ini

FYI: “make install” does not appear to put the files in the correct place.

Btw, please direct any thanks/praise to skout23 on the Ubuntu forums.

crimulus’ weekly Twitter updates — 2010-07-25

Jeremy — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 10:20:00 +0000

JT-Dot-Com: 07/21/10 – Town Crier at the Blue Fox Open Mic – Blue Fox Billiards Bar & Grill – Winchester, VA http://bit.ly/cRxJQp #
RT @Discovery_News “The human fish” has broken the world´s record for longest-lived amphibian. http://ow.ly/2ervK #
Dooley was a good ole man. He lived below the mill. Dooley had two daughters and a 40-gallon still. #
‘Rochester Physicist’s Quantum-”Uncollapse” Hypothesis Verified’ http://abv8.me/2cL Old, but interesting read. #
“… about what is not observed we are still free to make suitable assumptions. We use that freedom to avoid paradoxes.” ~CFvW #
RT @Historyday On this day in 1934 notorious bank robber John Dillinger was shot & killed by federal agents in Chicago. #

crimulus’ weekly Twitter updates — 2010-07-18

Jeremy — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 10:20:00 +0000

Happy Bastille Day! #
“Actress uncovers 500-year-old church vault by accident – Telegraph” http://abv8.me/2cK Very cool! #
CCHM: Games, sports, and what defines an athlete? http://cchm.us/k #

WordPress 3.0, multi-sites, and migrating only some of your posts

Jeremy — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 17:23:45 +0000

I started my original blog a little over a year ago now simply as a way to have a place to post thoughts online. As it progressed and I started to flesh out my music site, I realized that I actually have at least 3 distinct types of thoughts I want to post: music-related, general commentary on my life, hobbies, and interests, and philosophical topics.

WordPress is extremely powerful, and I quickly began using its RSS functionality to feed my music related posts to my music website, but, as it turns out, this is kind of bad from a search engine perspective. I ended up using cross-domain canonical URLs to make Google happy. Additionally, it was kind of confusing. While I don’t really have much traffic to any of my sites, I like to pretend that I do, and it just wasn’t adding up.

Then comes WordPress 3.0 which allows you to host multiple blogs (even, unofficially, on multiple domains), so it gave me the opportunity to allocate content correctly to my domains.

There are drawbacks, of course. It’s not like you get to just make posts and decide which domain you want it on. You still have separate sites with separate management profiles, etc., it’s just that anytime you upgrade core components (such as themes, plugins, and even WordPress itself) you don’t have to do it for every blog.

Plus, all your content is in a centralized, easily accessible place. Perhaps in the future more fine-tuned enhancements will evolve, but for the time being all I had to do was some MySQL footwork (in moving the right posts to the right blogs, which was simple enough as I already had “Music” and “Philosphy” categories).

I have had crimulus.com reserved for some time as my “personal” site — projects I’m working on, hobby showcases, etc., but I never really fleshed it out. My music site, jeremytharp.com, is about 5 years old now, but it relayed podcast data, music news, etc. for anyone visiting that site, but, for a search engine, it treated it as if it were hosted on my actual blog which is at coffeecuphalfmoons.com.

To summarize, I just wanted to express how pleased I am with the feature as well as inform any readers (if you exist) of the changes.

Finally, for the technological grit, if anyone else intends to do this, I had to make a modification to my coffeecuphalfmoons.com theme.

I had plenty of indexed content, so now most of those are on crimulus.com or blog.jeremytharp.com, so links from search engines would generate a 404. I simply modified my theme’s index.php send a GET request for the $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] on each of the domains (crimulus.com and blog.jeremytharp.com) in the event that have_posts() returned false. If either of those requests returns a header code other than 404, I send a 301 redirect for that.

So, a search engine refers a user to http://www.coffeecuphalfmoons.com/a/post/that/i/moved/

I check (using cURL) to see if http://www.crimulus.com/a/post/that/i/moved/ or http://blog.jeremytharp.com/a/post/that/i/moved/ returns a 200, 301, etc. If so, then it’s probably the post that was originally referred to.

This is how you help keep pagerank value and link-juice when you’re migrating only a few posts from a blog on one domain to a blog on another. At least, that’s how I did it.

Twitter weekly updates by crimulus for 2010-07-11

Jeremy — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 06:00:11 +0000

Ok I have my first official vocal chord injury … does that make me officially a singer?
#Lebron = #idiot. There’s admittedly potential for #Miami dominance, but anticipating the ploy’s miserable #fail is thrilling.
RT @geekosystem That´s one way to get Twitter followers … http://bit.ly/ar53Lm (via @sportsgrid)
RT @Funfacts The Holland v Spain World Cup final will be the first time they have played each other in a World Cup or European tournament.
What a world cup … what a buildup to the finale. #Netherlands vs. #Spain — one will earn their very first cup. Awesome.
RT @Discovery_News Blue jean dye molecules have the potential to revolutionize the solar panel industry.
RT @factlets Beer is better than calcium for preventing osteoporosis. http://factlets.info/beer