On my way to work, I kept fretting about yesterday's assignment and wondered if I did anything right. I was thinking about how difficult it was for me to complete with the server reverting from English to Spanish and vice versa every hour or so and the internal server errors that kept popping whenever I tried to design my clouds. I was wondering why for all the classes that I have under my belt and all the library experience I have acquired through the years, am I tech-dyslexic...i.e. if there is ever such a description for tech impaired people like me.
I was even lamenting and askasked my boyfriend last night why am I so tech-stupid and he said, "because you are a princess..." And I was like, "Awww...you're such a sweetheart!" thinking he was trying to make me feel better, until he added: "from the medieval times." I hung up on him.
Just as I was despairing over my lack of tech knowledge, what's funny is that as I was riding the elevator to the 46th floor where my area is, I glanced up to the monitor that shows the news, weather and some trivia bits and what do you know, the word of the day is: DIGERATI.
When I read the definition, it says "Persons knowledgeable about computers and technology." No need to rub salt in my wounds, I know that I may not be digerati but I'm learning to be, at the very least, capable of using new technology. I wonder now if after passing this class will I be able to change the name of my blog to DoratheDigerati...hahaha! :o)
Monday, July 2, 2007
Sunday, July 1, 2007
Bloglines Widget
http://grazr.com/gzpanel.html?addbar=off&file=http://grazr.com/data/dora.bulay/bloglinesexport.opml.xml
I am not sure why clicking on the rss for LIS2600 in my bloglines widget shows this message:
File is not available
Error: Empty file or protocol redirect
I'm not having much luck getting this assignment done :o(
ZOOM, ZOOM, ZOOM
What is up with ZoomClouds? I was in the site this morning to start the assignment but had to go to church and lunch with my family. When I got back, ZoomClouds reverted to Spanish. It's the same problem I had earlier in the week.
Like I said in the LIS2600 discussion board today...brick walls are looking attractive right now if I can find one near my house.
When finally Zoomclouds seem to stay put, my new problem is the server error:
Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.
Please contact the server administrator, webmaster@zoomclouds.com and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.
More information about this error may be available in the server error log.
Additionally, a 500 Internal Server Error error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
I tried emailing the webmaster but to no avail. I had a permanent failure to send message. How much more do I have to endure. I seriously need help with this ZoomClouds assignment!
Like I said in the LIS2600 discussion board today...brick walls are looking attractive right now if I can find one near my house.
When finally Zoomclouds seem to stay put, my new problem is the server error:
Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.
Please contact the server administrator, webmaster@zoomclouds.com and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.
More information about this error may be available in the server error log.
Additionally, a 500 Internal Server Error error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
I tried emailing the webmaster but to no avail. I had a permanent failure to send message. How much more do I have to endure. I seriously need help with this ZoomClouds assignment!
Friday, June 29, 2007
iPhone anyone?
All this hooplah about the iPhone. It's all that newspapers from the L.A. Times to the Wall Street Journal would talk about this week. I thought about getting one because the phone sounds like it has wonderful features.
I love gadgets! If and when I have extra bucks to spend, I am one to buy a gadget just to fulfill the desires of my wannabe techie heart:o) A lot of my friends were wondering if I would add an iPhone to my collection of phones that I alternately use. Currently I have a Samsung D807 from Cingular that I got with my service contract, I have a white Sony Ericsson 810i walkman phone I got from my last trip to the Philippines (because I craved a white phone) and now I have a Blackberry Pearl that my ex-boyfriend gave me because he had such big hands to own such a slim and tiny Blackberry. With this array of phones, do I want or need an iPhone? Need, well NO! Want, Yes! Yes! Yes! The phone is eye candy to gadget hounds like me. Would I line up to get it? Definitely, not. For all the hype and what sounds like a great phone, I don't know if I am willing to shell out that much money (full price) with a 2 year contract. I also don't want to get a 1st generation phone that would be re-done to have better and cooler features months from now like they did with the iPod Nano 2 years ago.
I wonder though if the wi-fi feature will deliver well enough that you can dispense of your laptop and just use this all in one mobile communicator. That remains to be seen.
I love gadgets! If and when I have extra bucks to spend, I am one to buy a gadget just to fulfill the desires of my wannabe techie heart:o) A lot of my friends were wondering if I would add an iPhone to my collection of phones that I alternately use. Currently I have a Samsung D807 from Cingular that I got with my service contract, I have a white Sony Ericsson 810i walkman phone I got from my last trip to the Philippines (because I craved a white phone) and now I have a Blackberry Pearl that my ex-boyfriend gave me because he had such big hands to own such a slim and tiny Blackberry. With this array of phones, do I want or need an iPhone? Need, well NO! Want, Yes! Yes! Yes! The phone is eye candy to gadget hounds like me. Would I line up to get it? Definitely, not. For all the hype and what sounds like a great phone, I don't know if I am willing to shell out that much money (full price) with a 2 year contract. I also don't want to get a 1st generation phone that would be re-done to have better and cooler features months from now like they did with the iPod Nano 2 years ago.
I wonder though if the wi-fi feature will deliver well enough that you can dispense of your laptop and just use this all in one mobile communicator. That remains to be seen.
Linux, a coder and a murder case
I got the July 2007 issue of Wired Magazine and I saw an article about a guy who is a brilliant coder, a Linux geek and a murder suspect...Hans Reiser. Hans Reiser was known in the tech world as "a cantakerous but visionary open source programmer, whose work was funded by the government and that he was widely credited and reviled for rethinking the structure of the Linux operating system." Last year, Reiser was accused for murdering his ex-wife, Nina, who went missing in September and whose body is yet to be found.
It was the mention of Linux that got my attention since I figured I might get some info that I could write about in the blog. Sure, I learned about file systems. I learned how a file system organizes data on a computer, how it tells the processors where to find data, how it decides how to place info on the hard drive. Reiser says that "a file system represent the roads and waterways of the operating system."
As a casual user of computers (by casual I mean I know how to type, to use some programs, get on the internet to find online information, shop etc.) I'm not one to know the intricacies of programming. If you ask me about operating systems and file systems, I give you a blank look and maybe bat my eyelashes and smile to indicate what I want to blurt out which is..."hmmm, I dunno!"
This article gave me a bit of an insight of how the mind of programmers work. Although I saw the Linux part as a possible point of topic for my tech blog, the nosy-law-and-order-detective-wannabe in me prevailed because in the end it was the juicy bits of the murder case that held my interest :o) The article was well written in a geeky way...actually, it's interesting if a bit troubling.
Here's a link to the article:
http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/magazine/15-07/ff_hansreiser?currentPage=1
It was the mention of Linux that got my attention since I figured I might get some info that I could write about in the blog. Sure, I learned about file systems. I learned how a file system organizes data on a computer, how it tells the processors where to find data, how it decides how to place info on the hard drive. Reiser says that "a file system represent the roads and waterways of the operating system."
As a casual user of computers (by casual I mean I know how to type, to use some programs, get on the internet to find online information, shop etc.) I'm not one to know the intricacies of programming. If you ask me about operating systems and file systems, I give you a blank look and maybe bat my eyelashes and smile to indicate what I want to blurt out which is..."hmmm, I dunno!"
This article gave me a bit of an insight of how the mind of programmers work. Although I saw the Linux part as a possible point of topic for my tech blog, the nosy-law-and-order-detective-wannabe in me prevailed because in the end it was the juicy bits of the murder case that held my interest :o) The article was well written in a geeky way...actually, it's interesting if a bit troubling.
Here's a link to the article:
http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/magazine/15-07/ff_hansreiser?currentPage=1
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