Server Maintenance

What is this about? WordPress.com isn’t allowing comments to go through based on ‘my’ server maintenance?

Your server is going through a few minutes of routine maintenance. Please don’t touch your browser for a few minutes.
What do I do?

If you were posting a comment or making a post on your blog then do not press BACK on your browser. Wait 5 minutes and press the refresh icon on your browser. Your comment or post will be sent as normal.

If you are browsing a blog here just wait a few moments and hit refresh. The page you were expecting will appear.

I’ve never come across this before. When will it end!?

Park Planning

Surrounded by green and brown and ants, tickles up my neck and down my spine; there is a light wash over my fingers, typing softly, as the breeze almost lifts my umbrella away. The umbrella, found alone on the sidewalk a few nights ago, provides enough shade to resolve my computer’s battle with the glare from the sun. Atop my head, an hour past noon, rays warm my head and tired eyes. I’m getting that sensation of pressure behind my neck, usually a result of calm and lack of sleep, which I enjoy. Sammy has formed the spitting image of a lobster with thin twigs. A ‘rock lobster’, as she sings.

“Africa it up. Then New Caledonia – Pacific it up!” We’re planning a trip, spur of the moment, through a few continents, “Final destination: Eurotrash.”

Netjaxer

An interesting program that enables you to run Web2.0 [web apps] from your desktop. It actually just looks like a desktop-shortcut creator, but it does come with a Netjaxer browser you can use to run the programs from instead of [or as well as] your default browser.

I’ve installed and used this application and I can see no purpose for it. All it enables you to do is create shortcuts to your favourite web apps on your desktop, start menu, startup or quick launch. You can also minimise the program into your system tray.

One benefit I could see in using Netjaxer would be to quickly startup a document [like Writely or Gmail] within Netjaxer’s streamline browser without having to go through your default browser – which in my case is Firefox and has been using up a lot of unnecessary memory lately.

Google Earth on Conan

Just quickly:

Last night I was watching Late Night with Conan O’brien and I noticed something I thought was interesting. My understanding is Conan’s been to Finland already but here in Australia we get his show aired a few days later so this episode was before he’s his trip [it may have been a fairly old episode anyway].

I don’t know if anyone noticed, however, but during Conan talking about how long the trip will be, from New York to Helsinki, a graphic of Google Earth panning between either city played.

How cheap, I thought.

I’m looking for video of it.

Theme-a-day from If Else

Phu Ly from IfElse.co.uk fronts a great site and has started something interesting. He’s putting up an original theme every day to run on WordPress [the platform I use to make this site happen]. I have actually changed up the site and used his latest one – from Day3 – and mixed it up a bit, but, depending on what he brings out during the next few days, I might have a new look very soon. Nice work!