A few years ago, I woke up in the middle of the night. I was in my bed on my back, my eyes were open a slit, and I couldn’t feel myself breathing. Try as I might, I couldn’t move or really do anything for that matter, except for coming to the conclusion that I was dying. I lost consciousness, and somehow woke up the next day.
A few months later, I had gone to bed early, and woke up not long after having fallen asleep, and again in the same situation. I couldn’t move, didn’t think I was breathing, and this time, there was also loud ringing in my ears. It got louder and louder, and then I again lost consciousness, but woke up soon after, completely fine, although a little worried about what might be happening to me.
As it turns out, I suffer from Sleep Paralysis. Read more…
If there is one company that could really compete with Microsoft in the operating system market, it’s probably Google. Whether it would be worth it for them or not, I don’t know, and I would imagine they’d probably have to go with a Google flavor of Linux, but they do have a few things going for them.
They have the Google brand name. A problem I think any new OS developer faces is that no matter how good their product may be, unless they’re a giant, many people will be hesistant to switch over. After all, if Microsoft Windows is working fine, how can any individual or company be sure that a new OS isn’t going to cause them massive headaches. Even if it’s cheaper or free, is it really worth the risk? Since people are familar with Google, know how to use Google’s services, and in general are not confronted by issue after issue with Google’s services already, I think people would be more likely to “trust” that a Google OS isn’t going to leave them with a bad experience.
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Before I begin, a little primer on how wireless internet access works here in Manitoba. The ISP (internet service provider) puts a big honking antennae up somewhere. You then have an antennae or “dish” installed on your roof/garage/tower, or another area high enough that something like a bus passing your house won’t knock out your internet connection. That antennae is hooked up to something resembling a cable modem, which then hooks up to your computer/router/etc. Now these are both 2-way transmitter/receivers, which means you don’t need to also use a phone line (the way satellite systems work). They’re also (surprisingly) pretty low-latency. What this means is that you gamers out there can play your online games without getting “lag”. Now on to my story… Read more…
For the past few days, I’ve been planning to put together a blog hosting website. A blog hosting site seems to make sense… Blogs are more popular than ever, and providing you have some unused web hosting space, you can use your existing webspace to put up a hosting site.
First, a few conditions I came up with for a successful blog hosting site. After all, with MySpace, MSN Spaces, Blogger, Wordpress, and then the realm of blogging sites you can install on your own webspace, there’s really a lot of competition.
- free (most of the popular blog hosts are)
- profitable (gotta pay for the domain name and web space at the very least)
- easy to use, feature filled blogging available
- somewhat easy to maintain
Now here is the big problem. Read more…
With a directory script recently installed to an add-on domain on my website, since the script was kind enough to create sitemaps for me, I decided that I may as well let Google know about the sitemap.
I’ve done this a few times before… basically all you have to do is put the sitemap on your website, then log in to your Google Sitemaps account, and enter the URL to the sitemap. To make sure that the website is really yours, Google tells you to create an empty file with a cryptic name like google2378798124.html which you must put in the same directory as the sitemap. The logic being of course that if you have enough access to the site to upload a file, chances are it’s ok if you’re granted access to some of Google’s information relating to that site.
So I created the file, and uploaded it with FileZilla. Then I clicked the verify button.
Unfortunately it wouldn’t verify, and instead I was presented with an unpleasant message… Read more…
