Well that was painless! I just upgraded my Wordpress install to the latest version and it worked first time; if only all things in life were that simple!
You can tell I have been working in the software industry too long when I express amazement that something software related actually works 
Quite possibly the greatest 4 minutes 40 seconds of a film ever:
Well wherever it is you want to go chances are you aren’t going to get there using Google Maps. I thought I would break my hiatus from blogging with a rant. Over the last couple of months every time I viewed a site with a Google map, it wouldn’t load properly (see below):
Anyway, I figured that perhaps my ISP was blocking the images or maybe my Internet connection was just slow but it seems it’s happening to other people too; I spoke to some friends and they, too, have had similar problems. I don’t use Google maps that often but it’s annoying when I do use it and they don’t work. Any ideas?
PS: As I write this, for some reason, I am unable to send email from my Gmail account using my desktop mail client. Instead of “Don’t be evil”, how about “Don’t be shit”. Much more appropriate given my recent experiences.
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A friend of mine, Chema, filmed a documentary about social injustices a while ago and he has just put the video online. You can view it here: No Con Mi Silencio, which translates as “Not with my silence”, or something like that. It’s in Spanish and can be viewed on the website.
I just tried sending an email from my GMail account but I got a response back pretty quick saying that delivery had failed; I was pretty certain the email address was valid.
Looking at the response in greater detail I noticed that it had failed because a relay somewhere along the chain had blocked the message coming from GMail; you can see why here.
Technical details of permanent failure: PERM_FAILURE: SMTP Error (state 16): 550-gmail.com is in the AHBL (rhsbl.ahbl.org). For more info see: 550-http://www.ahbl.org/tools/lookup.php?ip=gmail.com 550 gmail.com - trelane - Google GMail, relaying child pornography spam
According to the response that I got, it appears that GMail has somehow got itself on an abusive hosts lists for apparently “relaying child pornography spam”. Strange! Anybody else having this problem?
Whatever happened to “don’t be evil”
BBC News: “But they all maintain their innocence and lawyers observing the trial have suggested acquittals may be more likely than convictions because while turning Swissair’s $3bn cash balance into multi-million dollar debts in just a few years may be very stupid, it isn’t necessarily a crime.”
This just has to be seen: Darth Vader Rap.
I have been thinking a lot recently about methods of delivering large media files, e.g. video, mp3 etc, and playing them online. Think YouTube. You can either stream the file or use HTTP (progressive) download. My question is this: why would you want to stream a file? It seems to me that, with a few exceptional cases, streaming files is unnecessary. I am trying to come up with a list of pros and cons for streaming (large) media files.
Even though I have only come up with a few negatives I am not convinced that streaming files is necessary in the majority of cases. Podcasts are a good example where just downloading the file is sufficient. Thoughts? Feel free to add any comments.
Due to popular demand - well, one person asked for it - I have added (reverse) geocoding to my map application. In plain English, this means that you can enter your address and the application will zoom to that location on the map; hopefully, this will be less painful than having to get to your starting point by dragging/zooming around. Currently this only works for U.S. addresses as - as far as I am aware - the Google Maps API only supports U.S. addresses.
BBC News: Web 2.0 ‘distracts good design’
Check out some of the funky graphic animations on this guy’s web page - scroll down to the “Research” section; the animations start there.
