Owner: Lightning-Alley URL:http://www.lightning-alley.com Join Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2007 18:55:34 -0500 Rating:0 Site Description: My personal blog revolving around technology and photography mainly. I've also got plenty of random stuff as well!!! Site statistics:Click here
Theme Issues In IE 2007-09-14 21:39:55 Grrr, well I discovered today that some of my blogs and pages are sliding WAAAAYYY down the page in IE as more comments are added. The good news is, that means that enough comments are being added to show this problem. Thanks everyone!!! The bad news… I have to fix this problem without using IE since I don’t use IE and I don’t like IE. Fortunately, my roommate has a Winblows computer that I can use to fix the problem. This just in, I don’t like Windows… I don’t like most of their problems, errr products. Since majority of my users do run IE I’ll get on this problem and I apologize for any difficulties viewing the site!!!
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, Internet Explorer
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Solaris == Windows??? 2007-09-12 23:58:56 Ummm… yeah… Dont really know what to say about this other than the fact that it would seem that Sun has pretty much starting trudging through the sludge for money. SPARC has gone by the way side… Solaris
has no place these days (other than existing systems). But this… hmmm. I would have thought they might have considered Linux or something along these lines. Oh well… I guess they always have Java.Technorati Tags: sun, windows, microsoft, windows, solaris
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Blog Promotion Updates 2007-09-12 22:23:13 For those of you who may have missed it I have added a few more blog promotion entries to the Blog Promotion page. My secret goal is to one day amass a huge very useful list there… I’ve got a ways to go but what is there is very useful. Check it out, let me know of any services you may use or know of that I have not added!!!
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Many iPhone owners relish being first 2007-09-07 12:33:23 The articles are out, you can read them anywhere, iPhone
users complaining that the price went down after a few weeks. Here in Silicon Valley, where geek and cool can mean the same thing, most iPhone early buyers paid to be the first, and most “expensed” the $600, anyway. I think they got what they paid for.Technorati Tags: iPhone, Apple, Silicon Valley
Halo 3 2007-09-27 08:20:12 Well, day before yesterday I started playing Halo 3 with my buddies online. I must say that it is an amazing game, I was very much looking forward to playing it last night when I got home from work. As it turns out… not so much since Cox had other ideas. My internet messed up all night, so I tried to call Cox… busy signal. Go figure… I tried to play a couple of games with my 23.4 kBs connection, which resulted in nothing more than me messing up my stats… I couldn’t even work on my new web project thanks to that connection!!! I am becoming les and les pleased with Cox seeing as how they have split my internet connection with the neighbors at one point… yeah I know, their conectivity goes away and they ust turn the phones off and they are overcharging me what they quoted me for phone service. Oh well, such is life. Anyways, Halo and web stuff tonight… please!!!!
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Better is not always Bigger? 2007-09-26 15:13:12 Trying to say that bigger is not always
better, or showing an astounding inability to add (three is greater than four?) AMD tops (bottoms?) Intel with a triple-core processor….
OK, actually the intent seems to be provide different pricing points, so you can buy the core processor you need/can afford.
AMD adds tri-core Phenom to desktop lineup
Stealing a bit of rival Intel’s thunder on the opening day of its developer forum, AMD announces what it is calling a “multi-core triple threat”—triple-core Phenom processor additions to its desktop lineup. With the move, AMD aims to provide a wider selection of multi-core solutions and believes its triple-core processors may stimulate broader multi-core adoption through a product family that scales to more points-of-entry for the customer.
MMMM… hotdogs, garlic and beer!!! 2007-09-23 17:17:34 OK, this post has nothing to do with anything tech oriented&hellip
; at all. Last night we attended the Tucson Beer Festival, which was awesome, especially since Erica was able to get us free tickets. Today, football, hot dogs and roasted garlic. Eric actually gave me the idea for the roasted garlic… which I have to thank him for!!! I didn’t have much beer, but what I had was great. So the beer and the garlic are both actually healthy. The hot dogs on the other hand… big ole ball park franks on white buns, not so good for me but oh so good tasting. Again, probably a pointless blog for most of you, but the food and good times were just to good to not report!!!
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Tiger I Am Not… 2007-09-22 13:37:31 Yesterday, my buddy Eric and I went out to the golf course and shot a round of golf. We had a lot of fun and it was a beautiful morning. I ended up shooting a 92 and he ended up shooting a 99. We both left at least 10 shots on the course from rustiness&hellip
; apparently that happens when you only play twice a year. On the plus side I did hit my driver well and I putted decently, though I did miss some easy two putts. My drives averaged over 300 yards… and somehow I managed to hit a 390 yard drive on a 560 yard par 5… Eric was there to verify, I could hardly believe it myself. Hopefully we’ll be able to get back out there within the next couple weeks. I do plan to start heading to the range at least once to twice a week from this point on, I am looking to knock three strokes off my game the next time out and get back in the 80s. Of course thats the first step to qualifying for a PGA event…
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The Tsar Bomba 2007-09-21 23:28:56
Well, as some of you may know… I have a fascination with weapon technology. From time to time expect to see an article on new and old weapon technology here on Lightning-Alley. With that being said, what better place to start than the Tsar Bomba
??? For those of you who are unfamiliar with the name, maybe you might recognize it as Big Ivan. In the event that you still haven’t heard of it, heres the low down. The Tsar Bomba was essentially Russia’s answers to the US guided missiles and the like. While we may have beat Ivan to the punch, they quickly ran around us and surpassed us in size and grandeur.The Tsar Bomba was, and still is, like nothing ever seen before. At 50 megtaons, to put that in perspective that is over 4000 times more powerful than “The Bomb” that we dropped on Hiroshima. In fact, the Hiroshima bomb isn’t even a blip on the radar in comparison to The Tsar Bomba. To this day, and hopefully from this point on, nothing of the like has
Interview A Blogger: roiratjournal.com 2007-09-19 22:44:58 Well, as I mentioned yesterday, Lightning-Alley will officially start its Interview a Blogger
series today!!! With that, I bring you one of my favorite authors, Glenn Studevant of Roi Rat Journal. If you’ve yet to visit his blog, I would recommend doing so ASAP… its filled with witty banter and wacky adventures as only Glenn could tell it!!! Enough from me, on to the interview… (more…)
Interview A Blogger 2007-09-19 00:11:33 Well, this is something that I have been wanting to do for a while. There are a number of blogs that I really enjoy, some of them I comment on and some of them I just frequent. With that in mind, I have always wanted to know what drives the bloggers that to do what they do, where they come from, how they got where they are etc. From this point on I plan to try and interview a blogger every so often. I’ll be emailing the ones who accept the invitation an email with a set of questions. I will post the questions and the responses, verbatim, on the site. Hopefully we all can learn something about the bloggers!!! As a matter of fact, I should have the first one up tomorrow from Glenn over at Roi Rat Journal.
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Mycrosoft Internet Ex-plorer 8 2007-09-15 23:17:30 Haha, I stole this right out of the links on Davids Pic Blog… hilarious. The timing is perfect too seeing as how I am especially displeased with Internet
Explorer at the moment. For those of you who caught the Microsoft Zune Phone post a while back this is right up the same alley. Check out the teaser page for Mycrosoft Internet Ex-plorer 8!!! In my opinion there are some vast improvements over IE 6 and IE 7.
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What If? 2007-09-28 16:06:08 I know RBChallenger has been perusing website rankings lately and how they are affected by different types of codes and ads and click-throughs.
I have a modest proposal: We should all just pick the most popular searches/words from Google, Yahoo, or U-Tube and just go add them to our domain somewhere. So, rather than www.westpacificpizza.com, I could use www.westpacificpizzaGOOGLE.com (fake website, purely to illustrate my point)or RBChallenger could use replace www.lightning-alley.com with www.lightning-alleyBritneySpears.com (fake website, more illustration)! What do you think? OK, it’s almost certainly illegal and definitely unethical, so don’t try it without advice from your lawyer (and you have to be kind of a scumbag!)
GwanSho (tongue-firmly-in-cheek)
2007-10-11 18:51:06 Could you eat this? Hunt for natural fertilizer leads to human urine
Oct. 7, 2007
Courtesy American Chemical Society
and World Science staff
Researchers are reporting successful use of an unlikely crop fertilizer that’s inexpensive, abundant, and undeniably organic: human urine.
Despite the “yuk!” factor, healthy people’s urine is rich in nitrogen and other nutrients—and virtually sterile, the scientists said. Urine has been used as fertilizer since ancient times and its use, they found, results in good, fast-growing cabbage.
“Human urine could be used as a fertilizer for cabbage and does not pose any significant hygienic threats or leave any distinctive flavor,” they wrote in a paper detailing the findings.
(continues)
(I was unable to verify whether R Kelly was consulted on this subject)
Dodge Challenger Countdown 2007-10-18 17:25:52 The DodgeChallengerCountdown
to launch website, counting down the days, hours, minutes and seconds before the official production launch on February 6, 2008 at 11:00 am CST. I may have to trade in the Charger!!!
Google Maps latitude & longitude 2007-11-07 21:05:15 As you know, the project that I am working on, which releases March 17, 2008, makes use of DokuWiki. I have known for a bit that I need to find a way to embed Google
Maps into individual pages. Well I found it, the only problem is that the plugin requires latitude and longitudes… which Google Maps
does not give you… hmm, thats a problem!!! After a little searching around I discovered the solution to the problem. As it turns out, Google Maps center on the address you search, making the latitude and longitude the center of the map. Thats all fine and good but it still is not displayed anywhere!!! There a solution to that problem as well, once you get your map displayed simply enter “javascript:void(prompt(”,gApplication.getMap().getCenter()));” into the browser URL field and press enter. You will be greeted by a little dialog window displaying two values in parenthesis. The first of these values is the longitude and the second the latitude. Now, why isn&rs
DokuWiki Project 2007-11-06 22:11:00 Well, for those of you who may be wondering where I’ve been… I have been working on a project that I plan to release on March 17, 2008. On that note, anyone who wants to help beta test the thing let me know… I’d really love any help I can get in that manner. As to the title of this article, the project itself makes use of DokuWiki. For those of you familiar with Wikipedia its something along those lines, except Wikipedia uses MediaWiki. You might call DokuWiki MediaWiki’s lightweight, speedy cousin. They both accomplish the same goal just in entirely different ways, at least with regards to the backend. MediaWiki, and many like it, maintain their data through a database backend, typically SQL where as DokuWiki is kept in plain text, generally. That being said, it is possible to configure DokuWiki using SQL, but there really is no reason to. The nice thing about the all text format is maintability, ease of backup and human readability. Over the next Read more:Project
Red M&M’s really ARE better!!! 2007-11-06 14:21:38 Even monkeys rationalize, study finds
Nov. 6, 2007
World Science
After we make a questionable choice, we often think up—or make up—new reasons to believe it was right after all. The process is called rationalization; and although it seems pointless and silly, it does sometimes help us feel better about ourselves.Now, researchers have found that monkeys do it, too. That raises the possibility that the process is evolutionarily much older, and perhaps more automatic, than was previously believed, according to the scientists.
Louisa Egan and colleagues at Yale University in Connecticut offered capuchin monkeys a choice between M&M candies of two colors for which they had, until then, shown equal preference.
After they made the choice, though, the primates began to consistently choose again the color they had just chosen—as if they had now co Read more:better
Recent Events 2007-11-22 13:01:49 Well, life has found its way of changing best laid plans for me. What some might consider catastrophic events in my life have lead to a distinct lack of time to work on Lightning-Alley, or even my new project for that matter. That being said, the events at hand have actual been the biggest blessing in my life. More to the point of this blog, I am not sure what direction Lightning-Alley will take at this point in time. The events have lead me to be inclined to start a new blog that is very targeted and very specific. It has also lead me down the road of attempting to write a book relating the events to the world… or whoever might read it. I currently plan to keep the domain and keep it a blog for that matter. However, the updates will come few and far between for quite some time. At current, I only have 4-6 daily readers so it is not like we are discussing catastrophic terms here… hehe. As it stands, I have made some great contacts through this site and I plan to make a mo Read more:Recent
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