Archive for November, 2005
I Love mPlayer
I just thought you guys would like to know that I love mPlayer. It makes playing video on linux an absolute dream. It comes with all of the codecs you need and can play dvds. Also, it is commen enough that you can get it for any common distro, in binary form. So it is a sinch to install, and a sinch to use. So it is not completely leagel, I love it and I wish it was leagel.
New Features for Blog
Well I have added a few new “features” I guess you can call them to the blog. First is the daily del.icio.us posts. I can’t always write new post every day. Generally though, I go through NewsGator everyday and I have a list of feeds that pretty much catch everything that goes on around the tech world, and good amount of the science world. So everyday I go through all of those feeds (usually about 500 posts a day to go through) and open all the good ones up in tabs. I then choose the articles that are either very good, or news and save them with del.icio.us. So my daily del.icio.us links are what I think the best of the best links of that day.
The second “feature” is a Now Playing thing that you can see below. Basically when I post with BlogJet it just looks at my iTunes and then puts it in the post. Also it links to the iTunes Music Store if you want to buy the song. I think it is just kind of cool.
Now playing: Less Than Jake - We’re All Dudes
NewsGator Server Error?
I have noticed that NewsGator is written in ASP.NET. You can tell this because of the .aspx extension on all of the files. I am fine with that. My major problem is that they make changes to their code, and don’t debug it before they send it live. This has happenend more than once. The screen to the right is a ASP.NET error message. That means that the NewsGator people must have updated something on the site, or changed some code. Normally, when you do this, you change the code and don’t send it live. You give a short debugging cycle. This problem would have been easy to spot as it is blatantly obvious that someone screwed up. Now this has happened to me more than once. What is up NewsGator?
