In attempt to be able to provide everything you could ever need under the sun, Google now provides weather search via Web or SMS. Version 1.0 of their Desktop Search is now available as well, and they have some useful plugins as well. This is one of Google’s products that has actually been taken out of beta (something that even Google jokes about).
What NOT To Do With Your Freezer
This is what happens when you don’t bother to even look in your freezer in your garage for months:
That was after it had been sitting in the direct sun for 90 minutes. I guess prior to this, the doors were completely frozen over as well. That bag of ice sitting on the ground was discovered after some of the frost had melted off. The freezer was pulled out of a house a friend of mine deals with here in Sunriver, and nobody had bothered to use/check that freezer since they installed a nicer refrigerator (with freezer) in the house.
An hour later, things melted down a bit more, and this was found:
Yes, that’s some leftover chicken. God only knows how long that’s been buried in the frost in there.
My recommendation? Just take the thing to the dump and burn it.
Still Looking For That Right Lady?
Just follow the advice of the Bible, and you’ll easily find your perfect mate.
Addicting Flash Game
This reminds me of the Smack The Penguin game I posted a while back. This one, while in Japanese, is horribly addicting (wish I knew what some of the characters in there meant). I’ve seen it posted in a few places, but haven’t had a chance to try it until now. So far, my best is 1108.16 1609.04m 1929.37m. Can you beat it?
Updated with working link for Penguin post.
Updated again on 3/7: Link to mirror of game.
Best Marketing Gimmick Ever
After reading the comments of this entry, it’s obviously not completely full of cash, but I still think this is pretty dang slick.
Why Craigslist is Fun
I only wish we had a Craigslist for Central Oregon (they exist for Eugene and Portland). The great thing about Craigslist (which has newspapers shaking) is its user-centered focus, and free listings. It’s very quickly bringing in traffic that might usually go to a local newspaper.
The problem with such popularity is the whack-jobs it can bring out. But the best part is when you know how to have fun with the loonies that show up on there.
Like this guy, who, using Craiglist LA, is trying to recreate the A-Team. Some got the joke, some were deadly serious about helping.
And then there’s the lady that replies to some of the sick perversion personals ads on there and posts the conversations on her blog.
There are some genuinely sick and twisted people out there, that’s for sure. I’m just glad we have the Internet so we can all share in their weirdness and feel better in knowing that, compared to these people, we’re all completely normal.
Are You Drunk?
Just fill out this form and find out. Or have your non-drunk friend do it for you.
Installing ClamAV and Exiscan on cPanel
I’m mostly documenting this here so that when/if I have to move to another server again, I have this documented somewhere. This will setup server-side e-mail scanning on cPanel servers using Exiscan and ClamAV.
- First, follow these wonderful directions to get version .75 of ClamAV installed onto your system. That page also gives you the information on how to setup your Exim configuration in WHM properly to filter things.
- Next, make sure you run an “ln -s /etc/clamav.conf /etc/clamd.conf” command as a root user (thanks to the tip here). The reason you do this is that upgrades to ClamAV that have been posted in the cPanel forums use a differently named config file, but the information in those files is the same so this makes it so that you can call it by either name and be good to go.
- You very well may need to update your zlib, otherwise the update to .83 won’t work. Follow the commands in this post to make sure you have zlib 1.2.2 or higher on your server.
- You can then update to .83 by following the directions in this post (it refers to .82, but that will bring you up to .83, as the file it refers to has since been updated). After it’s all said and done, run “clamscan -V” from the command line, and you should be good to go.
New York Times Going For Google Gold
The New York Times is redesigning their site and creating static topical pages whose links will never change, undoubtedly in an attempt to get those pages listed high on Google results. Full Story.
“I’m Watching You, Jimmy”
For the ultimate in lazy parents, Microsoft is working on a stuffed animal that will watch your kids for you so you don’t even have to be in the same room to interact with your kids.