Al's Blog-o-Sphere

As I was saying in my last post, I tried out a Sandisk Sansa Connect when I was looking for an MP3 player. I only kept it a day and returned it.

There were, in all fairness, a lot of things I liked about it. But the thing that attracted me to it, the Wi-fi feature turned out to be a bust. Continue Reading…

I decided I wanted to get a new MP3 player recently. I’d sort of been wanting one for a while and hadn’t really seen anything I really liked.

I love the iPod (any of them) from a hardware standpoint. (Except for their proprietary connectors, but they’re not alone with that.) They’re beautiful machines. But Apple continues to insist on using them as a marketing platform to promote (force you to use) iTunes. The default way to load songs on them is iTunes, the only way to buy music online for them is iTunes, they force you to use the same computer or it wipes the player clean, nasty DRM, etc. Continue Reading…

I don’t know what happened, but this web site as well as several others I run were all broken the past couple days. Apparently, the hosting provider had some kind of failure. They’re back, except for my podcast site, and seem to be intact.

The podcast page is the worst off, though. Of course, that’s the one that’s really important to me. Somehow, a lot of the files that are part of the WordPress software that runs the blog, are gone. Thankfully, the Gallery seems to be all there. (I’d hate to restore that from my backups.)

The posts should be safe. They are in a database on a different server. If everything works right, I should just be able to reinstall WordPress and it should take off where it was. But in the meanwhile, I pointed the wnypodcast.com domain to the podcast host, Libsyn. The podcasts are accessible, but I can’t work on the main page, because it redirects to the Libsyn page and I can’t see what it is doing!

I’ve created an alternate domain for the podcast, so I can get to it, but it takes a while to set up. It’s going to be a long process, I can see.

Sorry for not posting anything in so long. Here’s something to make up for it.

Jobs vs Gates

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I updated the WordPress software on my Podcast web page and it went smoothly. I’ll have to do it here as well as soon as I get time. Between Melissa’s prom (I have photos to upload…) graduation (more photos) and a couple projects around the house, things have been busy. Watch for some posts on them when I get done.

Next weekend, I’ll be traveling to the Great Blue Heron Festival again. I had a good time last year and this year, I’m going to take the camper and go in style.