Windmills in my Mind

Natasha’s iPhone 4 is almost here; maybe she will have it this evening. I know she was pretty excited when she ordered it and I hope when she is still excited about it.

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WordPress 3.0 Beta RC is just awesome! I love the new menu system, the default theme and everything else about the new WORDPRESS.

Alright, I can sync the farthest location read between my kindle and my blackberry, text resizing works great and I do have a full screen option. This is not really a great option since it hides the location bar at the bottom (the only item other than the books’s content), which is about a few mm. What I would really love to have is a text to speech. This option would probably be more useful for a blackberry than on the kindle for two reasons.
1. You could read (hear) articles on the go (not driving) even in crowded public transport.
2. You could save the power on your blackberry since your screen could be turned off.
The next version should see more of these enhancements.
I would also like to see how this app works on a touch screen BB.

Finally Amazon has released the blackberry app for kindle. I just got my hands on the app and so far it looks great. The UI is very polished and I am already able to see my archived items from my existing kindle. Getting the books downloaded is going to take a while given the spotty 3G coverage of AT&T in my current location. I just can’t wait to try out all the features and sadly that has to wait another 8 hours. The kindle desktop manager for mac is yet to come and I am looking forward to it.

Upgraded my Ubuntu distribution on my server yesterday night and restarted; This morning I was not able to access my site. I realized that I had not recompiled my eAccelerator for the new version of PHP because I did not note that in the 280+ packages that were upgraded, PHP was one of them !!! but the site is live again.
This is what I saw in my apache error logs:

Numerical result out of range: FastCGI:

but my php log was more to the point
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It has been a while since I updated my blog. After I moved into my new house, I had re-assembled my old system and moved my server from my primary desktop. Now that I had more space, I wanted to get this second system up and running. This is a very old system and the first one I assembled/owned in the US. It has an Intel 850GB motherboard with 1.5 GB RDRAM running at 1.4 GHz (Intel Pentium 4 class single core). Though the system could handle the load, the Ubuntu server edition I had installed was giving me segfault issue frequently. Those of you who had been visiting my site would have noticed a lot of downtime thanks to all these segmentation faults. The memory was clean; verified by numerous memtest runs on them but the problem persisted.

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For all those who have been checking back on my blog, yes I have not been very active on my postings. A few of you who have my phone number have been very kind in reminding me of this. However, I have been very active on the backend. I have migrated my server from a regular desktop machine to an actual IBM server. The blog also has eAccelerator installed. I will be elaborating on this process in my forthcoming posts; so stay tuned in if you are still listening!

Winds started at 1:00 PM this afternoon. They have become stronger. The rains have just started to drizzle….

@ 10:50 PM – Winds getting Stronger !!

– Update:

@~midnight, the Hurricane hit us with full force. It was a great experience to hear the wind howling. Luckily we were safe but I can’t imagine how the affected would have been! Galveston was washed away. Lot of lives to repair.. and I guess there are certain things that even time won’t heal!!

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This is a very often encountered error on the client’s machine. I have seen many blame the JRE on the machine or UCF installation itself. Some have suggested that the user update his webtop preferences or modify windows registry. This issue however is related to the acrobat installation on the client machine. » Read more…

There was a question on the support forum today where a user wanted to hide certain attributes on the new document creation page but show it on the document properties page. This cannot be achieved by configuration in DAB as the definition would make it universal. The only way to do this is to customize the WDK component.

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