Cristiano on Tech/Life

So, I had a bit of a scare this morning as Site5 (my hosting provider) had understood my technical request wrong and had bluntly deleted my blog, including the files. Lucky for me the database was still there, and I could recover most of the file I uploaded to Wordpress from my old IbbyDibby install that was still present on that server. I did lose my theme though so I spend most of my day getting it back to work again. It seems like I got most of it back, including Polyglot (bilingual blogging) and some other things. Still need to install some stuff though (OpenID support and hAvatar) and fix some minor bugs in the theme (see the tags widget on the right). This just learned me to also make backups of stuff I put on my service provider.

Can someone tell me if the RSS feed they registered to before is still working? Don’t remember how I had set it up.

• Nicholas Carr’s Blog: Through the Kindle window
  Nicholas Carr takes a look at the Kindle and is amazed with its perfect integration with the amazon store. Don’t get what the fuzz is about with that exactly as the iPod is famous for its seamless integration with the itunes store. Obviously the Kindle t
  (tags: kindle web2.0 Internet Amazon trends future commentary haveread)
• Schrodingers LolCat
  (tags: Schrodingers Cat Quantum)
• “w00t” crowned word of year by U.S. dictionary
  W00t has been defined as the word of the year? WTF? What about LolCats?

  (tags: language dictionary wordoftheyear humor)
• Sam Sethi Shuts Down Blognation
  Well, that was so unexpected (NOT). What a scam artist.
  (tags: samsethi blognation scam)

So, I was trying to get my PS2 EyeToy to work on my G4 Mac Mini for a while now. I had done this a while back on a Windows machine and I loved it, so I was hoping it would be a breeze to get to work in Mac OS X. It took a while though to get it working, not because it was difficult to do or something, but simply because there was only one place on the whole internet that gave me an interesting link! So now I will try to make a more Google accessible blog post that can serve as a point to go to for everyone in the future.
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