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Google Easter Egg: The Shire to Mordor

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shiretomordormap Google Easter Egg: The Shire to Mordor

If you go to Google Maps, click “Get Directions,” select walking, and search for directions from The Shire to Mordor, you get a Lord of the Rings warning in the form of an easter egg that “One does not simply walk into Mordor.”

Google must be putting these out to celebrate Google I/O eve 2013.

WordPress Users on Dreamhost: Upgrade PHP

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For the past few days, I’ve noticed that my sites were running EXTREMELY slow. I hadn’t made any changes so I checked the server’s side. I noticed that all my domains were still running on PHP 5.2.x, which was not recommended. Not sure if this was the reason why my sites were slowed to a crawl, but everything seems to be running ok now.

Here’s how I “upgraded”:

  1. Go to Manage Domains in the control panel: https://panel.dreamhost.com/index.cgi?tree=domain.manage&
  2. Click on Edit for that domain.
  3. Under PHP mode, pick PHP 5.3 or PHP 5.4, both work with WordPress.
  4. Then hit ‘Change settings’
  5. Wait ten minutes and everything should be golden.

Forget Google Reader, it’s Star Wars Reader!

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Since Google announced it’s killing off Google Reader in July, I’ve been using feedly. But forget that for now…

Check out StarRSS. It’s a Star Wars themed/based RSS feed reader.  It just looks like the opening credits of every Star Wars movie. The posts fly past you in space, complete with the theme music by John Williams. Click on the links and it’ll take you to the post. Check out what my feed looks like here.

Open VLC > Media File Menu > Open Network Stream > Paste http://112.170.78.145:50000/chosun > Press Play > Wait > Watch North Korean TV

A is for Alienware

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IMG 0147 A is for Alienware

This almost looks like it’s a photoshopped or computer-generated image to me. But it’s not. It’s a picture of my laptop. Geeky, I know.

The light is coming from my desk lamp–maybe a little too bright? I couldn’t get the white balance to work with the blue in the letters. They’re all wacky, even compared to the blue from the alien head.

Anyways, this is the first image in a project I’m calling Project A-Z where I’m forcing myself to take a picture first using A then with all the subsequent letters in the alphabet.