Saving the blog from a death

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Looking back at my last post about where I discussed the problem with my blog as it stands where it did not get updated for a long period of time.  This was mostly because of the want for this blog to be somewhat of a blog that “I would want to read.”  I my case this end up being a tech blog.  I also noticed the other blog post that would be completely off topic.

I wrote that first paragraph for two reasons, the first being that I had time, and the second was that after that last post that I had it felt like the blog had died.  To me, this was a message that made me think about what I was writing to my audience.

From the tracking system I am pleased to announce that is appears that this blog is not read at all.  So this gives at least me the idea the blogs are not for other to read (expect in rare cases) but for one to write, and then, as I said before, once and a while a random blog will have something useful, but one will find it not because they read that blog on a daily bases but because they can use a search engine to quickly find what they are looking for.  The blog only gives a way to quickly write document that can posted online with little effort.

Having said that this blog is not read (which is what the tracking system is saying) the most popular page on my site is the unPacker and that has a steady supply of people going to that page every day now.  This is also the most linked page on my site.  What I find so funny about the fact that the unPacker is the most popular page is that I only made it in response to a forum posting in which the first version of this I made in under 1 hour.  Then when I had a large number of people coming to that page on a daily bases my friend wanted to upgrade the layout on that page, and I have keep upgrade that system ever since.  Now the code is at version 1.2 and I have moved the page layout over the 960.gs along with the rest of the the site.

The main purpose of this blog post is for me not to have had the last post on such a down beat.

Also if you would like to follow the tech part of this blog yo u can get the rss feed off on of the topics that I use quite a bit and am vary good about what articles go where.

What to blog

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For some time I have tried to make a blog about what I found useful or cool. But from what I can tell no reads this blog with any real dedication. Which makes me prompt the question to myself that if I should just start writing more on the blog just so that they are so few post or if I should try and keep with I was doing with wring useful content.
Looking back at what I have there is some tech stuff (like from the blogs that I read) but then mixed in there is the random parts from my life mixed in.
If you read for the tech then you would care non for what is about me and visa versa.
I think about the random blogs that I find are from Google and have that one post that makes the blog useful to me, but most of the other stuff is lost one for lack of interest on that topic. I think that a blog for the most part is not something that is followed via rss feed but is used to keep up to date website with little effort and have a way for users to give feed back to the author and the blog are found from Google.

In summary: write more post on more topics and get more exposure on Google.

Bill Gates vs General Motors

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I have no idea if this is true but it is worth something.

Bill Gates vs General Motors

At a recent computer expo (COMDEX), Bill Gates reportedly compared the
computer industry with the auto industry and stated, “If GM had kept up with
technology like the  computer industry has, we would all be driving $25.00
cars that got 1,000 miles to the gallon.”

In response to Bill’s comments, General Motors issued a press release
stating: If GM had developed technology like Microsoft, we would all be
driving cars with the following characteristics (and I just love this part):

1.    For no reason whatsoever, your car would crash twice a day.

2.    Every time they repainted the lines in the road, you would have to
buy a new car.

3.    Occasionally your car would die on the freeway for no reason. You
would have to pull to the side of the road, close all of the windows, shut
off the car, restart it, and  reopen the windows before you could continue.
For some reason you would simply accept this.

4.    Occasionally, executing a maneuver such as a left turn would cause
your car to shut down and refuse to restart, in which case you would have to
reinstall the engine.

5.    Macintosh would make a car that was powered by the sun, was
reliable, five times as fast and twice as easy  to drive – but would run on
only five percent of the roads.

6.    The oil, water temperature, and alternator warning lights would all
be replaced by a single “This Car Has  Performed An Illegal Operation”
warning light.

7.    The airbag system would ask “Are you sure?” before deploying.

8.    Occasionally, for no reason whatsoever, your car would lock you out
and refuse to let you in until you simultaneously lifted the door handle,
turned the key and grabbed hold of the radio antenna

9.    Every time a new car was introduced car buyers would have to learn how to drive all over again because none of the controls would operate in the same manner as the old car.

10.    You’d have to press the “Start” button to turn the engine off.

Cams Vex Regional

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Today my team did a great job at the Cams vex regional.  We were the first place team out.  And the head of the first place alliance.

687D (my team): head of the top alliance and going to world

687B: Second place on alliance and also going to world

569C (I think this is right but do not quote me): Third place of alliance, also won the programming and driving challenge.

687K: won the excellence award and will also be coming to world.

Cams Robotics

WordPress

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Now I have moved my site and Blog over to WordPress.  When looking at my home page, I saw that it was doing a ajax load of the rss feed from my blog, as I had set up.  I noticed that I had very little content to put on the home page.  I did not start out this site with the plan that the home page would be a blog, but that is what it became.  And so now I am using wordpress with its cms to run this site.  I still have the files that were from before, such as the unPacker.

If you are thinking of trying wordpress, I would recommend it to my more technical friend.  This is only because I made my own theme based on what it looked like from before, but I am really liking wordpress and am finding the very easy to use.

Some jokes

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Computers are high-speed idiots, programmed by low-speed idiots.
I’d like to make the world a better place, but they won’t give me the source code.
Software developers like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily available, they will create their own problems.
Two bytes meet. The first byte asks, “Are you ill?” The second byte replies, “No, just feeling a bit off.”
Russian roulette: [ $[ $RANDOM % 6 ] == 0 ] && rm -rf / || echo *Click*
how many M$ programmers does it take 2 change a light bulb?none they just make darkness a standard &tell everyone this behavior is by design
*nix is user friendly. It’s just very particular about who its friends are.

A son asked his father(a programmer) why the sun rises in the east, and sets in the west. His response? It works, don’t touch!

It compiles! Let’s ship it.

In C we had to code our own bugs. In C++ we can inherit them.
There are 10 kinds of people in the world: Those that know binary & those that don’t

The new (insert current fast processor, but when I heard it, the value was “cray”) is so fast, it can execute an infinite loop in only 3 seconds.

A biologist, an engineer, and a mathematician are staking out an empty house.

They see two people walk in.

Later, they see three people walk out.

The biologist says, “They must have multiplied!”

The engineer says, “I think it was measurement error.”

The mathematician says, “Now, if exactly one person walks into the house, it will have zero people in it again

Jokes from: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/234075/what-is-your-best-programmer-joke

960

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I have update the home page of my site using the Css framework 960 to organize all of the content on the home page from before when it was a mess. I have also made a new color them using white, black, orange, and gray on this page. I think that it looks a lot better. Tell me what you think in a reply.

Something

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I was looking at the info that was take from one of my appjet apps, and well take a look at the app first. You will need to reload the page a few times.
The App
After looking at the App for a minuet look at the info that it has gathered. The Info
At least it is not as bad as it could be.

The unPacker again

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The JavaScript unPacker is getting a lot of attention and I do not think that every one understands it. The unPacker was made to make code that was packed by the /packer/(with base62) human readable again. 99% of the code that comes out works without any changes, then running the code through FireFox with Firebug you should be able to easily find the error and fix the code. When I was testing the unPacker, I was unpacking jQuery, there would be about 3 error in the code, but I was able to find the error and fix the code in under 5 min with Firebug. (jQuery packed is about 32KB and about 52KB minified and it was designed to be able to be packed).
All the problem that I have heard about the unPacker I think are counter with what it is and can be used for. The basic idea was to be better that the replacing the eval with an alert to get all of the JavaScript in one long line. (jQuery in an alert is about 50,000 Character in one line)

The forum that I follow related to the unPacker.
The unPacker.

Ubiquity

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I have made another Appjet web site. This time it is for making Ubiquity commands and being able to distribute them at the click of a button. It is free and easy to get going with a small simple command. If you do not have Ubiquity yet then you can try it at http://labs.mozilla.com/projects/ubiquity/. Then head over here to get some new commands to try out.

So far I have the Ip-get app, that will determine your Ip address. “Quote” that gets a quote from my quote Appjet site and can insert it in to any text field.