iMatt :: The Blog of Matt Clare

We launched the University Teaching Podcast last week at work. As with many podcasts, production qualities are low, and they have this silly kid doing the intros, but we hope to grow on all fronts over time.

On another podcastsing note, the CBC is conducting a survey on Podcasts. It took me 10 minutes and I ticked off ‘likely’ and ‘frequently’ on most options, but it might take you less time.

I heard about this craigslist.com post on TWIT. It’s a very funny post by someone who had his motorcycle sparkplugs stolen for use as a crackpipe.

“Hey Crackhead”, www.craigslist.org/about/best/sfo/27499971.html

Here’s a sample to prove this post is worth your time and reading a few explitives:

But you couldn’t just let sleeping dogs lie, could you Crackhead. You couldn’t just stay in on Friday, watch Letterman through the window of a home electronics store and then call it a night. You couldn’t rest on your laurels. Two porcelain sparkplug crackpipes just wasn’t enough for you, was it Crackhead? You just had to come back for more.

Here’s an Acura 1.7 EL that’s a lot like mine but with rims, wind guards and skirtting. I like the skirts and think it might be a nice addition to my EL, but I think the funniest part is this web page, created to sell the rims for this dressed up EL, is hosted at www.greenhavensc.com, Green Haven Sun Club. The Green Haven Sun Club is a Nudest/Naturist club.

Dressed up cars for dressed down people.

UPDATE: Want to compare this ^ EL to my car? It’s now the picture for the Acura EL article on Wikipedia.

Remember when I said I had two new web sites to create, one was still born: paypalimony.com.

More info to come, but I wanted to make this space available for comments.

Sorry my site was down today.

I reauthorized comments the blog on Thursday after installing Hascash. Friday afternoon I was alerted that I had excessive growth in my error log. I attempted to correct the PHP Warning: ob_start(): output handler 'ob_gzhandler' cannot be used after 'URL-Rewriter' warning over the weekend but apparently did not completely fix it. I’ve since found the wordpress support document that details that Firefox doesn’t trigger the error.

Thus, today Potent Products, as detailed in their Terms of Serivce, has not tolerance for errors in your log file and make a habit of reading your log file. My website was shutdown and I was cut off from my E-Mail. I was able to negotiate a 24 hour reprieve and immediately placed the PHP command error_reporting(0); on the top of the offending page to suppress the warning (as it’s not an actual error and the site still works). I’ve since traced the problem to having wordpress’s bandwidth saving gzip function enabled and the hascash tool.

Thus I would recommend Potent Product’s web hosting to anyone who’s looking for a host who will shut their web site down before they consume 0.01MB of your alloted storage space within 48 hours. It’s good to know they’re there looking over your shoulder.