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BlogAfter my
last two updates about my phone, I thought I'd cross over into obsession status and give one final update. Verizon sent me a "factory refurbished" replacement at no charge which made me quite happy. What made me even more happy is that this "factory refurbished" replacement appears to be a brand new phone. There isn't a scratch on it and it still had the protective plastic covers over the screen and graphitti area. Whats more, I now have what appears to be a newer revision of my phone: higher model number, upgraded antenna, more solid hinge, and a louder speaker. The memory chip date is the same as my old phone which means
this update is blasphemous. The date must mean design date and not manufacture date. That or June 17th was a very busy day at the memory chip plant.
Now that
FutureMark is charging for their benchmark utilities, I thought it was high time to find an alternative. Enter
FreshDiagnose. While not as thorough a benchmark as FutureMark, it more than makes up for it in detailed system analyzation, and still gives you an overall number for your system to use for comparison. Even better, it spits out an HTML report to your local disk instead of requiring you to logon to an
online results browser to get your results. Naturally, I ran it on all three of my computers:
Electron,
Neutron and of course this server:
ProtonX.
Steve's bachelor party was this past weekend and we all went to
Planet Rock in Ann Arbor to celebrate. It's an indoor climbing gym with walls over 100 feet tall. After learning about belaying and how (not) to fall we set out to make fools of ourselves, but after 15-20 minutes we started catching on and made it to the top quite a few times. The beginners package included an all-day pass but after 3 hrs it was too painful to even hold a cup of water. Afterwards we went to a local titty bar and got blasted out of our minds. No idea what happened after that. In the end, successful bachelor party.
After hoping for a local Verizon outage to be the culprit, it turns out my Kyocera 7135 has dialed it's last number. After many hard resets and at least two OTA programming sessions the phone will now do nothing other than display "Service Required. Contact Provider." Using the power of
Google I found
this thread spelling out my phones doom. Fortunately the Palm side of the phone still works great so I won't forget who I am, who I know, or what I'm supposed to be doing. I've been told to purchase the
Treo 600 as a replacement by an associate, but the screen is the same resolution as my current phone so I can't justify it. That and the fact that I have no money means I'll probably go the factory refurbished replacement route. Wish me luck, and if I don't answer when you call now you know why.
My phone has been searching for service for the past hour. When I finally got service it returned "Network Busy" after trying to dial for 30 seconds and went back to searching. Where I normally have 5 or 6 towers listed as active I now have only one single tower with a very low recieve power. The
www.vztext.com website is down but there is no news of an outage in Google news. Either my local area has an outage, or my phone has decided to die. If you have Verizon and lost service, let me know so I don't feel so naked.
It's the latest fad, so I had to do it. That and the challenge of getting ASP 3.0 to output the proper date format made it all worthwhile. In case you're wondering, I'm talking about some
XML called
RSS (Really Simple Syndication). It dumps my blatherings into a standard XML format that a standalone reader can parse and import. The advantage being if you have five other friends who also blather frequently you can read everything from one place instead of visiting each website individually. There are supposedly alot of other advantages but I think most of them were made up by people who got overly excited about XML. Regardless, I'm on the bandwagon. Just click that fancy RSS icon (
) for the XML feed. I personally like
RSSReader but you need the .net framework so
Google can help you out if that's not your style. Of course if you're reading this THROUGH a news reader you won't see those links, but then again you'll already have a reader so the catch-22 is complete.
The last
major upgrade on this server was almost a year ago. As a result, some software has become outdated and (gasp) potentially vulnerable. I've begun my update process starting with an upgrade to the
latest version of PHP. All appears to be working great, but like most system changes I'm sure it will break something obscure and I won't discover it for awhile. If you happen to notice an oddity please let me know, or just keep it to yourself and cackle maniacally. If you're asking yourself "Self, why didn't he just go to PHP 5?" The reason is simple: fear. I'm not sure everything I've written will work well with 5. Much testing to be done.
After upgrading my media player, I noticed I have 1337 items in my playlist totalling 6.66GB. This and many more
signs have convinced me I can no longer hide my true identity, I'm a L33t Devil Man!
From 10:34am - 1:16pm this server was unavailable due to maintenance work on the ISP that connects it to the internet.
Gnome cam and
Blacknova Traders continued to update during the outage. No other impact was observed (aside from mass panic experienced primarily by
this guy).
This weekend was "
Hamilfest," a yearly tradition of drag strip, camping, and drinking. It starts out with a bunch of Cougars at a drag strip in St. Thomas, Ontario, then progresses to camping at a Canadian park. Some beer and burgers are added to create the slap happy atmosphere. The end result of which is always entertaining. This year we were able to drive on a beach, which was hands down the most fun I've had in my Cougar.
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