David Precious has released a perl library for the Webthumb API. Its available on CPAN, WebService::Bluga::Webthumb Thanks David.
Blog fixing
Just realized enscript isn’t installed on my server anymore so all my posts with highlighted code examples were broken. Sorry about that, fixed now.
Webthumb Status Update
There was an Webthumb outage yesterday, the main server Kernel Panic’d and didn’t reboot properly. DNS was switched to the backup server, and for most users there was no noticable change. However there was a bit of database skew between…
FF Draft is done
I just completed my first real fantasy football draft of the season. I think i had a better mock earlier in the day, but I was in 8th position here (out of 12), and had problems executing my plan from…
Mock Draft
I just completed my first mock draft. I messed up a the running back picks Brian Westbrook and Michael Turner have the same bye week, i also waited too long to get running back 3/4 especially since I foolishly picked…
Fantasy Football Links
I’m now keeping a permanent list of links, so I can easily update my Fantasy Football Links. With fantasy football season around the bend I thought I’d post some of the sites I read. Mainly so I have a list…
Upgraded to WordPress 2.5
I just upgraded to WordPress 2.5. I don’t think i like the new admin theme, too much change. If you see something broken please let me know.
Re-aranging keys
Having fun with my new camera (Yes I used WebThumb to take the snapshot) <webthumb> <apikey>keyhere</apikey> <request> <url>http://flickr.com/photos/joshuaeichorn/sets/72157604167994594</url> <outputtype>png</outputtype> <width>1024</width><!– browser width –> <height>768</height><!– browser height –> <excerpt> <x>420</x> <y>180</y> <height>80</height> <width>350</width> </excerpt> </request> </webthumb>
Home Improvement
With Jen moving in, I’ve been doing a lot of home improvement projects lately. A couple weekends ago it was building a Dog Garden (Thanks Charles and Alex), then hanging a new door so the dogs could have a doggy…
Twitter Updates for 2008-03-13
Trying to figure out how to use twitter # Troy is an old man # Trying to fix my imap server # That you are # rebooting server cause i’ve leaked memory that i can’t seem to recover # I…
Giving into Web 2.0 or something like that
So i’ve finally given in and joined twitter and started mo-blogging with flickr. I’m also looking into Bemba, since it’s one of my WebThumb customers.
Server Move
I’ve been slowly moving all my websites to a new server. Today I moved email. If you try to email me today and I don’t answer there’s a chance thats way. It could also be because I didn’t want to…
New Server
This blog is running on a new server, you shouldn’t notice anything but faster performance but let me know if find any 404s
New Theme is Live
I’ve finally launched my new theme. Let me know what you think, I expect to make some more refinements and to clean up some content yet but the majority of the work is done. The big new featues are the…
New Look
I’ve slowly been working on a new theme for this site. I think i made some good progress tonight. Take a look and tell me what you think: http://new.joshuaeichorn.com/ Oh and thats not a link for a good reason, its…
When Blog Spammers Attack
You may have noticed that my blog has been running a bit slower these days. I’ve been getting huge load spikes a couple times a day. Looking at that and my Akismet counter, its seems im getting 3-4000 spam comment…
I voted today did you
I got up early to vote before work, the lines weren’t that bad but something got messed up in my registration process so I had to vote on a provisional ballot. For some reason they had me marked as having…
I’ll be at LinuxWorld
I’ll be at LinuxWorld on the 15 and the 16. On the 15th i’ll be demoing Clearhealth as part of Healthcare Day, and on the 16th I’ll be talking to people about my book. Let me know if your going…
I’m Married
Megan and I tied the knot on the 29th, and then spent a couple of days relaxing in sedona. We have a couple hundred pictures from the wedding and reception online. I ended up writing a simple picture viewer to…
Server Updates
Do to lots of problems with my old server i’ve moved to a new hosting company, and have been in the process of moving all the old content. Due to some issues beyond my control the move was forced on…