Is this not incredibly cool?

http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.seebq.com

If you like taking a trip down memory lane, give that a whirl. Be sure to check out their archives of Amazon.com cerca 1996, and Yahoo! December 20, 1996.

Congratulations Brandi and Capp! (picture courtesy Sprint Pocket PC 6600)

I haven’t bought it yet, but isn’t it pretty?

Nokia unveils Linux-based web device without phone

The other day, I thoroughly cleansed my mt_comments table. Let me thank the comment-spammers for the 50000+ posts…. Then, I noticed some funny error messages upon trying to post an entry the next day. I would get this error at the top of any page using pear’s DB.php class:

SQL/DB: Error ... something ... mt_comment.MYD (Errno: 145)

Some quick google searches revealed it could be a corrupt table. I found something in the mysql reference manual, entitled: How to Repair Tables.

I performed a quick check on the file in question:

[root@ns root]# myisamchk /var/lib/mysql/mtseebq/mt_comment.MYI
Checking MyISAM file: /var/lib/mysql/mtseebq/mt_comment.MYI
Data records:    3015   Deleted blocks:   21793
myisamchk: warning: Table is marked as crashed
myisamchk: warning: 2 clients is using or hasn't closed the table properly
- check file-size
- check key delete-chain
- check record delete-chain
- check index reference
- check data record references index: 1
myisamchk: error: Found 3014 keys of 3015
- check record links
myisamchk: error: Keypointers and record positions doesn't match
MyISAM-table '/var/lib/mysql/mtseebq/mt_comment.MYI' is corrupted
Fix it using switch "-r" or "-o"

Bingo! So, I decided to opt for a repair (could have used the -q option) and I skipped a step where I made a backup of the .MYD and .MYI files.

[root@ns root]# myisamchk -r /var/lib/mysql/mtseebq/mt_comment.MYI
- recovering (with sort) MyISAM-table '/var/lib/mysql/mtseebq/mt_comment.MYI'
Data records: 3015
- Fixing index 1
- Fixing index 2
- Fixing index 3
- Fixing index 4
[root@ns root]#

Done. Then, I almost forgot to:

[root@ns root]# /etc/init.d/mysqld start
Starting MySQL:                                            [  OK  ]

Working again for now. But I need a new server! Who wants in with me?

This Business Week On-Line article, Blogs Will Change Your Business does an excellent job summing up the hype surrounding blogging, and does quite a good job at a little blogging 101.

I happen to agree that businesses/individuals ought to jump on the bandwagon, if only to contribute to the new medium. There are some really great benefits to putting a blog “out there.” Just to give an example, take for instance, a real estate agent.

Said Real Estate Agent puts out a blog that is, at first, simply a copy-paste of a newsletter update sent to friends/family/clients (not some auto-generated one, but with personal stuff too), and does a little bit of linking. Perhaps talks about general blog type stuff, like, “went to Fox Theater this weekend…. did Habitat for Humanity…. Showed my favorite listing to some friends….” Of course, linking the listing to an MLA listing, and others.

This accomplishes several things. The Agent is now establishing in-bound link relevancy to search engines. Since the agent claims to know such and such neighborhoods, and have such and such listings, and be the expert, it clearly indicates this by creating these links. They now, also have a newsletter that is “free” to send, and posted “live” on the Internet. Friends and family (and maybe prospective or future clients) can visit and find out what’s happening with their favorite real estate agent. Boom!

OK, I got it: seebq.com Blogging Consultants, Inc. I figure this idea is worth about 500k in VC money. Who’s in?

Let’s just pretend that this entry in my blog is actually several different entries that I’ve been meaning to write. I’m just going to summarize what these non-posted entries would have been (and since I started work on some, but never actually posted them), maybe they’ll just show up one day.

Non-Post 1) More griping and some random-ness about XML. This post was going to show how to do some XSL transformations to make an XML doc do all sorts of nifty stuff. It was going to be well written and link to several different sites where I found out how to do whatever it was I was trying to do. (This entry would have served to show how techno-savvy and cool I was, and boost my own ego, while adding more clutter to the Interweb about XML/XSL).

Non-Post 2) Talking about how I went crazy and ran all kinds of wires through our condo while our bathroom renovation had much of the walls and ceiling removed. I ran tons of CAT6 (high-speed network cable) and lots of UL-Approved 4-gauge Speaker wire - in order to complete my insanely cool, whole-house-audio/video linux-based mythtv and iTunes system using volume controls, auto-switching local amplifiers, in-ceiling and in-wall speakers, and a projector on the wall. (once again would have provided some links and more boosting to the old ego — don’t worry I’ll be posting more about this system soon).

Non-Post 3) All about my new Linux Laptop. I just acquired an ….
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