It has been brought to my attention that the mobile version of the site is displaying php code, I am looking into resolving this issue, as a temp fix, you can just view the standard mobile version of the site from the link at the bottom of any page. My day today is a bit full, so I probably will not get around to fixing the formating issues today (as mentioned below, it’s going to take a while, I have to go in to each page and hand write all of the HTML code for every page and post on the site).
I updated the header to get rid of the silly “Home” link, which just takes you here, thereby being a duplicate link, and causing all the pages to not appear in the list. Everything is there now; however I did have to change “Bits of Random Knowledge” to “Random Knowledge” and “Life Happenings” to “Life Happens” in order to get it all to fit. I am ok with the first change, not happy about the second, I’ll probably try to put that back here in a second and then I’ll cross this part out. 
This does not affect links at all. The pages are all still stored in the same place and with the same file names as they used to be. OK, adding the “ing” back didn’t disrupt the spacing, so now I am happy. Of course nothing ever does what it is supposed to, I have now lost my spacing between posts on this page… In fact after checking the html code, I have lost all formatting codes on my page, granted I have not learned any new html since 1996-1998 era, but it should still work! right, now not even the buttons on the posting toolbar stay when I save (ie strikeout/bold/italics). This should not be! it was working before, I have not changed and WordPress settings, why would it just stop working? I may just have to manually edit the page on the server and just not edit it in WP anymore, which is stupid. Apparently changing from WYSIWYG mode (“What You See Is What You Get” for those younger people reading here), which is called “Visual” in WP, to HTML mode (you better know that one…) or vice-versa automatically deletes any HTML code you might have on your ENTIRE page/post. This is apparently also considered a feature by some idiots over at WordPress.org. (Hello stupid, boy I hope you read this too, they even include a button on the tool bar labeled “remove formatting” which I will take for granted that it does the same thing (not clicking that one, no way jose!). Ok, this time I swear I did not go to HTML mode, and I STILL lost all formatting after updating the page! but at least the HTML links stuck around!?!? I have found several posts on the WP forums about this issue, but none have valid solutions for my problem, most date 3-5 years ago, some are newer.
not too much content this time (unless I get carried away again). couple of neat articles I read today (not the most trusted sources for news, but you have to make your own decisions… (both the things I started this post to talk about came from blogs.zdnet.com ) (another note, all links on my site “SHOULD” open in new windows, for some reason they never implemented “open link in a new tab” feature to HTML, or I just haven’t found it yet)
VirtualBox 3.1 - has been released with it’s new “big” feature… “teleport”. some people might recognize this as being extremely similar to IBM’s Power System’s Live Partition Mobility. in a nutshell this means:
Partition mobility provides the ability to move a logical partition from one system to another. Live (or active) partition mobility allows you to move a running logical partition, including its operating system and applications, from one system to another. The applications do not need to be shut down. Inactive partition mobility allows you to move a powered off (or deactivated) logical partition from one system to another.
Live Partition Mobility
Live partition mobility allows you to migrate running AIX and Linux partitions and their hosted applications from one physical server to another without disrupting the infrastructured services. The migration operation, which takes just a few seconds, maintains complete transactional integrity. The migration transfers the entire system environment, including processor state, memory, attached virtual devices, and connected users.
(actually quoted from the IBM training manual for IBM course AU78 “System p LPAR and Virtualization II: Implementing Advanced Configurations” a training class I took in July of this year) and so it goes on… (I guess I just killed the “no long post” part at the beginning…) This has to be the coolest thing I have ever seen/witnessed/done in my life. I setup an LPAR (logical partition) on a System p server, installed AIX 6.1 on it, then while another person in the training class was logged in and doing something in the server, I migrated it to another physical machine in less than 15 minutes with less than 5 seconds of down time (monitored with a CPU and HDD activity monitors running on the virtual server and a custom script that basically played the worm game and changed colors when the host system changed so we knew when it had actually made the switch)
Words cannot describe watching a multi-gigabyte installation of a server migrate to another physical box and keep working with less than 5 seconds of down time over the course of 12-15 minutes. I am guilty of not having checked the total used size of the data drive, so I do not know how large the transfer was). now to have this option in a freeware app that I can run on my Quad-core at home is very cool. Especially since VirtualBox is currently my VM-app of choice. Don’t get me wrong, I do/have used Virtual PC from Microsoft quite a good bit, but the configuration options and multiple VHD file format compatibility make VirtualBox the winner in that contest hands down. Also, I have nothing against VMWare personally; however it is intensely confusing to go from Virtual PC to a VMWare workstation application and figure out what is going on and how to set it up without going back to “what already works… and is simple to use.” Press release for VirtualBox 3.1
ok, after over 550 words, lets move on to the second half of my post (definitely not going to be a quick post… but then I always have a lot to say about stuff…)
OS and Web Browser share reports… Windows XP and Vista and MAC OS X are down, Win7 and Linux are up. Firefox and IE8 usage are up, IE6 and IE7 are down, and everybody else, well no comment was made… original article is here on ZDNet - FYI how/where this info came from is sited on the ZDNet page.
right few comments about the above, first interesting how Firefox #’s are combined for all versions, does that mean Mozilla does a better job getting people to upgrade? or that Firefox users are less likely to fall very far behind on versions? same thing goes for the Safari #’s. yes Safari and Chrome are mentioned in the #’s, but no comments were made as to their rise or fall.
(completely unrelated, but I am listening to Pandora right now on my Sprint HTC Touch and they just played “Coloured Rain” by Slade, whom I have never heard before, at least not knowingly. They are a British Rock band from the 70′s and I could have sworn it was The Beatles when it started playing…) (a note on that note, I Bing’d “wikipedia the beatles” and on the first page I got the Wikipedia page on the Beatles in the following languages, but not English… in order: sco, simple, nl, fr, ro, it. I know what all of those are, except ro (Russian? it doesn’t look Russian)… there were other results, including 2 Beatles albums’ pages on Wikipedia in English…)
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