I am so used to Gmail working all the time for me that I was shocked when I woke up from a little nap and decided to check my Gmail and I got the message:
“We’re sorry, but your Gmail account is temporarily unavailable. We apologize for the inconvenience and suggest trying again in a few minutes.”
Oh NO Temporary Error 500 and numeric code 21.
Others are having the problem. I am sure they will have it fixed soon.
“Washington (CNN) -- A Delta Air Lines passenger who admitted using an electronic device last month to videotape a bird strike minutes after takeoff has been warned by the Federal Aviation Administration to follow the rules or face a penalty the next time.
The plane bound for Los Angeles made an emergency landing at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York on April 19 after encountering an engine problem the pilot said was caused by a bird strike, an incident caught on camera by Grant Cardone.
The FAA investigated and sent Cardone a letter after the story received widespread media attention. The video shows a flock of birds hitting the right engine, causing it to shut down.
"We have given consideration to all of the facts. In lieu of legal enforcement action (a civil penalty), we are issuing this letter which will be made a matter of record for a period of two years, after which, the record will be expunged," James Giles, FAA supervisory principal operations inspector, wrote in a letter to Cardone.
The FAA requires that portable electronic devices be turned off during critical phases of flight. Officials say the rule is meant to prevent interference with the aircraft's navigation and communication systems…”
I guess I am fucking old and not up on new tech stuff. When I read the headline of the CNN story I was thinking the person to the photo with a camera.
I guess the person took the photo with an iPhone. I know phones and computers are to be turned off.
It is very rare for me to fly. I do own a cell phone but I never use it.
I would think that with an iPhone you could turn off the telephone part and still have access to the camera and the data on the phone. I guess I am wrong.
You know if there is danger from cell phones and computer being used inside the aircraft then I do not think the phones and computers should not be turned off… I think the planes should be grounded until they can fly in a safe manner in this day and age.
If an aircraft is in danger from an iPhone then ground all aircraft and do it right now.
I but within minutes that the FAA would decide that cell phone and computers are no danger to an aircraft.
Now do I want to be on a flight with everyone using cell phones? Hell no. I do not even want to be on a flight with one person using a cell phone.
I just found Imgur a week or so ago and it looks excellent. I have not had time to check it out but I did post 8 photos on it.
Well this week I get Google Drive. It looks great.
Anyone out there want to write a review or do a post on Imgur vs Google Drive?
I am not up to it yet. You know what a busy life I lead? Smile
It looks to me like Imgur is very easy to add photos to and get the url for the links and share them.
It looks like Google Drive will do those things but also lets you do a LOT more. It lets you save all sorts of files and you can access them from other computers.
If anyone wants to post a review of either Imgur or Google Drive please write something and email it to me. It can be a post about the merits of each if you wish.
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“Though he hasn't been formally charged, the neighborhood watchman who shot and killed Trayvon Martin is setting up a fundraising campaign to cover his legal fees, NBC News reports.
George Zimmerman said he was acting in self defense when he fatally shot an unarmed 17-year-old who was walking home from a candy store in Sanford, Fla., in February. Zimmerman is protected under the Stand Your Ground Law, but federal officials are currently investigating the case, which has sparked national outrage.
Zimmerman left his job at a mortgage risk management firm after the shooting, according to the Grio and is hoping to drum up financial support to pay for his lawyers and living expenses through his soon-to-launch fundraising site,www.zimmermandefense.com…” Huffington Post
I checked the above URL and the site was not up. Not sure if someone has hacked it or what has taken place.
Right now it takes you to the URL parked at GoDaddy.
I saw reports online of people going to the site and viewing the site.
I do not blame George Zimmerman for setting up a site. He can not go to school. He can not work at his job. He has had to move and go into hiding.
He also says the other people have set up links to collect money for his legal help but he has not seen any money from them.
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CNN has a post “Why Pinterest is 2012’s hottest website.” How can that be? I am Jim Howard and I got my first computer in 1978. I been online 24/7 since 1982. I been doing a blog since 1982.
I never heard of Pinterest.
“Pinterest is a vision board-styled social photo sharing website and app where users can create and manage theme-based image collections. The site's mission statement is to "connect everyone in the world through the 'things' they find interesting". Pinterest is managed by a team based in Palo Alto, California…”
They launched in March 2012. They never contacted me. I think they should have asked my permission.
“Design
Users label and create theme-based image boards. Users can populate their own boards with media found online using the Pin It button.[2]
Pins show up on the homepage through a Pin Feed that takes into account timing of pin, re-pinning activity, 'like' activity, and comment activity as well as your personal interests based on the board/pinners you follow.
Pins may be divided into pictures, videos, discussions, and gifts. A pin is an image added to Pinterest. Gifts are subdivided into: $1–20, $20–50, $50–100, $100–200, $200–500, $500+. [3]
Pictures consist of subcategories of: architecture, art, cars & motorcycles, design, DIY & crafts, education, film, music & books, fitness, food & drink, gardening, geek, hair & beauty, history, home décor, humor, kids, my life, women’s apparel, men’s apparel, outdoors, people, pets, photography, print & posters, products, science & nature, sports, technology, travel & places, wedding & events, other, everything…”
I checked out MegaUpload a year or two ago for some reason. I think I had a large file that I wanted to send to someone and it would not fit via eMail. So I used MegaUpload. So I looked around their sites.
I saw that you could download movies. Some of the movies were just out in the theaters right then. But everything I saw about how the site operated sent warnings to me. They had the feel of not being honest and being a hacker site. I felt that you could not use their site for long without getting a virus or something worst on your computer. I never went back to them. I forgot about them.
Well they got taken off line and all of their sites were taken off line.
“Megaupload is an online Hong Kong–based company established in 2005 that ran a one-click hosting online service of the same name, along with its sister services. The site was shut down by the U.S. Justice Department on January 19, 2012 during an investigation into alleged copyright infringement,[3][2][4][5] leading to what activist group Anonymous calls "the single largest Internet attack in its history"…”
Well yesterday Russ came into my room and was upset and mad. I said what is wrong and he said they shut down MegaUpload. I did not know he knew about the site or used them.
Here is Boogie2988 from YouTube and what he has to say about the MegaUpload shut down.
I think MegaUpload needed to be taken down. I know Russ will not agree with me and I know that many of you will not agree with me. I could tell from a very little bit of time looking at MegaUpload that they were dirty. In fact after I looked at their site I made a special point to do a complete virus scan. I never make a special effort to run it I let it do it in the background. But after looking at that site I ran it special.
I like the new YouTube. You will notice a change to my channel. You can also have your own home page if you sign into YouTube.
I like the new look. I see comments from a LOT of people that they do not like the change.
What do you think? Do you like the new YouTube design?
I have been a big fan of Google Chrome for years. I have used Chrome under Windows and Linux.
But for a long time now it has been giving me problems. It is a problem with Adobe Flash. Lots of other people been having the same problem and Chrome does not seem able to fix the problem.
I am sick and tired and fed up with the problem.
So today I am going to go back and start using Firefox. I am going to miss Chrome.
I have over 200 videos on YouTube and many of them are in 780p format. Soon you can see me in living color, with stereo sound, and in full HD 1080p video.
I have ordered the Logitech 1080p Webcam Pro C910 camera.
I am using a Logitech Pro 9000 right now. It is an excellent webcam. I did a YouTube review of the Microsoft LifeCam Studio 1080p HD webcam. I do not recommend it.
When I get the C910 I will do a review of it.
Yes I am going to rant again.. rant warning on…
No I am not going to say that I invented the Internet, the world wide web or even the blog. But the stories like “Not So High-Tech Anymore: The First Website Ever Celebrates Its 20th Birthday” piss me off.
“On August 6, 1991, the first website was launched on the Internet, forever changing the way we browse. (And thankfully, web design has improved just a bit in the past two decades.)…”
So in 1991 you could type in a url and go to a site. Well Howard’s Notebook began in 1982. It was written up in a national magazine (“Link-Up”), in 1984, and I am not sure of the date but about 1984 you could click on a link at Howard’s Notebook and HNB would dial out on my second phone line and connect you with another bulletin board system. If I remember correct you could not type in the link you had to hit the link that I had in the text. Now for sending an Internet email you could on my system type in the email address but I had a number of email addressed written out that you could just click on because people did not know how to write email addresses at that time. I had to explain to people how to address an Internet email.
So I am not knocking Tim Berners-Lee or whatever site he had or whatever in the hell he was doing but there were a lot of people doing a lot of things back in the old days.
So he did something online in 1991 and good for him. Many of us were doing things back in the early 1980s.
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