1337 requests handled

Looking through the logs and daily stats:

"Daily average: 410.441860465116 pages sent. 1337.39534883721 requests handled. 424.078 TB bytes served."

Just yesterday I had 1337 e-mail spam messages.

USB powered aromatherapy diffuser

Most of my friends know I practice a bit in aromatherapy. All of you know I like gadgets and other such stuff.

This USB powered diffuser sparked my interest as soon as I read the title. I will be ordering this in a few days. I can't wait!

• Powered by USB with 4cm diameter stainless steel hot tray.
• Fire free design with see through safety cover.
• Can be used with fragrance oil or scented candle.
• Easy access On/Off button.
• LED lit-up indicator.
• USB cable of 1.5 meter.
• Size : 98 x 98 x 41.5 mm
• Wieght : 86gm
  

gallery to gallery

I migrated from Gallery 1 to Gallery 2. The initial setup of the application was pleasantly painless. The installation wizard is one of the best I have used.

However, the migration of data was not much fun. First of all, godaddy doesn't seem to like a script running for more than a couple of minutes. I tried changing a php variable inside .htaccess, but that was a no-go and made my content inaccesible. The reason I needed the script to run longer, is the integration of some 2000 pictures from Gallery 1.

After several attempts at importing them at once, I set out to seperate the pictures in batches of 300 in seperate directories. I then imported the pictures with the local directory feature, one directory at a time.

This had worked for the most part, but I started getting a lot of file locking errors, to many files open, and the likes. I switched over to SQL indexed file locks, and the problem went away.

After several attempts at getting everything fine and dandy, my last successful attempt I declined from making the mod_rewrite declerations. I am not about to do this over, and create them. Sorry if the absolute links are no longer absolute.

In any case, I have a pretty stable picture gallery that will be able to support the amount of pictures and video clips I plan on throwing at it.

while looking through an archive of photos

the real meow mix

I discovered the secret to Meow Mix's singing cats. They are not just happy to eat, and I think this is why:

This cat piano was invented by a German scholar over 350 years ago. He carefuly selected cats based on the tone of their screetch, then positioned them in the appropriate cage. When playing a particular key, the cat's tail would be poked with a pin, thus letting out the cat's meow.

The original idea was to lighten the stress of an Italian prince. Quite funny indeed, sick, but funny yes. [gizmodo]