WordPress for iOS

An iPhone app for wordpress. Trying it out now. Seems pretty straight forward to set up and use. Loving the feature to upload pics from the phone cam directly.

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Book: Future Shock – Alvin Toeffler

Academics seem to love mentioning this book. Not to quote from it… Or discuss it. But just to mention it, in a context that seems to imply that they have read / studied it.

Why? Is the book really that profound?

I’ve owned a copy for 15 years. Could never really get into it.

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Is Back

Just like to remind myself, that WSOD happens when the WordPress Theme is corrupt, and there are extra lines in the wp-config.php file.

Reset to default themes. Then edit wp-config.php and add ‘?>’ to the VERY end of the file. NO <CR> after that last line either!

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Insane Squirrel looking for new home

My subscription to this webhost is coming to an end in a few days.

I’m planning to move the website to another webhost, somewhere faster and which gives me full shell access to install anything I want. Definitely with PHP5+, so that I can upgrade that plugin that I use to put in Amazon links.

Building that new host might take a couple of days, and there’s distracting shit happening too. So there might be some downtime.

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Windows FLP and Serial to USB adapters

One word: serenum.sys

FLP is Fundamentals for Legacy PC. This is a very trim installation of Windows XP, meant for Embedded systems like thin client PCs.

It’s so trim, that the OS does not expect the hardware to have serial / parallel ports, so that one tiny vital file is missing from C:\Windows\System32\Drivers.

And without that file, plugging a USB Serial Port will fail, and driver installation results in:

“An error ocurred during the installation of the device”
“A service Installation section in this INF is invalid”

To troubleshoot this problem, look for setupapi.log

This log told me that there’s an error with my serenum.sys file, which was absent.

Invested hours looking into this, cos the only notebook I have with me is my EeePC 4G. And I needed a laptop with Windows to install OBD2 diagnostics software. My OBD2 cable just came in the mail, and I’m trying to hook up my truck to the laptop to look at geeky stuff like engine error codes and timing settings and what nots.

I found and installed Windows FLP onto the EeePC. That was an adventure as well, for another post. If I’m able to find the time….

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