Over the past couple of days I’ve been trying to figure out why my site’s been running slow. I thought it might have to do with Dreamhost since they’ve been going through recent problems. After adding Firebug on FireFox I found out the stall was happening with the Revver plugin I had installed and activated. As soon as I deactivated it my backend was back to normal, and within a couple minutes my site was also back up to speed.
I realized after doing this that I had tried to visit Revver earlier and it had failed to open. My question now is: Did Revver finally just fall off the face of the internet for good? I hope not, because I liked the set-up they had. Plus, they owe me a measly $20 that’d I’d like to buy a cover for my iPhone with. I’m sure that other video publishers that use Revver are hurting and more nervous than I am.
A comment on NewTeeVee’s post “Revver Site Having Problems” by AaronCook stated: “Revver owes me over $200 dollars for my videos. Will I ever see that money? Hmm, I kinda doubt it at this point. But the fault really lies on the shoulders of LiveUniverse. They’re apparently not releasing the money (if they even have it) and the Revver employees and forum moderators are left with their hands tied, trying their best to keep the video creators calm – some of whom are owed more than $2,500.”
TechCrunch posted about the outage and had an update claiming that what Revver users are experiencing is a “major migration from a CDN/provider to a tier 1 & top technology provider.”
Here is my message to you, Revver: I’m glad I deactivated you because you were causing many problems for me, but will you actually be back up at some point? I’m hoping yes, and that you’ll be back stronger. I hope you start forking out some money to us publishers out here, and next time you decide to go offline won’t you warn your users like you normally do? You do have great potential.
Erm, we’ll see what happens. =]
I found an article on CNN.com by Dr. Sanjay Gupta titled “The Secret to Living to 100“, leading me to take the quiz on Livingto100.com.
“The Living to 100 Life Expectancy Calculator uses the most current and carefully researched medical and scientific data in order to estimate how old you will live to be. Most people score in their late eighties… how about you?”
After answering 40 short questions related to my health and family history, I was told that my calculated life expectancy is 94 years. =]
The reason I like this site so much is after the quiz you get personalized feedback and a list of things you can do differently to add years on to your life.
This morning free AT&T WiFi for iPhone users is confirmed by this free text message from AT&T saying:
Exciting! The AT&T website claims that “they know what’s hot”. Apparently they do! iPhone users can receive Wi-Fi from places like airports, hotels, universities, convention centers, sports centers, Starbucks locations that are equipped with a hotspot, restaurants, bookstores, and even SUPERMARKETS!
Users can access the Wi-Fi by:
Note: That particular link is only valid for 24 hours. Find out more at www.att.com/attwifi.
Today I noticed that on some of my blogs there was now a “Possibly Related” link section at the end of my blogs and I checked the HTML seeing if some how I had accidently added this to those blogs. Nope, it was a WordPress announcement that I hadn’t noticed yet, called “Possibly an Announcement“. I’m hoping this will work out well. Seeing the fact that I’m afraid it’s going to make my blogs looked cluttered and not actually have relitive links I’m not possitive that I will be keeping this new feature or not.
From the announcement:
In a feature we’re calling possibly related posts we’ll now try to show posts related to yours a little section at the end. If we find any posts on your blog that are related, we’ll put those at the very top and in bold. Next we’ll show other posts from around WordPress.com, and finally we’ll check if there’s anything in the mainstream media.The result is a handful of links that should provide you and your visitors something interesting to check out. On blogs that cover the same topics frequently related posts could cause a 5-10% increase in traffic overnight. You could also start to see traffic from lots of other blogs. It’s a bit of an experiment, and we’ll be tweaking it a lot based on your feedback and the data that we collect once everything is live.
Right now this is just for English blogs, but we’re working on the technology to roll this out for every language we support. We’ll also be adding some ways for you to tweak the results to your liking.
‘Ello! I’ve finally added a Facebook page! You can find it here: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Cathryn/9775626951
Q: Why I have chosen a Facebook page instead of giving out my personal Facebook?
A: I’ve struggled with this for sometime now. The conclusion of a page instead of giving out my actual Facebook is because I saw what happend when my friends went huge on Myspace. I received messages and spam from the “friends” that I had, which becomes extremly annoying. I love communicating with people and hearing what they have to say about many different topics, but sometimes I just would like to keep up with close personal friends. I feel like giving out my Facebook would invade my privacy and cause unwanted spamming. I hope everyone enjoys my facebook page!
Stay in touch!
I’ve been doing school work like crazy over the past couple of weeks and I’ve been getting stuck a little bit but nothing major enough to need help with until today. I was stuck on a biology question that had to do with finding out what Substance A and B was and answer questions about each of the substances. Of course that sounds easy, but the problem was I hadn’t covered the material and I had no clue where to begin. So, I noticed on Keystone’s website they mentioned Tutor.com. Why not try it, I got trial for a free 25 minutes?
Seriously it was a godsend. Of course I would have just rather have had the answers thrown at me so I wouldn’t have to think, but that’s not the point of school and learning. The tutor that I was connected with helped me learn the material and understand it. I had a chart explaining what was in Substance A and B, and through there “whiteboard” I was able to draw it out so the tutor and I could discuss it. The tutor could also write on the whiteboard to explain to me different things that needed to be done in pictures. Now I understand the concept completely behind what Substance A and B were.
I highly recommend this service to students (grades 4-12) that need help with understanding material. They offer tutoring in the 4 core subjects of Math, English, Science, and Social Studies. The tutors can help you if you have no where to start, or have started but are stuck on a certain part, or they will check your answers behind you. The service is available 24/7 which I find highly appealing since I take online classes and I’m able to do my school work when ever fits into my schedule, and this means that I can get stuck at anytime. A big advantage to in person tutors, because you have a set time to meet with them.
Below is a link to Tutor.com, and by clicking below you can get 25 minutes for free.
Finding a webhost, another dilemma that’s giving me a huge headache.
For the past 3 weeks I’ve been searching and searching for a webhost. I’ve done google search after msn search over and over again, and I haven’t found what I’m looking for. I’ve signed up for Lunarpages.com and Easy-To-Build.com, and neither one satisfy my needs. The review sites tend to be just affiliate websites trying to make money. Ah! I need some real human input. Someone who knows what they’re talking about and what’s the best of the best cause I can’t find it.
I’ve been with Homestead.com since I was in 6th grade. They offer an amazing sitebuilder and other great features, but I’m trying to expand my site (if only they supported wordpress and forums). The features that I need a webhost to have is being able to support wordpress, forums and have an awesome WYSIWYG builder. Along with the standard email address’, lots of space, outstanding up-time, good help support, etc. Does anyone have any suggestions? I’m about to jump out of a window soon going through all these webhosting websites trying to find the right one, and only signing up for them and finding out that it’s not what I’m looking for.
Edit: I ran into Homestead’s blog, which stated that they’re going through beta testing of PHP capabilities. I hope they release this soon. Maybe, just maybe I can stay with them. I’d still like to hear what everyone has to say.
I haven’t been posting lately because I’ve been trying to get everything in order. =] The bad must come with the good. I will be posting soon about what I’ve been trying to get in order, definatly too long to post right now see that it’s 4:30 in the morning and I need to get some sleep.
Tonight I did find the time to do some expanding on the internet. I’ve signed up on virb and twitter. The reason I signed up for twitter is so when these instances come up and I can’t blog as much as possible you can still find me and see what I’m doing. Along with being able to keep my friends up to date on what’s going on. I’m not completely sure of it yet, but I’ll let you know what I decided. Andddd, the reason that I’ve signed up on virb is I like there set up and I wanted to see exactly what it’s all about. Just another myspace? Maybe, maybe not.. I shall find out.
Goodnight!
Cathryn Gray is a new media chic with many passions and interests, including photography, modeling, blogging, social media, design, gadgets
(especially those Apple ones), traveling and more.
