On another note, I am pleased to announce that my geoip database has over 4700 entries! I still don’t know what I’m going to use it for, but its still a neat thing to see.

I am also working on two programs and Quirx, which I will write about soon.

The default theme will still be Mystic, but now you’ll also have Simplistic Blue and Webby Blue to choose from.

I have still yet to find a nice, blue based theme, that’s WordPress3 compatible.

Night!

For those of you who don’t know, bokeh is a style of photography that focuses on the forground, while making light sources in the background appear blurry, or more precisely, appear as blurred rings or stars.

The wallpapers are 1920 by 1080 pixels, I may decide to do them in other sizes. For now, just center them.

I also had a whopping 449MB left on the massive 1.35 GB hard drive.

On this island there are 100 blue-eyed people, 100 brown-eyed people, and the Guru (she happens to have green eyes). So any given blue-eyed person can see 100 people with brown eyes and 99 people with blue eyes (and one with green), but that does not tell him his own eye color; as far as he knows the totals could be 101 brown and 99 blue. Or 100 brown, 99 blue, and he could have red eyes.

The Guru is allowed to speak once (let’s say at noon), on one day in all their endless years on the island. Standing before the islanders, she says the following:

“I can see someone who has blue eyes.”

Who leaves the island, and on what night?

There are no mirrors or reflecting surfaces, nothing dumb. It is not a trick question, and the answer is logical. It doesn’t depend on tricky wording or anyone lying or guessing, and it doesn’t involve people doing something silly like creating a sign language or doing genetics. The Guru is not making eye contact with anyone in particular; she’s simply saying “I count at least one blue-eyed person on this island who isn’t me.”

The answer is not “no one leaves.” Much care has been taken to make the wording as precise and unambiguous as possible. If you’re confused about anything, please let me know. A word of warning: The answer is not simple. This is an exercise in serious logic, not a lateral thinking riddle. There is not a quick-and-easy answer, and really understanding it takes some effort.

Wait, let me start over. So I text/chatted with them yesterday asking about the Windows 7 CD that came with my laptop. The computer shipped with 7 Home Premium on it, but they sent a Windows 7 Started Edition CD by mistake. So I want to reinstall the OS, but not via the recovery partition. I look at the CD and say “Oh dear, wrong CD”. So I chatted up tech support where a nice lady (Whom I had to explain the problem three times) said she would send me a copy of the Windows 7 Home Premium CD AS WELL AS a completely new hard drive with it preinstalled. I told her that the CD would suffice, but she was insistent that I took the hard drive as well. (Maybe I’m not smart enough to install it from a CD).

So anyway, the CD is being delivered, as well as a new 320 GB hard drive. This isn’t the first time Dell’s been so giving, by the way. Over the course of the four years I had my old desktop, they replaced the motherboard, CPU, and monitor for free. Its near impossible to get to tech support, but once you’re there, its all good.

Thanks Dell.

Since I posted last, I took a trip up to the states to deliver a new boat (Details on Facebook). The trip back to the Bahamas was both long and short. It only took 20 hours, but when you are on shift from 3AM to 12PM, it can mess with your head. Suffice it to say, I had a nice long sleep that day when I got back.

So, whats new on the interwebs…?

I made a few changes to www.ngclan.net (New homepage) and made some changes to this site (beta.tascrafts.com coming soon!)

My GeoIP database has over 2500 entries now! w00t! (Click)

Oh, I fiddled around and came up with a new site idea! It’s an image uploading and exchange site. Upload an image, and you get a random one back uploaded by someone else. I’m gonna put a few more features on it in the next few days. www.imgswp.com

This site got a mini-update as well. I updated my portfolio with new images, and unlocked it! I also updated the About section and updated some other stuff.

On a similar note, the QuickPlayer also got a bit of an update. I wrote a php script that dynamically generates the playlist based on the mp3 files in the music folder, so now there’s no having to open/edit/save/upload it every time I upload a song to it.

What else? Oh, I’m going to give Twitter another shot. I really dont see the point of having it unless you have a few hundred followers, I think FaceBooks better for status updates, but hey.

OH AND GET THIS. Remember the post I made ages back about Google ads not showing up on my computer? Guess what? I had modded my hosts file ages ago and put pagead2.googlesyndication.com as a test site to see if it worked, and forgot about it. I dont know what made me check there, but that’s where the problem was. Now I’m getting ads like I should. I guess thats a good thing.

Okay then, bed time. I’ve been having alot of late nights and longs days, so a good nights rest is in order. I say that as I see 1AM roll by :)

-tas

So a container truck drives down the street on Friday afternoon and clips a few phone lines coming off the pole. Mine being one of them. The phone company here doesn’t do weekends, and they close at 4. The truck hit the lines at 4:15 ish.

I call the maintenance department on Saturday because I know a guy there and he says they cant work without a work order from the main office. So I call them on Monday morning bright and early and say they will look into it. I call them that afternoon and they say “Oh, we cant get there today, we’ll be there sometime tomorrow”. Tomorrow being Tuesday. They finally repair the lines around lunchtime on Tuesday.

Then what? They decide to do maintenance on the whole system Tuesday afternoon and it goes down again.  :(

Then I was having problems with my modem|router|router setup today. AND NOW its working properly again.

End rant.