Sometime during the past year or so, the humble Adobe Acrobat Reader (or Adobe Reader, or whatever it’s branded as these days) turned into a gigantic piece of bloatware that takes 20 seconds to fire up any time you want to view a simple PDF online. Here’s how to speed it up. I wish I looked for this solution sooner… I had thought it was just something to do with the way it plugged into Firefox. I guess I should have known Reader was getting bloated when I saw an ad for the utterly unrelated Yahoo Toolbar built into the user interface. I guess Acrobat is going the way of RealPlayer these days. We all know that worked out so well for Real.
Filed under General Computing
I finally got around to playing with Amazon Web Services, and now I wish I did much sooner. Fearing that it would require a ton of complex SOAP or Java code, I was reluctant to get started. Now I’ve learned that all you really need is a language with the ability to read the contents of a URL (PHP can handle that) and a bit of XSLT knowledge (I’ve got some of that…)
So, I’ve started in a new venture I had been pondering for a while. It’s called “MyBigRiver”. I don’t want to say much more about it now, except that it’ll mainly be of interest to those with blogs or other personal web sites. Hopefully, it will only take a few weeks to set up.
Here’s the general business plan:
1. Learn Amazon Web Services
2. Register MyBigRiver.com domain name
3. ???
4. Profit!
Filed under Projects, Web Development
Once again, some pathetic coward is posting anonymous nasty messages on my site, for some reason. I never knew I had people wishing me dead but I guess that, in the grand scheme of things, if I’m inspiring such hateful jealousy, I must be doing SOMETHING right.
I had thought whoever this person is had gotten on with their life by now, so I turned off the comment moderation a while back. Unfortunately, their life seems to be far sadder than I thought.
Comments on this site are still unmoderated, but now they must be confirmed by the poster, via email, so you must use a valid email address when posting (email addresses will never be shown online, so don’t worry about spambots, etc.)
And if you happen to be this worthless little creep, and you set up a temporary email address just to circumvent this system, don’t think I’ll be blown away with how clever you are. Rather I’ll just be sitting back and laughing at how incredibly meaningless and pathetic your life is that you feel the need to go through all that effort to be so cowardly.
Filed under This Site
Update: Get the Halloween Pictures at Flickr. They fixed their upload bug. Yay!
Pics from Halloween!
I normally use Flickr for my photos, which enables you to do really cool things… But, they’re being really difficult about getting things uploaded right now, so, anyway, they’re just on my site for now. I’ll get them on Flickr eventually, which will enable you to get full-resolution pics. Keep checking back there!
Filed under Personal Notes
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