Peter’s Thoughts

Well the new Del.icio.us website debuted today (31/07/2008) and I like it. However, there is one thing that I noticed that was missing is unbundled tags - a number of other users have noticed (see here and here). Granted the improvements to Del.icio.us have been coming for a long time now, and its just a matter of getting used to the design of the site. And I really don’t like the fact that I would need to look for stuff that I knew before the update and would spend a little while longer on the site to find things.

Though spending time on a website isn’t really a big deal for me, I just don’t like the fact of doing a “treasure hunt” for items that I could easily find on the old site. Just need to get used to the new site … in time.

But in the end if updating the back end/front end of a site to make things faster, run much more smoothly and the design of the site doesn’t bother the end user to or that much … so much for the better.

Just my 2 cents….

Peter

Note: this post may be edited at some point but don’t know at this time. I intended this to be posted last night but wanted to revise this post some more before posting this before the public.

This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing.

Just an FYI to those who follow this blog and or who visit my site every so often. I’m in the process of adding Google AdSense to this site to basically try to help with the cost of hosting this site and my pet site. The thing that was preventing me from doing this a couple of years ago - was that I needed a mailbox at my home which I didn’t have ’til last week. Though I did have a mailbox at my home a couple of years back though it got ruined over the winter and I never really got around to get it replaced - ’til this summer.

Though its going to take some time to actually update the whole site with the code.

As for an earlier post about the troubles that I’ve been having with the MySQL Server with my hosting provider as far as I know its been “fixed” but I won’t hold my breath. Seems like that there is some kind of problems with the MySQL server every so often that happens at my hosting company. Don’t know why the server’s “act up” like this but I think its bad for business and frankly they (the hosting provider) should update to the current release build of MySQL and php though after doing some testing before doing a system wide update/upgrade of the server software. But that’s just my 2 cents.

Anyways, getting back on topic, I’m going to see how the ads will do on my site between now and the end of the year. Depending on how this endeavor goes - will move my plans up on moving to a new hosting provider and move to a new domain register - otherwise, hopefully, I’ll do the move of this site later this year.

bye for now…

Peter

P.S. This post may be updated at some point but don’t know when or if this post would be updated or not.

Just FYI to those who follow this blog in readers, etc., I’ve been having intermittent problems with the hosting company that I’m currently with. I don’t know how long these problems would continue and I’ve already sent an email to tech/customer service for help with the problem that I’m having with the MySQL server

Updates will follow soon.

Peter

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I’ve recently came across Diigo by the way of a post over at Borderland. It seems an interesting site, enough to try it, even though I really don’t like the clutter of the site. Another problem that I have a problem with is with the after effects of the import of my del.icio.us bookmarks, though I was expecting a few tags and links to get lost during the import into Diigo.

One feature that I like about Diigo is that I could actually have links posted to my blogs, as with del.icio.us, nothing gets posted to any of my blogs - no matter how I try to get things work. I guess I could live with that for a while longer.

Though, I’m going to see how Diigo works out during the mean time. Del.icio.us is still my default online bookmarking site.

Here is my Diigo page and here is my del.icio.us page. Though my del.icio.us account is more current than what I have at Diigo.

Peter

The Moon with Stars, originally uploaded by p_smith.

Just a picture of the moon that I took one night.

P4010012.jpg, originally uploaded by p_smith.

Here is a picture of my dog outside of my family home in Alaska. Which is looking towards the trees next to our family’s land.

Today I’ve done some spring cleaning around place that has been some time coming, though it took me forever to get around to do it. I’m glad that I’ve got most of it done but still have some ways to go. The kicker thing is that we’ve, myself and the rest of my family, have doing a spring cleaning over the course of the last year.

The spring cleaning that my family has been doing over the last year has an off again then on again type of thing. There’s still some residual things to do around the house in regards to get it more cleaned up.

Now its just a matter of getting what we have left into a storage unit of some kind, so we would, at least, have a little bit more room in our home.

Sometimes leading up to actually doing the cleaning of a room or part of a room sometimes can be the hard part me. I don’t know why that it is, but it is. Though I’m glad the majority of the cleaning is about done and over with. Its just a matter of keeping things neat around the house.

Note: This is a post that I complaining about the change over of daylight savings time. In other words I’m just ranting on in a useless post. Otherwise don’t complain, if any complaints they’ll be deleted - fair warning.

I don’t know why but daylight saving time this year has screwed me up to some degree. I wasn’t fully prepared for the switch over cause I’m so used to the switch over in April, and plus for the last day or 2 my sleeping has also gotten messed up by losing an hour. I can understand the logic of having daylight savings time starting a month sooner.

But alas I wasn’t or I didn’t get myself prepared for the change over and the lost of sleeping time. But hopefully I would be prepared this fall and next spring for the earlier and later change over.