JerryKnight.com » Website http://jerryknight.com/wp This Internet thing is just a fad. Wed, 08 Jul 2009 18:04:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Post of the year (maybe) http://jerryknight.com/wp/2009/07/08/post-of-the-year-maybe/ http://jerryknight.com/wp/2009/07/08/post-of-the-year-maybe/#comments Wed, 08 Jul 2009 17:34:23 +0000 Jerry http://jerryknight.com/wp/?p=91 Facebook. I like the interaction better than Twitter. I might post more on here. I might even post a few pictures from time to time. Oh, and I scheduled this post to go out as close as possible to 12:34:56, 7/8/09. Not quite as exciting as when the Unix time passed through 1234567890 (on Friday the 13th nonetheless) but it’s still an interesting datetime.]]> http://jerryknight.com/wp/2009/07/08/post-of-the-year-maybe/feed/ 1 Twitter-tastic http://jerryknight.com/wp/2008/05/06/twitter-tastic/ http://jerryknight.com/wp/2008/05/06/twitter-tastic/#comments Tue, 06 May 2008 19:07:14 +0000 Jerry http://jerryknight.com/wp/2008/05/06/twitter-tastic/ I haven’t been posting much here, at least not in formal blog posts. I have jumped on the Twitter bandwagon. Well, I’m sitting on the side of the bandwagon, at least. Nobody is completely sure what Twitter is for, but it basically asks the question, “What are you doing?” It’s a lot like the Facebook status feature – “Jerry is hungry”, “Jerry is tired”, “Jerry is heartbroken over the scratch on the LCD screen of his 5D” etc. It can also be a mini-blog, or even a simple public chat kind of thing.

I find it’s a lot easier to come up with a 140-character update (that’s the size limit of Tweets) more often than it is to write witty, articulate, full-on blog posts. So watch the Twitter box on the right, or better yet, get on Twitter and follow me.

By the way, the 5D was injured during the last wedding. I was holding it with the hand strap, and the XTi was hanging on my side with the longer lens. Somehow, the two bumped ever-so-lightly, but it was enough to put a fairly bad scuff in the center of the screen. It will soon be repaired, though. The replacement plastic screen is on its way from Canon (cheap and easy to install) and I also have another protector that will go on top of the screen that’s actual glass. I’m not sure why Canon doesn’t put iPhone-quality glass on their screens. I’ve never once had the slightest scratch on my iPhone, and I put it through much more torture than the 5D. At least Nikon puts a replaceable cover on their camera screens.

]]> http://jerryknight.com/wp/2008/05/06/twitter-tastic/feed/ 0 Hello, Slicehost! http://jerryknight.com/wp/2007/12/20/hello-slicehost/ http://jerryknight.com/wp/2007/12/20/hello-slicehost/#comments Thu, 20 Dec 2007 05:15:01 +0000 Jerry http://jerryknight.com/wp/2007/12/20/hello-slicehost/ I have finally gotten around to moving this site to slicehost.com. Dreamhost was fine for what it cost, but for any kind of web development projects, it was usually less than snappy on the responsiveness meter, and that makes web development very tiring. Slicehost gives me a private, dedicated virtual server. That means that the processing, storage, and memory resources allotted to me are mine, and nobody else with an account on the same physical web server can ever use up those resources. This means there’s usually a waiting list for new accounts, because they won’t cram more accounts onto the existing servers. To serve more customers, they have to install and setup a new machine in their server farm.

This also means that they leave all the setup of my virtual web server to me. They have fresh, custom Linux installations available (Ubuntu, Fedora, etc.), but I have to install and configure my web serving software (lighttpd, PHP, MySQL, etc.) This endeavor is not for the faint of heart. It’s taken years of tinkering on my own Linux machines to get comfortable with setting up everything on my own, although the impressive progress of Linux in recent years has made it much better. Still, this is not your grandmother’s web hosting provider.

Usually, moving my website or making any serious changes to it requires a site redesign, but I’m currently lazy busy with other projects. I chose to wrap up the code and database and plug it into the new server as-is.

Also, since they call their virtual servers “slices,” I lovingly named my slice “velveeta.”

-JK

]]> http://jerryknight.com/wp/2007/12/20/hello-slicehost/feed/ 0 New Theme… http://jerryknight.com/wp/2006/10/02/new-theme/ http://jerryknight.com/wp/2006/10/02/new-theme/#comments Mon, 02 Oct 2006 22:52:07 +0000 Jerry http://jerryknight.com/wp/2006/10/02/new-theme/ No, I did not take the picture. It’s just part of the theme. The other theme I was using was starting to get a little old, so I looked around for other themes that look decent, and I found a few. Enjoy. Update: I changed the image to one of my own. Still looking for the best image to fit in that space.]]> http://jerryknight.com/wp/2006/10/02/new-theme/feed/ 2 Hello Google! http://jerryknight.com/wp/2006/09/24/hello-google/ http://jerryknight.com/wp/2006/09/24/hello-google/#comments Mon, 25 Sep 2006 02:32:13 +0000 Jerry http://jerryknight.com/wp/2006/09/24/hello-google/ Google search “Jerry Knight”. I’m fifth – still behind R&B guy and Washington Post guy, but I guess Google likes my About Me page. For some strange and pathetic reason, that really makes my day. It seemed wrong that “jerryknight.com” wasn’t in the first page of results for “Jerry Knight”, but all is well now. Someday I’ll be able to say “To find out about me, enter ‘Jerry Knight’ in Google and hit ‘I’m feeling lucky’.” Sort of like the Wordpress creator, who Anthony just told me about. Google for “matt” and hit “I’m feeling lucky”. For those not geeky enough to know the all the advanced Google features, “I’m feeling lucky” automatically sends you to the first website in the results of your search.]]> http://jerryknight.com/wp/2006/09/24/hello-google/feed/ 0 Jerry Knight’s of the World… http://jerryknight.com/wp/2006/07/10/jerry-knights-of-the-world/ http://jerryknight.com/wp/2006/07/10/jerry-knights-of-the-world/#comments Mon, 10 Jul 2006 20:15:50 +0000 Jerry http://jerryknight.com/wp/2006/07/10/jerry-knights-of-the-world/ search results, my 43things.com page is on the first page of results. (Update: It fell to the second page.) Figure that one out… I put the more interesting people borrowing my name ;-) on my About page. I find it interesting that my domain isn’t among the top results, seeing as how my name is the domain. I guess Google doesn’t think I have any search-worthy content.]]> http://jerryknight.com/wp/2006/07/10/jerry-knights-of-the-world/feed/ 4 Website Development http://jerryknight.com/wp/2006/07/05/website-development/ http://jerryknight.com/wp/2006/07/05/website-development/#comments Wed, 05 Jul 2006 20:26:23 +0000 Jerry http://jerryknight.com/wp/2006/07/05/website-development/ Rails and I haven’t yet figured out all that’s involved in actually deploying a Rails site without manually running webbrick/lighty all the time (dreamhost uses apache). I also haven’t gotten very proficient at Ruby yet. So here’s a shiny new theme from the Wordpress theme archive to pass the time.]]> http://jerryknight.com/wp/2006/07/05/website-development/feed/ 0 Transferred Domain… http://jerryknight.com/wp/2006/04/24/transferred-domain/ http://jerryknight.com/wp/2006/04/24/transferred-domain/#comments Mon, 24 Apr 2006 14:03:59 +0000 Jerry http://www.jerryknight.com/wp/?p=26 DreamHost, so since my domain registration ends this week, I figured I’d consolidate and move the domain registration to DreamHost as well. There may be some down time – I’m not sure. Update: Guess it worked.. No interruption, as it should be.]]> http://jerryknight.com/wp/2006/04/24/transferred-domain/feed/ 1 Just a temporary fix… http://jerryknight.com/wp/2006/01/19/just-a-temporary-fix/ http://jerryknight.com/wp/2006/01/19/just-a-temporary-fix/#comments Thu, 19 Jan 2006 19:10:26 +0000 Jerry http://www.jerryknight.com/wp/?p=3 ]]> http://jerryknight.com/wp/2006/01/19/just-a-temporary-fix/feed/ 0