TED Ideas Worth Spreading

I have had this site in my book marks for ages, but only today have I had a proper look in to it. IT is a non profit organisation who have got together with many world leaders in the fields of science, technology, politics, business and more to produce hundreds of short videos on there chosen field. (How about learn what the higgs boson partical is in 10 minutes, as well as see the ultimate formula that describes the whole universe written on a single page here! I do like my physic)

TED Ideas Worth Sharing

Defiantly a good site for the lunch time bookmarks.

Enjoy

DevilWAH

I had to come bacck and post this video from the site.

The Beauty  of data Visualisation

And for thoses of you interested in news then you might like this page, this one kind of leads on from the video above.

Newsmap

The Four Classes of Socity

Time from some light entertainment… Which class are you?

I am a Geek

One of four titles used to classify someone based on their technical and social skills. The other three titles are nerd, dork, and normie. The difference between the four titles can be easily shown in table form:

Title Tec Skills Social Skills
Nomie No Yes
Geek Yes Yes
Nerd Yes No
Dork No No

Normie: A normal person. Blah.

Geek: An outwardly normal person who has taken the time to learn technical skills. Geeks have as normal a social life as anyone, and usually the only way to tell if someone is a geek is if they inform you of their skills.

Nerd: A socially awkward person who has learned technical skills due to the spare time they enjoy from being generally neglected. Their technical knowledge then leads normies to neglect them even further, leading to more development of their technical skills, more neglection, etc. This vicious cycle drives them even more into social oblivion.

Dork: A person who, although also socially awkward, doesn’t have the intelligence to fill the void with technical pursuits, like a nerd, and is forced to do mindless activities. Almost always alone. Usually with an XBox. Like playing Halo. All day. Every day. Not even understanding how the Xbox is making the pretty pictures on the screen. Very sad.

(Now forgive me I forget where I picked this up, But if any one knows the original author please let me know so I can give credit where it is due. )

Site URL update.

I have just the blog to a new directory on the web page, hopefully I have caught all the link errors, but if you see any broken links please let me know.

Ahh the site cache caught me out there, it seems more links than I thought where broken, however with the help of a few link checking sites and a nice helpful plug in I am hoping they are all fixed now.

Cheers

Admin and Email

Well today I have spent trying to tidy up the admin side of things, adding in google analytics’s and tidying up the links pages. Still more to do but I am working as well you know..

One thing I came across was that email is not working. After playing around for a bit I came to two conclusions, First the PHP solution is not for me, so I decided to go SMTP. Only then to remember my wonderful company firewall policy (that I wrote), don’t allow email to be sent. Still at least I know where I stand with it now and been finding out more about this word press as I go. Time to go home now so will have to wait till tomorrow to open up the port for this server. Until then I don’t get email alerts but I am sure I will survive.

Home to study and maybe another post later about Spanning Trees and stuff.

Keep happy people.

Well Looking a bit better

OK so I haven’t really got much further with an actually interesting blog.. But I have spent some constructive time playing word press, working out how to do a few things and started population the links.

For any one interested in the particulars this blog is running on a DELL GX280, running UNBUNTU server. (now don’t you all feel much better for knowing that). My next step is to work out how to back up this site, my old website was simply copy the folder, but I feel with SQL this might not be quite as straight forward. I am also trying to work out how to create posts on multiply pages? if any one knows I would be always grateful.

Well I’m going back to looking at a back up solution, but fear no the first real post will be here soon.

DevilWAH