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Woohoo, blog back online!

Scuba — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 13:44:36 +0000

So there was a not so temporary outage on my site, with the whole blog not functioning for about a week. It was all pretty hectic with exams coming up, but I finally put in the effort to track the problem down. For those interested, it ended up being a problem running PHP as CGI, which in turn caused issues with my .htaccess file and Wordpress’s permalink structure. I didn’t really want to change the permalinks (as i needed all the SEO i can get), so I hunted down the problem. I’ve started using a Wordpress specific .htaccess file that I found here, which has some nifty optimizations that should help general browsing. Dreamhost, my web host, was helpful – a lot better than what I’d heard about their support. In the end their solution was just to redirect traffic from www.scuba.id.au to scuba.id.au and everything would be ok, a bit of I hack i think, but it works for now.

Whew, that was all a little bit to geeky for one paragraph.

In other news, my exams are less than a week away now. I think nows the point where I need to start stressing. So far in this holiday break I’ve managed to update my Foobar2000 and Firefox interfaces to what I consider near-perfection. I might post up the configs soon to show them off. It’s just so hard to get motivated with the likes of Digg and Facebook to consume my time. I have however, gotten a bit more organized thanks to Vitalist. I’d highly recommend it to anyone wanting to get everything back on track, get organized and Get Things Done. It all conforms to the GTD standards so its methods have already been approved by a huge population of the blogging population.

Hmm, still geeky… I guess this blog has a theme then :D

Optimus Prime – Papercraft Model

Scuba — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 07:25:05 +0000

A Paper model that transforms between Optimus Prime and a truck. Insane, just gotta try this out!

Paper Robots! – Optimus Prime

Underwater Tugboat

Scuba — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 03:07:19 +0000

Watch as this tugboat captain realizes it’s about to hit a bridge, and somehow make it out alive and well. What Luck!

Satellite Image of Rainforest Destruction in the Amazon

Scuba — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 22:11:32 +0000

This incredible satellite image shows a HUGE swath of Brazilian Amazon rain forest completely destroyed due to logging. This incredible display of deforestation is hard to believe when you observe the multi-million acre scale seen here. This 300 mile long long scar is easily visible from space and must be having a drastic impact on the environment [digg]

This is so disgusting, considering that it can be seen from space and is the size of a small country. Is it really necessary to log the worlds largest rain forest when regenerating plantations could provide identical resources? Be sure to zoom out to see the full effect on South America.