sweet holy god, LOOK AT THIS!

sonnet offers CPU upgrading for the tibook i own. my beloved tibook that stopped a 50 pound dvd cabinet, the tibook that has no recordable optical drive, but i love him anyway, the tibook that i will never part with because he is so beautiful and the new aluminum ones look cheap and generic like an airbrushed regional department store model.

for christmas this year, my tibook is getting a new brain!

i’m not saying i except tech support people to be gods. i don’t expect them to know everything about everything. but when i go to a tech support guy at a hosting company with a question, the last thing i expect to get in return is the dude asking me how i figured out what my php config settings were in the first place.

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i mean, maybe the guy just doesn’t know php. maybe he’s more into like, the intricacies of IIS or apache or asp.NET or something. actually what i mean is: i hope php isn’t his normal milieu, because if it is, this hosting company has to rethink its hiring practices. isn’t looking at your php config pretty much a programming basic? you know, along the lines of reading out the values of an array or writing a loop or looking at the source of a webpage? fellow nerds? am i right?

update: the guy admits he’s not a php expert, then proceeds to tell me that his superior says OperationX just flat-out doesn’t work in the way that i said it does. in the way that i KNOW it does, since it works on two other servers at two other completely different hosting companies. the best he can muster is that maybe those other companies are using an older version of php. they’re not, it’s the same, and one of the first things i checked. then he tells me that they don’t support ‘coding issues.’ am i talking to myself here? the EXACT SAME THING works on at least TWO INDEPENDENT SERVERS at TWO DIFFERENT HOSTING COMPANIES.

so thanks for nothing, tech support. guess i’m moving the client to a different hosting company. you do not live up to your company’s name.

so far tivo is pretty great. the dvr only has one tuner though, but i got it for free so i’m not complaining. so far the tivo suggestions thing has known that i like mythbusters and has recorded a really good episode of the cosby show for me. the best part, actually is the rewinding of live tv. now if i see, oh, say a really funny bumper on adult swim, i don’t have to make a lame attempt to explain it to eric, i can just show him. hooray for tivo!

i finally have all of my photos transfered to flickr, and buying a flickr pro account plus downgrading my hosting plan (no more hosting all of those photos on my server) is saving me a few bucks a year. i am quite impressed with flickr’s tag system and notes. also i’ve already had some of my photos tagged as favorites by people i’ve never met! so far i think this is a far more interesting way to make new acquaintences online than social-networking sites like friendster and myspace. thanks ian!

for those of you that use flickr, do you think it’s super? should i use it instead of hosting my photos on my own site?

update: after some vigourous IMing with ian, i’ve decided to jump on the flickr bandwagon. i did some figuring and even with getting a pro account, i’ll save $35 a year by being able to switch to a lower hosting plan. ian, you really should be a salesman.

i’ve ordered tivo.

i swear i wasn’t planning to, but i went to the website and saw that they were offering boxes free (shipping included) with a 12 month subscription and i couldn’t let it go, particularly since as of yesterday eric and i have real full-service cable. i am inordinately excited, but that’s usual for me when gadgets are involved.

got my new (used) game boy sp and it’s super-neat. the guy i bought it from included the ac adapter/charger, case and 2 games! so far i’m totally sucking at mario 3 (to be expected…did i mention i’m really not that good at video games?) but loving the backlit screen and rechargable battery. i’m also enjoying the case of beer henry gave me for my old game boy advance.

hooray for gadgets!

this phone is awesome. it’s the sexiest piece of machinery i’ve ever held in my hands. it’s thinner than i thought it would be and the screen looks amazing. the menus are easy to navigate and although the flat keypad was a little weird-feeling at first, i’m already used to it and in love. in love with a phone. now my tibook will have something to talk to about its aircraft-grade hotness. i can’t believe i actually ordered a different phone first. how wrong i was. considering getting/making a case for it similar to ben’s sunglasses-bag trick for his sony ericsson. i feel both wonderfully decadent and ashamedly disgusted with myself for owning this phone. ah, guily pleasures.