There was one update that “broke” it for multiple people. When the new updates for Lifestream came out, I’d update, and it wouldn’t work. So… I’m done with that plugin for now. Not as if I need a page aggregating my social activity anyway

Heh. I’ll use Lifestream.fm for now.

Sam

Okay… so what the hell? Billy Mays died today? WHAT? I mean, that’s not even just… it was BILLY MAYS, GOD DAMNIT. We’ll always remember his voice on our TV, selling products such as OXY CLEAN, Orange Glo, Mighty Putty, and the Hurcules Hook. Billy Mays, you will be missed.

Hey everyone. This post isn’t all that meaningful, it’s really just a test post to test out some new features of the blog.

• Social RSS Syndication
• Sidebar Widgets
• Sociable Plugin (Updated)
• WordPress 2.8 Upgrade
• WP SUPER CACHE

Listing some new changes wasn’t the only reason I posted here. Mainly, I made this post to test out and/or update the WP-Super Cache, which creates static HTML pages for the blog. I, honestly, still don’t know if I like it yet. I mean, it updates for post changes, but not layout and setting changes. If anyone knows how I can go about fixing this, please comment, or shoot me an email.

Sam Ferry

Hello Everyone.

Today, I figured I’d make a post on a subject that I’ve blogged about many, many times before — AceIRC. Now, AceIRC is a Global IRC Network–like so many others out there. You may have read the wonderful AceIRC Hate Post on a wonderful (horrible) website known as McInTEC. The reason this post surfaced was simply because Jason–the owner of McInTEC–got angry because we [AceIRC] revoked some permissions of his staff position on AceIRC because of TOS violations. Jason took it upon himself to close his channel, leave the network, write a horrible post bashing me and the network I stand firmly behind, and then having the gall to come back on the network (before his permanent ban was enacted), and ask me–someone he publicly stated he HATED–to help him configure his personal IRC network so he could permanently break away from Ace, and have his own place to bash us, and spread lies to other users, drawing them away from AceIRC. Oh well!

AceIRC is amazing… plain and simple. Along with the wonderful staff members AceIRC has, managing the network adamantly, we have wonderful users. Users make or break an IRC network, and we’ve been successful for five years. AceIRC recently celebrated it’s fifth birthday, by the way — Happy Birthday AceIRC!

If you’d heard anything bad about AceIRC that would discourage you from connecting, disregard it, as it’s probably lies [and/or slander] spread by the wonderful McInTEC Community who’s owner was banned from AceIRC after breaking the rules so many times, it’s not even funny. I don’t want to turn this into a hate post, but that community is horrid. They enjoy saying horrible things about Ace, because they’re angry that they were kicked out because they didn’t play by the rules. Fuck them! If they want to go ahead and break rules, let them do it elsewhere. I find it horrible that they’re “president”, Jason McIntyre enjoys blaming myself, and some of the people from the Datablab Community for everything that goes wrong there, without looking at it rationally. Good riddance.

Now that our horrid history with them has been listed, it’s time to get on with the post — LOL. AceIRC is a great IRC network, with channels discussing tech, SciFi RPG, and even just general chatting in #chat. AceIRC’s personable staff include the netadmins: VorteX, our chief; Zyrell; Vass; and myself (nickname: sam; and yes, lowercase is better). Also, we have our services administrators: CGinCA; Sugar; and timburke, one of the head members of the Datablab Community. Our IRC operators include: Adduc, a Datablab Community leading member; FG; Vince; XWolfe; and Rico. AceIRC’s main tech channel is Datablab, with a website located at www.datablab.com. Datablab is a technology discussion community, founded by timburke, and currently managed by three Ace IRCops: sam; timburke; and Adduc. Osxdude also assists in the operation of the Datablab Community, and is one of our main chatters. If you’d ever like to invite people to Datablab, or visit yourself, you can find us by visiting illinois.us.aceirc.org/datablab in your favorite IRC client.

AceIRC has been a wonderful place for myself to be, and I’ve enjoyed all of the time I’ve spent there. Upon becoming an IRCop, the staff there welcomed me with open arms, just like they welcome any new user to the network. Come join a wonderful network — AceIRC.

Visit the website at www.aceirc.org.

Sf.

Well, I forgot my fourteenth application, which was Internet  RadioBox, an application that allows you to listen to ShoutCAST streams while connected to the internet. Anyways, hope you enjoy this video… Also, sorry the audio isn’t all that great. I probably could’ve recorded it seperately, and made a nice audio track to go along, but I just decided to whip this video up quickly, so I didn’t do any of the fancy stuff… OH WELL!

Simply testing RSS aggregation (to be sure Twitter and Ping.fm aren’t double-posting to Facebook)

Hey everyone. As you’ve noticed, I haven’t been updating this blog very much, and I haven’t really been online much at all. Well… I haven’t really been doing anything. I’ve been barely Tweeting, and scarcely talking on IRC. It’ll all change soon when summer hits. I’ve been really busy this past month, and haven’t had much time for the social-media and internet side of my life (damn studying). I’ll be around here and there for the rest of the month, but when June hits, I’ll be on full time again.

Thanks.

I was on my mobile connection, and decided to do a speed test. Below are the results. My mobile connection screams, doesn’t it?

  MediaFire: Free File Hosting.

  So anyways, I recently tried out MediaFire, and honestly,

  I’m loving it. Even a free account is feature-packed, giving you a public folder with a custom URL, unlimited space, and a 100mb file size (meaning you can upload a file that is 100mb in size).

MediaFire has an amazing uploader on their main page. It allows you to upload multiple files and see the statuses of every one as it uploads, all in a smooth, clean interface. 

Off to the right, you can see some of the features offered to free users, and then the ADDITIONAL features offered to MediaPro users (pro version, $8/month). Notice, you get unlimited uploads, unlimited downloads, unlimited b/w, and storage, and you can’t forget free image galleries (you’ll have a gallery of grouped images that you upload). Also, unlike other file-storage/file-sharing sites, there is nothing to install. Everything is done from an amazingly-simple, straight-forward, web interface. If you need a simple place to upload files, MediaFire is the choice for businesses and consumers. Give them a try today, and you won’t be dissappointed. To sign up, pop on over to http://www.mediafire.com.

Sf.

Yes, I know I’ve made posts about Twitter before, but I love it! Twitter is a way to keep in touch with friends, family, or whatever, by posting “tweets,” or text-message-like posts onto your Twitter profile. Each “tweet” can be a maximum of 140 characters in length, much like a text message. Twitter is just a very simple way for you to keep in touch, and keep updates of what you’re doing, online.

There are many desktop applications (and mobile applications) available for users to connect to Twitter, most based on the Adobe AIR framework:

• Twitteriffic: A simple, elegant Twitter client for Mac and iPhone. Visit http://www.iconfactory.com.
• Twhirl: An Adobe AIR application available for Linux, Mac, and Windows. Visit: http://www.twhirl.org.
• DestroyTwitter: An elegantly-designed Adobe AIR Twitter application. http://www.destroytwitter.com.
• Nambu: A nicely-designed social client for the iPhone and for Mac. Visit: http://www.nambu.com.

If you haven’t already joined Twitter, sign up today, and be sure to follow me at twitter.com/samferry.

Sf.