Ever since I put Mythbuntu on my machine since 7.04, it’s been constantly locking up.  I had no idea why this was happening, but blamed it on MythTV anyways.  Just something that I’ll have to deal with.

But I may have solved the mysterious crashing.  I have a Streamzap remote control connected to my machine.  On the IR receiver, there’s a red light that goes on anytime it receives a signal, whether from the Streamzap remote or any other remote.  Obviously I only have it configured to respond to the Streamzap.

But there’s another thing that’s sending out infared.  My laptop.  On my Thinkpad, the infared is located on the front of the machine.  Sometimes downstairs I leave my computer on the counter which faces the TV.  Apparently Windows likes to constantly send out IR.  It’s trying to peg other machines to let them know it’s in range.

Well my Mythbuntu box picks up this signal.  I’ve noticed this for a while now, but didn’t think much of it since it really doesn’t bother anything except for when I’m trying to use the remote as well.

So after 3 successive lock ups in a row on my box, I noticed my Streamzap receiver picking the signal from my laptop.  So I just decided to block my IR port on my laptop.  After that my myth box stopped crashing.

Was that it?  Was the IR crashing my myth box or was it just a coincidence?  We’ll see how often it continues to lock up. 

Google is my pimp.  Pretty much Google owns me right now.  And I don’t mind one bit.

Let’s see what products I use.  

My email is handled through Google Apps.  All my documents are now on Google Docs. I never used a calendaring system before I started using Google Calendar.  I use Google Reader for my feeds, and besides email, that’s probably my most visited site.  I dropped webalizer for Google Analytics.  And now I’m using Google Chrome as my primary browser.  Coming up, I’ll have a good chance at getting an Android phone.  And then of course I only use Google search.

Thankfully, all of these services are free.

Google owns me and I’m totally fine with it.

I’ve told Yvonne a song to play for at my funeral.  But in case she dies with me, or before me, or simply forgets, I’ll be posting the songs up here.  Hopefully my website won’t die (more like the server’s drives die) before I die.  But I trust my hosting company.  And I trust Internet Archive.

I have a new song to add to the list, which prompted me to write this post

I’ll Fly Away – Jars of Clay
I Will Rise – Chris Tomlin

Google Chrome is now my default web browser.  At least for the next week.  We’ll see how I like it for the time being.  It’s hard to go away from Firefox and the addons that I love to use.  But we’ll see how it goes.

I like it so far.  Like the tabbed home page, the fast browsing (especially the fast javascript engine).  I like the application creation.  Although I was already doing this with Mozilla Prism, it’s much easier within Chrome.  Omnibox is nice.  Download box is nice.  All the simplicity/integration stuff is nice.

Things I don’t like so far?  WebKit engine is fast, but it doesn’t work with our editor.  Well, I guess that’s our fault for not supporting it, but we’re not doing anything out of the totally crazy (jQuery, tinymce, other DOM stuff).  I’m sure there are other websites that might be messed up with the WebKit engine, but that’s life.

Biggest thing I miss from Firefox is the addons.  There is a DOM inspector, but nothing as good as Firebug.

Let’s just say I won’t be uninstalling Firefox any time soon.  I have IE8 beta 2 and Google Chrome to test.  I only lasted a couple days with IE8 before going back to Firefox.  I wonder how long I’ll last with Chrome.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/Music/09/01/people.sean.combs.ap/index.html?eref=rss_topstories

Diddy. Puff Daddy. P. Diddy.  Puffy…  Whatever you want to call this fool is an idiot.

First off, the AP sucks for actually bothering to report this garbage.  And the garbage that’s reported goes to show that some people shouldn’t have a lot of money.

People are struggling to pay for gas for their cars, and this idiot wants to complain about how he has to fly first class instead of flying his own chartered jet.  Oh no!  The travesty of it all!

Please, people. For the next President of the United States, vote for man/woman who is going to bring the gas prices down.  We can not allow this to be happening, where Diddy is forced to struggle through life in first class.  This should not be happening.