Jun 12
Anyone else out there ever have any problems with Ping-o-matic?
I believe the way this thing is supposed to be setup is so that when you ping them they ping all kinds of other sites for you. WP by default has ping-o-matic set to ping.
I noticed when I was looking at tags earlier [...] [...more]
Posted: under Technology.
Anyone else out there ever have any problems with Ping-o-matic?
I believe the way this thing is supposed to be setup is so that when you ping them they ping all kinds of other sites for you. WP by default has ping-o-matic set to ping.
I noticed when I was looking at tags earlier today that technorati for some reason didn’t have me listed under any tags. Ping-o-matic should ping them so I get listed. I went ahead and manually pinged technorati earlier today, and a couple of hours later when I looked I was listed under tags (even tags on posts from days ago…). My first thought is that ping-o-matic isn’t working….
Of course, now I need to test it out. In order to do that I need to post, and what better post to use to test it out than a post saying that I need to test it out and then explaining that I’m going to test it with the post that…. you get the idea. 
Jun 12
I had TiVo record an episode of the original Battlestar Galactica for me since I’d never seen it before. I knew that they had changed some of the characters around in the new series and such and I wanted to check out how it used to be.
I didn’t like it as much as the new [...] [...more]
Posted: under TV.
I had TiVo record an episode of the original Battlestar Galactica for me since I’d never seen it before. I knew that they had changed some of the characters around in the new series and such and I wanted to check out how it used to be.
I didn’t like it as much as the new series, but then again I tend to like newer things. Still, it was pretty good with a couple of (unintended) totally funny parts. In general, the old show seems to have more humor thrown into it. It doesn’t have the dark, serious atmosphere that the new one has. In the episode that I saw, Starbuck is on leave and goes gambling (big surprise) and meets up with a man that claims to be his father. Really, the man is just trying to get away from some weird guys who are trying to kill him, but genetic tests end up proving that the stranger really IS Starbuck’s dad. The man insists on not telling him, however, because he doesn’t want Starbuck to leave his life aboard the Galactica just to catch up with him (Starbuck’s idea). The episode wasn’t too bad overall, though it was rather odd that the climax of the episode, when the bad guys try to kill Starbuck and his dad, only lasts for about a minute and is over before you know what’s going on.
As for the funny parts….. Starbuck is trying to figure out his odds with the hand he has as he’s playing cards. He pulls out a calculator that looks like it’s straight out of the 70’s/80’s. They’re living on a spaceship yet this is the best calculator they have offer….
The really funny part though is how we have to find out that the stranger is Starbuck’s dad. He tries to explain to Starbuck and Apollo that it is possible to tell if two people are related by doing testing (in fact, he claims that that is his job: to test orphans and find relatives for them to be with). The two pilots are like “no way! That’s impossible!”. Starbuck’s dad also makes the comment that testing everyone in the fleet would take thousands of years (or yahren as they say). Boy oh boy, life before DNA testing…
Of course, sci-fi stuff is always like that. No matter how futuristic writers/authors try to make things, there will always be things that, 20 or 30 years later, will seem ridiculous because we have already discovered said things or something better that makes said thing pointless.
At least they did better than Andromeda in that I didn’t see any IBM monitors or anything like that anywhere…
