When Lunarpages decided that we were using too much CPU (central processing unit), they booted us to an “abuse server.” The abuse server is designed to stop resource-heavy sites or sites that are experiencing Denial-of-Service attacks from taking down all of the other sites on a shared-server environment.

One of the safety switches on the abuse server blocks IP addresses when it detects that too much data is transferred to or from the site. That means that if you try to FTP (file-transfer protocol) files to the site or download them to backup your site, it blocks you from having any access at all to the site. So, for awhile, both Claude and I were locked out of our server. It was a nightmare.

As of this morning, Claude was able to view the site again. Balance has been restored to the Force.

Okay, enough nerdery. Back to your regularly scheduled nonsense.

Oh, and while you’re here - check out JeffSays.com.

My dad sent me a link to a new program called Jing. Check out my quick intro to it:

UPDATE: I have noticed one problem and received confirmation from the developer — you can’t resize videos. So, if you want to take a screen vid of something and throw it on your Wordpress site, it has to be no more than 440px wide before you start messing up your template. Boo!

Every time that I see P!nk’s name spelled with the exclamation point, I think that I should change up how I spell mine. I’m leaning towards umlauts to celebrate the German in me: Füzz - but I’m not opposed to using the paragraph symbol in place of the F: ¶uzz. Or, perhaps, I’ll emphasize the U better: fUzz… Fùzz… or Fûzz. Of course, if I went with FUzz, it would make a nice statement… F-U! Hmmm….

Too much coffee… sorry.

Oh, btw… this is my 3,000th post. Hooray.

There is a pretty slick plugin for WordPress called, “PodPress.” When it’s working, it provides a really cool playback option for podcasts and other audio. Whenever you upgrade WordPress, however, it gets all bipolar, starts kicking babies, and pisses all over your couch.

Hopefully they’ll figure out a way to add it to “the loop” without h*cking up WordPress image functionality, like it so often does.

*Note: For those of you who are using WordPress 2.3 or higher, and your thumbnails are not working, disable your PodPress plugin and you will again enjoy Thumbnail bliss. I believe WordPress 2.5 has it’s own podcast system (non-plugin), but I haven’t tested it yet.

Anyway, to MightySeek - I love your plugin - when it works. When it doesn’t, it’s a little bitch.

A note from the Fuzz Martin Media Nerdery: This is just a test post from WordPress 2.5.

There is nothing more to see here (or anywhere, really).

I bet Jed is glad that he bought a combo Blu Ray/HD-DVD player. All signs are pointing to Toshiba pulling the plug on its HD-DVD format.

Multiple users have written to tell us that Toshiba is planning to halt production of devices related to HD-DVD. According to Japanese broadcasting network NHK, Toshiba will lose “hundreds of millions of dollars” as the format war finally draws to a close. Regardless, investors are pleased that Toshiba has made the decision to cut its losses. This comes after a last-ditch price cut was unable to prevent Wal-mart from throwing their lot in with Blu-ray, although some sources suggest that Wal-mart was already aware of Toshiba’s plans to withdraw from fight.

Thank you, thank you, thank you, Google! I was paying somewhere around $4 a pop anytime I needed to use 411 on my cell phone. Now Google has a free 411 service for finding businesses.

1-800-GOOG-411

Check out the details at: http://www.google.com/intl/en_us/mobile/goog411/index.html

Just messin’ around with my new reflector… I thought I’d play around in the basement shower. Haha…

Another test… now with sound.

[flashvideo filename=videos/riding.flv /]

This is a Flash video test for a new plugin that I’m rockin’. If it works, you’ll see my good friend, Tonya Williams racing around the barrels at a barrel race. She’s fast!

[flashvideo filename=videos/M2U006031.flv /]

Today is the big day when Apple releases a whole bunch of cool new products. People are speculating that they are going to release an “ultra-portable” new MacBook. We’ll see! They always release these just in time for us to get our tax returns. No new toys for me this year, though. At least, that’s what I keep telling myself.

Apple’s Leopard Operating System debuts tomorrow night at 6pm at your local Apple Store! It’s going to be friggin’ sweet! AND… it’s already getting some cool reviews. The Wall Street Journal’s headline kinda sums it up: Leopard: Smarter, Faster than Vista. Now that is going to raise some eyebrows.

Here’s a video from the WSJ on Leopard: