Sep
13
2007
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Written by Kacey Green
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Thursday, 13 September 2007 |
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After I complained to T-Mobile about the horrible service their roaming partner SunCom is providing me one of their smartphone customers, I mysteriously switched to AT&T for about one week, and it was awesome, AT&T service with T-mobile billing and features, that's the kind of service I like. Unfortunately all good things end, so did my time on a competent roaming provider, I woke up one morning to find myself back on the SunCom crapfeast. I checked to see if I got any email on accounts that only the phone has access to and was greeted with an unfortunately familiar message, "the remote party has ended the connection."
The solution:
To get my phone to stop freaking out I have to hold the power button until it asks about shutting down, or press the reset button. After the phone finishes a two-minute boot up, and a one and a half minute reconnection to the so-called provider, I have my data connection back until SunCom flakes again.
Rant continued after the jump
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Sep
12
2007
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Written by Kacey Green
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Wednesday, 12 September 2007 |
 Today there was a moderately stiff breeze. I gained a new appreciation for redundant hood latches, and I can even understand why for some of the races I considered entering my Prius into, many required hood pins. Thankfully, nobody was injured and property damage only occurred to a vehicle already declared a total loss.
I was just over halfway through my first day at my new day job and my manager asked me to help move some vehicles to service. My assignment was a Chevrolet Malibu that recently had a crushed bumper, creased hood, and it wore a spare tire in the rear. It started and ran fine around the lot.
Speeds on the route we took were low, but not low enough, I completed the first turn and accelerated to 30 mph just fine, I thought, "Ok this will be quick and we'll be on to something else." Did I mention that today we had a mild steady breeze? Up until this point, the hood on this vehicle bounced about half an inch on bumps and in the headwind as if it were latched but had a slight bit of play (like many old cars' hoods). Did I mention the breeze?
Continue reading Yikes! after the jump
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Sep
11
2007
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Written by Kacey Green
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Tuesday, 11 September 2007 |
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The other surprise in store for you today is that we have forums again! The vendor of our comment system, Azrul, is letting us use a one-time demo of their forums software. This name of the software is My Talk, after much debate online and offline, I contacted Azrul to see what our options were. Why Azrul? I chose them because of all the various pieces of software we have on the site, the comment system is one of the best. The new forum software is a little more lightweight than other forum software.
We needed lightweight forum software because, from my observations over the last three implementations of this site, 2002 through 2007, our readers have created few topics. We were trying to be thorough when creating categories and failed, they were both too rigid and numerous, overwhelming new users, and confusing veterans including some moderators about where topics should be posted. There just five categories this time around: hybrids, tech, environment, general, and support. Part of the reason for having for having so many categories before, our front page comment system used the forum to hold comments, Azrul solved this for us what are previous comment engine developer let us down.
Posting is very simple login using your username and password, go into the forums using the menu, post any topic or reply to an existing one. We will be upgrading to the final version in a few days hopefully.
Kacey Green
http://www.grlt.com//
"Tech with a twist of lime!"
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Sep
11
2007
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Written by Kacey Green
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Tuesday, 11 September 2007 |
 Those readers that know how much I like Woot.com will understand the posting goodness in store today when I say Two 4 Tuesday (refering to the number of posts)! First, up, while running errands today I crossed paths with Jason Benns, a local Prius driver. Seeing two marked Prius from different companies is about as common as seeing two Prius together a gas station. Jason drives a CoStar Group branded 2006 package #7 NL Prius wrapped with the CoStar Group branding. Jason says his company bought 120 of these, some of which have XM radio. Three of these vehicles travel throughout South Carolina: there are Jason's in Columbia, one in Charleston, and one that travels between north and South Carolina. There is also one in Florida. These Prius are equipped with an extra antenna, which the company uses to track their drivers. After the jump is a photo gallery of the CoStar Prius. Underneath the wrap, the Prius' paint is white. Jason gets about 50MPG city, the people that gave him the vehicle said to use B gear, I suggested he not do that unless descending a mountain, remember B is the same as L in a regular automatic transmission.
Costar handles commercial real estate in the United States and United Kingdom.
Continue to the photo album.
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Sep
10
2007
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Written by Kacey Green
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Monday, 10 September 2007 |
Superstar of SuperStar blog has reviewed us. Here's what she had to say:
GRLT.com website review
I like to judge what a website going to be about by the title. I know, it's a bad case of "judging a book by its cover" but it's just something I do. So the judgements I had for "Tech with a twist of lime!" were:
The design of the blog is a nice clean three column layout with the content in the center and other links on either side.
The information presented in the blog is very good. It brings news of what is going on technology world (fuel economy hybrid cars, and environmental issues, are the primary discussion topics). I was very pleased with the presentation and how organized and detailed it was.
Usually, when reviewing a weblog, I skim through the archives, dipping in occasionally to figure out more about the writer and where they are coming from. In this case, I sat and read through the entire archives and before I knew it, I was hooked.
Overall I this blog is done exceptionally well. I do not feel this is a perfect blog, and I don't think its one that everyone will enjoy, but overall this blog is one of the best of its types. Even if you aren't into reading up on technology, this blog is worth checking out.
by SuperStar
I want to thank SuperStar for taking the time to review our site.
Kacey Green
www.grlt.com
"Tech with a twist of lime!"
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Sep
09
2007
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Written by Kacey Green
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Sunday, 09 September 2007 |
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Another publisher and I worked with one of the developers of
the Content Management System (CMS) that this site uses and over at my test
site we now have full RSS feeds! As the
version of the CMS that the test site is using gets closer to completion I will
start upgrading this site, right now it still needs more testing.
I promised my readers would get full RSS feeds, and I did
not let you down. If you are still using
the old RSS feed, now is a good time to switch (the links are at the top of the
page and in your browser's feed notification area). When I upgrade this site to the new version,
I'm not sure that I will remember to mention the feeds in all the commotion.
I will
make an announcement before upgrade time comes, and will do my best to make the
transition as smooth as possible. Over
at the test site upgrades take about thirty minutes, I figure from what I have
seen this site will take the same 30 minutes for the files, but migrating the data
and all of the enhancements will take longer.
Currently I expect the upgrade to take about three hours, I will do a full
backup and a dry run, if successful the changes will stay and I'll work on
ironing out the small bugs that will surely crop up. If the test isn't successful, I'll restore the
backup and make an announcement. Nevertheless,
that day is at least another month away, I'll bring the topic up again as we
get closer to the upgrade or if there is another feature you have been asking
for that has been finished.
Kacey Green
www.grlt.com
"Tech with a twist of lime!"
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Sep
08
2007
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Written by Kacey Green
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Saturday, 08 September 2007 |
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I just updated the program that handles URLs here, and I have found that the site seems snappier and all the old URLs still work! However, I have managed to break the custom Google search feature. I have contacted the developer of that program and I will make post a comment to this post once we fix Google searches. All of the other search features on-site are working.
If anything related to URLs seems amiss, please post a comment here so I can fix it.
Update: I had missed one small setting and the sytem was making URLs the Custom Google program didn't understand.
Kacey Green
www.grlt.com
"Tech with a twist of lime!"
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