I’ve been having issues with my Gmail while using the newest developer builds of Chrome. When clicking on an email message the loading display at the top of the screen would come on and it would just sit there for approximately 30 seconds before displaying an error message and then allowing normal use of email. I thought it may have been due to the dev build but it works fine running dev on my home machine.

Thankfully this one had a very simple solution. Click the wrench (settings) button. Go to Options. Personal Stuff, Clear Browsing Data… I only checked Clear Cache and set the Period to be ‘Everything’ and Gmail started working normal again.

ABC loved him the most with 56 front page references.

Then CBS at 26

Followed by CNN with 23

NPR with 17

MSNBC comes in at 12

Bottom of the pack is Fox News with 9

Thank you national media for sullying the man’s memory with your typical over exposure. Hat’s off to all you vultures.

Microsoft has finally released Vista’s SP2 after closing the beta program. The final releases can be downloaded here:

32 bit

64 bit

Careful, according to Google, the site google.com may be harmful to your computer.

There are many sites out there that will give you a full description of what the UNIX Epoch standard date system is, why it is used, and a thorough understanding of why that’s important to you. You also probably don’t have time for a history/computer science course when all you want to do is convert that time stamp into something that looks nice for your boss in Excel. In that case, here you go:

All examples shown assume that the UNIX time stamp is in column A.

GMT – Greenwich Mean Time – This is the standard example you see across the Internet
=(A1/86400)+25569

EST – Eastern Standard Time (GMT – 5:00)
=((A1-18000)/86400)+25569

CST – Central Standard Time (GMT – 6:00)
=((A1-21600)/86400)+25569

MST – Mountain Standard Time (GMT – 7:00)
=((A1-25200)/86400)+25569

PST – Pacific Standard Time (GMT – 8:00)
=((A1-28800)/86400)+25569

Now set your column format to a Date field to your liking. I use the 3/14/01 13:30 format so I can include the easily sortable military time format.

I’ve recently redirected my home page of http://untangible.com to http://untangible.com/blog using Apache’s mod_rewrite functions. This way users coming to the main site are transparently redirected to the blog yet the old Google indexed URLs that are referencing the blog subfolder still work. I wanted my sitemap which is built by a Wordpress plugin to reference the URLs without the blog subdirectory since it’s cleaner. Instead of manually changing the xml output (which would have taken all of 10 seconds) I decided to change the WordPress address setting in the control panel. My thought was that it would then just reference untangible.com instead of untangible.com/blog while still redirecting traffic to the proper path due to the mod_rewrite rule in place.

After doing this the website could still be viewed properly and all the links worked but when trying to sign into wp-admin the system would just bring me back to the login page without any error messages. To fix the issue I had to log into my virtual host site and manually change the siteurl field in the options MySQL table back to http://untangible.com/blog.

Lesson learned. Read about what the functions do before making assumptions.

Saw a guy at a local gas station who forgot what side his fuel door was on.  Instead of turning around or selecting a different pump like a normal person would he decided to do this instead.