Got my website transferred to Site5 and it all seems to be working okay. I just need to make my buddy Nick transfer his website and then my poor iMac will be free from the drudgery of HTTP requests.

I just had a warped experience with a Telus rep while cancelling my old phone.

Basically, to set this up, I decided that I wanted a new phone with specifically these features:

• Reasonably cheap monthly plan
• Good looking (as far as phones can be)
• Thin
• Bluetooth enabled (non-crippled)
• iSync capable

The last two go in hand. Needless to say, I couldn’t find anything like that with Telus but Fido had a RAZRv3 phone which pretty much fulfilled all those requirements. I’ve been using it for a few weeks now and been pretty satisfied. I can send pictures to and from the phone using Bluetooth and sync all my calendars and contacts. Yay!

Today, as I called to cancel my old Telus phone, the rep asked me for my reason and I gladly volunteered my Bluetooth requirements (so that perhaps they would see the light). His response to me was almost instantaneous: “Oh, so you want to pirate software!” I kid you not!!

I was shocked! What a weird thing to say. I proceeded to explain that there is no reason for me to pirate software onto the phone. Where would I get it? Why would I want it to have additional software? At this point, he made another statement which made me cringe. (I’m paraphrasing this one) “So you want to pirate MP3s?” … Again, shock! How would I pirate MP3s with a phone? Cause the bandwidth is so fast? I again proceeded to explain to him that IF I wanted to put MP3s onto the phone that I had ripped from CDs, that is my right. Nothing illegal about it. But why would I even do that? I have an iPod for music. Duh!

Seriously, these aren’t event credible uses of Bluetooth! I don’t understand these people. They’re fighting wind mills! I just can’t believe that a company would educate their reps this way.

Obviously I made the right decision to leave them. Not a moment too soon!

I just checked my site and Wordpress wasn’t working. I was getting an “error establishing database connection”.

It’s really weird because my wp-config.php file hadn’t changed. The only thing that did is that I updated to OSX 10.4.4 and something is making Wordpress unable to connect or resolve “localhost”. I got around it by actually typing out the IP in wp-config.php (127.0.0.1). Lame!

Hopefully I’m not the only one to exerience it. I’ll have to investigate it tomorrow morning tho, cause it’s late :(

Anyway, sorry if the site was down :)

Update: This is a known problem. The Wordpress forum has a page about it.

I’m a Flickrite and I started using it to host pictures that I put up on my blog entries.

Unfortunately, there’s no way to have Flickr post the entries to my website as “Draft”. So I had to cook up a little hack for my xmlrpc.php file. Here it is in case you’re looking to do something similar with your Wordpress installation:

Michael Geist has just announced that there will be a new book out in September about “the future of Canadian Copyright Law”.

The cool thing about this is that it will be CC licensed. This may or may not mean that it will be available for free (hopefully it is). Providing it as a free download would be a Good Thing™ and would open it up to a much larger audience than the book would otherwise receive. And, since this is an important topic, the more people know about it the better!

Personally, I’m looking forward to it cause I haven’t really had any time to educate myself on Bill C-60 and don’t know any of the details surrounding the Liberal proposed copyright reforms.