If it takes off, I expect everyone will be talking about hoosgot over the next weeks and months. The idea is to allow you to ask the world if anyone has got what you want maybe help you find what you are looking for, given the international nature of the web.
All you have to do is include "hoosgot" (pronounced "who's got") or "lazyweb" in your blog post or tweet and it'll pick it up. (Is it just me, or is that pronunciation a stretch?). You can follow it on Twitter, but I suspect that it'll be tweeting a bit too regularly for me though unless hoosgot works out what's a question, what's an answer and what is just commentary (like this post!).
Assuming that they sort out the filtering, It could be useful for anything that doesn't require UPS in nature. i.e. asking for device drivers for esoteric hardware or to find out answers to stuff such as "hoosgot a good receipe for dairy free banana milkshake?" I can't see questions such as "hoosgot a spare washing machine that I can borrow?" working outside your own circle of friends and freecycle and craigslist has that covered anyway.
Definitely worth keeping an eye on to see where it goes.
I'm checking out my wife's website to my new MacBook and get this error message:
svn: In directory 'website/gallery/piccies'
svn: Can't move source to dest
svn: Can't move 'website/gallery/piccies/.svn/tmp/prop-base/IMG_0013-thumb.jpg.svn-base' to 'website/gallery/piccies/.svn/prop-base/IMG_0013-thumb.jpg.svn-base': No such file or directory
I'm pretty sure that there's no problem with the subversion repository as I've been using it for months with no problem so I asked a friend to check it out on his Windows box… which failed with the same error. We thought at first that linux was allowing something illegal to occur which Windows and Macs weren't. Then we thought about the other differences between Linux and Windows/Mac OS X.
After a while. It turns out that there are two files in the directory: IMG_0013.jpg and IMG_0013.JPG. One svn mv command later and the problem is solved.
It would have been nice to have had a better error message though!
When (WHEN) your backup drive goes bad, which you will notice because your last backup failed, replace it immediately. This is your number one priority. Don't wait until the weekend when you have time, do it now, before you so much as touch your computer again. Do it before goddamned breakfast. The universe tends toward maximum irony. Don't push it.
Some very good advice. I just back up my "cannot afford to lose" data at the moment. If I lose my hard drive, I have a good day or so of reinstalling and re-setting-up to look forward to. It's probably worth the £100 or so for a new hard drive.
I thought that I'd answer Davey's question: what do you do to get away from PHP?. I also enjoy seeing the non-PHP side of people on Twitter, though I'm tending to use Twitter as a micro-blogging tool more at the moment.
I enjoy spending my "non-PHP" time with my family. We are members of the National Trust as it gives us cheap access to land where the boys can run around freely. We also go camping for our holidays, though like to do it in a little bit of comfort.
I also enjoy photography, though still have a long way to go to being more than "proficient" at it. Looking through my Flickr stream, and it is also obvious that I like old trains - mainly as a photographic subject. There's something about the pent up power in the old steam trains, that just isn't there in the modern people transporters we have nowadays. I'll photograph anything really as I haven't really discovered what I'm good at!
Another thing I'm doing is writing a book, of course! I love reading fiction - anything really, from Bernard Cornwall to Peter Hamilton via Terry Pratchett. I also read "technical" books to keep my brain sharp and to keep on learning.
So what about you? Answers on a postcard and make sure you let Davey know too!
An off topic post for this blog, but I thought I should mention that it was a bit wet yesterday and it took me 4 hours to do my usual 30 min commute from work back to home!
A couple of pictures show it better:
Just after I'd left work:
Joining the M50:
I got home easily enough - mainly it was a case of taking it easy which wasn't difficult as the traffic was very slow!
