Posted
February 19th, 2007 at
8:23 PM and filed under
Web.
Some very strange things are happening on the photo pages of users of Flickr. As of my first sighting of this at 8:00 PM tonight, it appears that on the second page, halfway down on some Flickr users’ photo streams, there are one or two photo’s whose thumbnails do not match the higher-resolution pictures viewable when the thumbnail is clicked on. Typically these thumbnails are pixelated and poorly scaled.
Two examples of this can be found on the second page, halfway down on my photostream for the fourth picture titled “Ice Storm” and the third entitled “The Nintendo Wii”.
In addition to this, it appears that for some, if not all photos, when the “all sizes” option is selected on the individual photo pages, an entirely different image is displayed.
An example of this can be found by clicking the “all sizes” icon on this page.
Hopefully this is just intermittent data center issues Flickr’s having and will improve soon.
Updates as they happen.
Update x1: Flickr’s typical ’system down’ message — “Flickr is having a massage.” — is up. Hopefully it’s just a minor glitch in the software and things will be back up soon.
Update x2: This entry was just posted on the Flickr blog. Apparently they had a small issue with their image cache and things should be up and running shortly. Hooray!
Update x3: According to the Flickr blog, everything should be in order now. If you still see mismatched images on photo pages, try emptying your cache, or do a hard refresh (I believe it’s shift + ctrl-r on Windows, not sure about Mac).
Posted
February 17th, 2007 at
12:44 AM and filed under
Sidenotes.
For Twitter users too easily distracted by Twitterific, via a tweet, I found out about a great OS X Dashboard widget called Twitterlex. Its features are pretty much the same as those of Twitterific, but, being a widget, you can easily hide it, so as to stay on track and productive, with just the click of a button.
Posted
February 16th, 2007 at
2:09 AM and filed under
OS X,
Web Dev.
After putting it off for a while, I finally got Ruby on Rails running on OS X 10.4 (Tiger) the other night so that I could take a look at it. Crazily enough, I actually had an install from last May that I must have given up on. Luckily, all I had to do was update it with new Gems and everything was in working order… except for MySQL. Wow was that a headache.
In the end, after getting some very kind help from Jake, I found out that in my /usr/local directory were a number of failed MySQL installs that were preventing it from running. I simply cleared out every install, re-downloaded the latest MySQL binary and within minutes finally had my basic program from a tutorial, interestingly enough by Apple, up and running!
I played around and tinkered for a little while after this, and maybe it’s just my lack of understanding of the Model-View-Controller architecture, but it’s just not something I could see myself learning. In fact, as much as I get bashed for it, hell, I love coding basic webapps in Perl. When it comes to simply querying and inserting into a database, it gets the job done! 
