Ideas, and reference material I find useful
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PS3 YouTube App – unable to contact youtube fix
I was getting “Unable to contact YouTube”. I believe my current version as of writing is 1.0.4. This is how I fixed it. I change the DNS settings on the PS3, to point to 8.8.4.4, and 8.8.8.8 (google’s DNS servers). After this change, the youtube app worked just fine. I gave my PS3 a static…
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Magento Customer Segments vs Customer Groups
magento customer segments groups segment group
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Magento customer segment by past purchase history
I wanted to fulfil the following use case: Create a customer segment based on past purchase history. If a user has purchased SKU-X, they are to belong to a given customer segment. The problem was, I could not remember why the SKU was not listed in the drop downs while adding a condition in the…
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Peacock Lumber, new project.
Just came form Peacock Lumber, in Oshawa. Great friendly bunch. Really helpful, and willing to help. I would recommend them to anyone needing lumber/wood supplies. Bought some 3/8″ baltic plywood… secret as to what I’m making for now. 🙂
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What I intend on writing about in the near future
note to self, write about the following: magento objects. Specifically product and customer objects magento optimization. titanium php development.
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Windows 7, links not working
If you get an error message like: “this operation has been canceled due to restrictions in effect on this computer” Culprit is google chrome. uninstall google chrome, through it’s uninstaller, not the windows uninstaller reinstall chrome restart any application that is still giving you a problem. Such as outlook. Drop a line, if this helped.
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Inbox zero, years later…
It’s been over three years now, and inbox zero is still happening. I’m throwing everything into an archive folder, for each year’s quarter seems to be working well. Does it give me more productivity? In a single word, yes.
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Bad Restaurants in Toronto, boycotting one, and can't use the other.
Mama’s pizza, terrible service, never go there. Swiss chalet online ordering system doesn’t seem to work at all.
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pidgin.im msn protocol alternative: msn-pecan [update #2]
Okay, Been working with pidgin w/msn-pecan on ubuntu 10.04. New problem, pecan doesn’t crash pidgin anymore, however I am logged out after I’ve been away from my computer a little bit. As in, when the screen saver kicks in, pecan logs me out or can’t maintain a connection. Doesn’t seem to happen in windows 7.…
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pidgin.im msn protocol alternative: msn-pecan [update]
Discovered that is crashes a lot, on ubuntu. Pretty stable (haven’t noticed it crashed yet) on windows. Verdict thus far: good on windows. Horrible on ubuntu.