Max Payne Movie Trailer

Max Payne the Movie should really be good as the game is.

Wordpress Redirect Loop and Flickr Photo Album Plugin

A redirect is when a page you have requested has moved and it automatically sends you to where it has moved.

A redirect loops happens when your page is redirecting to itself.

Wordpress has a share of problems with redirect loops and this one just suffered from one. I have looked up a solution and hopefully it would work for you.

Permalinks are search engine friendly, that’s why it is a good idea to use them. Your address such as my initially frustrating Wordpress redirect loop post here has the url:

http://neil.lolin.net/2008/07/09/my-photos-pages-is-redirecting-endlessly

When permalinks go bad, they give you a “page not found”, a page cannot load, or redirect loop problem.

This tackles TantanNoodles Flickr Photo Album plugin for Wordpress and it’s horror of redirect looping.

This wonderful photo is from Kurafire.

Solution:

Add a trailing slash at the end of the permalink.

When you log in to your Wordpress Dashboard, go to settings - permalinks and make sure your structure has an ending “/” to it. For example:

/%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/

NOT

/%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%

Save changes.

My Wordpress has a rather strange problem. After saving, I browse through the other tabs in the Wordpress Dashboard like Write, Manage or whatever. Then I go back to
settings - permalinks and find my ending trailing slash is GONE!

So again, this defeats the purpose of keeping the trailing slash at the end. I do not know if this is bug or mine is an .htaccess problem or whatever. The point is you need the trailing slash at the end in order for the Flickr Photo Album to work properly.

2 Solutions:

1st solution:

If you have access to your Wordpress dB via phpmyadmin in your server’s control panel, search for “postname” and you’ll find the table where your permalink structure is in. Simply edit that entry and add the trailing slash at end.

Note that this will again disappear if you browse through the permalink settings page of you Wordpress dashboard again!

2nd solution: (better solution)

Install the Meta Robots Wordpress Plugin and enable “Enforce a trailing slash on all category and tag URL’s“. This will force your menu links to have the trailing slash at the end if your permalinks structure doesn’t have it.

I use this one for my photos section to solve the Wordpress redirect loop I have experienced last night.

While it doesn’t solve the mystery of my disappearing trailing slash, it still does the job.

My Photos pages is redirecting endlessly…

And I don’t have any idea why…

For now my flickr gallery is down…

boohoo!!!!

=(

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Somethingawful.com is a site that specializes on boredom, sarcasm, wit, and everything devilishly funny.

Every Friday, the site has what it calls “Photoshop Phriday” and it’s really worth waiting for. I found this section particularly funny, so look at the rest of their entry on their site.

Look at the rest of this gallery.

Flash SEO - flash is now searchable

Quoting some SEO’s and bloggers…

“If you’re not in google, you do not exist…”

Sounds harsh, but it is true. Most SEO experts would say that “Flash is Evil” because it doesn’t bring your site to the results of search engines. Until now.

Erick Schonfeld of Techcrunch writes:

Adobe has created a special Flash player for the search engines that acts like a virtual user going through each application. It actually goes through the runtime of each Flash application and translates it into something the search engines can understand. So all of those fancy interactive Flash Websites and other rich Internet applications that have been invisible to search engines, can now be seen by them.

Turner acknowledges that this invisibility so far “has been a big problem for those developing rich applications.” After all, it doesn’t matter how pretty your Website is if nobody can find it. Flash applications and Websites (many ironically created by ad agencies) have not been able to take advantage of any of the search-engine juice that so many online ad campaigns depend upon. This should be seen as part of Adobe’s larger efforts to remove any remaining restrictions associated with Flash (in April, for instance, it opened up the Flash runtime as part of its the Open Screen Project).

So there you have it. If you’re a web designer and you’re into flash sites, you can now be indexed and searched.Now, just think about the design and time you have to put in.

Arden Mopera Gallery in Trip Art Tight

Arden Mopera approached me yesterday in FCF thanking me for posting his works over my site. I’m glad and honored that it helped him somehow.

I didn’t expect my site would be number 1 once you search for his name on Google.

More blessings to you Arden and just continue to do what you do best.

The Trip Art Tight Gallery show has ended, but I’m sure his works are still available if you contact him. Otherwise, leave a comment in this post.

Korg nanoKEY, nanoKONTROL, nanoPAD : the epitome of coolness

This has got to be one of the coolest things for keyboardist who’d like to have a laptop as their Digital Audio Workstation.  It can be wonderfully paired with your UMPC! It’s all midi powered.

It’s the Korg Nano series.

• nanoKEY: 25 keys, transmitting either as MIDI notes or (via a separate mode) Control Change (CC)  messages. Octave shift (natch). Pitch, modulation. And it’s supposed to be velocity-sensitive, too, although we’ll have to get our hands on one to see how sensitive it is.
• nanoPAD: 12 pads, supposedly inheriting the terrific sensitivity and feel of the padKONTROL, which is pretty much the favorite pad controller round these parts. Chord Trigger. Control Change mode (as with nanoKEY). There’s even an X/Y touch pad with roll and flam mode, favorite features of the padKONTROL.
• nanoKONTROL: 9 faders, 9 knobs, 18 switches, transport controls. (No, really.) MIDI notes, 168 CC messages. There are even attack and decay times for the switches, allowing them to work as faders, filter controls, effects settings, and the like – something I’d love to see on other (full-sized) controllers.

It’s VERY desirable. It’s gear lust for me again.

Bad news is no price yet, so we wait.

American Idol winner is David Cook

source: http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/story.html?id=530340

American Idol winner. David vs David, And David won, David lost. But they’re both great. I didn’t see them and I’m not much of a fan. But it’s blog worthy.

My Flickr Page

I finally found a plugin that integrates my Flickr account and my site running on Wordpress. It’s a nice and straightforward plugin that allows my photos from flickr to be displayed here as an album. So there, cheers!

View my photos here.

This is a glimpse of one of the guitar stores in Bangkok, Thailand. For less than 5,000php, you can get yourself a guitar that’s worth 10,000php here.

Sucks? That isn’t the end of it.

Anyway, there exists 2 galleries here and I will be maintaining my flickr one and transferring everything else there soon. For now, both Gallery and Photos will exist.

Youtube is Down!

Youtube is down…

I can’t even ping it.

Cannot find “http://www.youtube.com/”