Archive for January, 2010
Celerra fun…
by Jesse on Jan.25, 2010, under General
Just a bit of Celerra fun.
The content on this site is on a Celerra NS500 back-end. It’s protected in a show of great trust and support by nothing but Celerra SnapSure. (30 daily checkpoints)
In the six or so months I’ve been running this there are now more than two dozen sites here, including this one.
Of all of them, the first person to actually need the SnapSure backup was…
…
Drum roll please.
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Me.
(As if you didn’t see that coming)
I “somehow” managed to clobber the header.php file which resulted in this blog turning a bright shade of nothing but white for a few minutes. luckily, it was *THAT* simple to type
cp .ckpt/<datestamp>/header.php ./header.php
and the problem was instantly solved.
Thanks EMC. <grin>
A Monday Thought -
by Jesse on Jan.11, 2010, under Goofy
Isaac Newton was a genius. That’s undisputed. He was also wrong.
It’s important to note that while Newton was on the right track with gravity, his logic was fundamentally flawed and as a result his theory and understanding were 100% wrong.
The flaw in newtonian physics lies in assuming that objects are attracted to each other, while in truth the fact of the matter is that matter bends space itself, the appearance of gravity is nothing but smaller objects moving within space that is bent by larger ones.
Imagine a trampoline with a bowling ball in the center of it. The trampoline represents space, the bowling ball represents, for the sake of argument, the sun.
Roll a tennis ball around the bowling ball and you get a 2D approximation of why/how orbital mechanics works. The bowling ball isn’t pulling the tennis ball into a semi-round orbit, but the surface the tennis ball is travelling on is curved, so the ball moves with the curve.
Matter tells space how to bend, space tells matter how to move.
Next week I’ll explain time.
#justsaying
Yes, I’m that kind of geek. 
What can I say, it’s been a while.
