Small city boy, big city dreams
Archive for May, 2010
Hola from Costa Rica
Finally, my first couple of days in Costa Rica are here
The traveling took a grand total of 32 hours and I was exhausted when I got here, but very glad that I did. I didn’t get any trouble at any of the customs posts or passport controls. It turned out that getting out of South Africa was the hardest part of the trip.
I managed to get some sleep on the flight to Amsterdam – it was a nice spacious Boeing so I had lots of space to stretch out. The flight to Panama was a little less comfortable, but only because the plane was smaller. Luckily I didn’t have to share a row with anyone, which helped. The flight was delayed by about half a hour because the power in the place went out, which was creepy, but we got there with no issues.
The delayed departure from Amsterdam meant that we got to Panama late, so I literally had to get off the plane and run to the next terminal, which was NOT close. There were two of us transiting to Costa, and our names where already being called over the intercom (pronounced very strangely, but called none the less).
The hop to Costa Rica was less than an hour and the jet was tiny,so we had a bit of turbulence, but not too scary. What was scary was getting to Costa Rica and not seeing my bag on the luggage lottery. As it turns out, my luggage didn’t run as fast as I, so it missed the flight from Panama to Costa Rica. Three hours of waiting and sitting on a hard floor later, it did arrive though and I was finally allowed in to the country.
I have a nice enough apartment for the first two weeks, but I’m going hunting early next week. Sleeping is still an issue, I haven’t slept for more than 3 hours yet, my body’s still getting used to the time difference, which is why I’ve been up surfing the net since 3am local time. I’m going to be knackered later!
I hope that things are cool in not-so-sunny SA.
An old set I found
while I was cleaning up my laptop.
01 Autumn Evening Breeze -Sound Providers
02 Weapon Of Choice – FatBoy Slim
03 Chali Tuna Coming Thru – DJ Numark
04 Riders On The Storm – Snoop Dogg and The Doors
05 This Ain’t a Scene – Fall Out Boy
06 RE Definition – Black Star
07 Bug Powder Dust -Bomb The Bass
It’s quite a mixed bag and I remember that it was fun putting it together at the time. It reminds me of my friend Kath 
HTTP error when uploading files in WordPress
While working a new version of a site, I was encountering HTTP errors while uploading images. In order to resolve the problem, I added the following line to my .htaccess file and viola, problem solved
AddType x-mapp-php5 .php
If you’re curious, I found the solution here
http://jonrwilson.com/blog/2009/12/wordpress-http-error-crunching-htaccess/
WordPress Hassles with file size uploads
For the last week or so I’ve been working on the beta version of the new StereoType Records website, but I’ve been hitting file size limitations at every turn.
After a number of calls to my host I decided that I was going to try and fix it myself. One of the error messages I received was while importing data from the current install:
“File upload failed. This error could also be caused by uploads being disabled in your php.ini or by post_max_size being defined as smaller than upload_max_filesize in php.ini.”
After about an hour’s diggin and sifting, I cam across a php.ini ‘template’ that seems to fit my needs, and most importantly, it resolved my file permissions and upload limit issue.
Here is the code: (found here)
register_globals = off
allow_url_fopen = off
expose_php = Off
max_input_time = 600
variables_order = “EGPCS”
extension_dir = ./
upload_tmp_dir = /tmp
precision = 12
memory_limit = 64M
post_max_size = 64M
file_uploads = On
upload_max_filesize = 64M
Man am I glad that’s over. Now, on to the next hiccup we go…
