I accidentally copied and pasted my tracking number to the actual google search field (I think I got antsy because FedEx kept on screwing up… more on this later), and look:
Oh, and look… Now, if I check the email through GMail, it checks the tracking numbers for me!
Nice little features that makes me love Google more… but nice little features that makes me wonder how far they’re willing to go…
I’ve pretty much given up on this project (Going to be doing the AJAX calls for Google Search… definitely going to be posting another happy post later…). Thinking through Marc’s Question/Comment of why I didn’t use the SOAP libraries that PHP came with, I decided to change a single line in the PHP code to make things work.
From:
$soapclient = new Soap_Client('http://api.google.com/search/beta2');
To:
$soapclient = new SoapClient('http://api.google.com/search/beta2');
Notice the difference? I guess there really wasn’t a reason to even look at NuSOAP, but I really didn’t know too much SOAP back then, and didn’t even know that there was a native PHP library for it.
Now the problem is this error that I keep getting, regardless of using the core PHP implementation of SOAP or NuSOAP:
Fatal error: Uncaught SoapFault exception: [WSDL] SOAP-ERROR: Parsing WSDL: Couldn’t find in ‘http://api.google.com/search/beta2′ in /Users/jk/Sites/google/index.php:32 Stack trace: #0 /Users/jk/Sites/google/index.php(32): SoapClient->SoapClient(’http://api.goog…’) #1 {main} thrown in /Users/jk/Sites/google/index.php on line 32
If anyone has any insight on what the heck this is talking about, do leave me some love. From this point on, if this problem does get fixed, it’ll just purely be for fun, and not for an actual project. I mean, the Google API Key that I have for this project isn’t even mine anyway: It’s from a co-worker.
Lent commitment included nothing about games… crap. Games stopped “playing” (Pun! YES! BINGO!) any discernible role in my life maybe a year ago, so I guess I kinda left them out.
Okay, let me vent a little bit, before I go back and start to cry, looking at my code.
Right now, I feel like my code is shooting me in the face. With an AWP. (Oh, I miss those days… sorta kinda… all those wasted hours on a silly game from the 90s…) I have no weapons to speak of. (Do I get points for really bad metaphors, too?) I’m having one of the hardest times figuring out why my “include” and “require” aren’t doing as they’re supposed to be.
Sidenote: Currently working on: Google SOAP calls to customize the Google search page. All I have to do is include NuSOAP. What the heck is going on? (And like half the links to the sourceforge for NuSOAP is down for some random reason…)
Now… Wasn’t That Roundabout
Okay, back to the point of the post.
WASD: the four buttons needed for any first person shooter game
ASDF: just another ridiculous computer nerd “joke”… I love typing “asdf”…
FPS: first person shooter
Add the three together to get: wasdfps. I have no idea why this is funny. In about 30 seconds, I’m going to look back and say, “who wrote this garbage?”.
Regardless, this sucker’s copyrighted JK 2007 style.
I asked myself, since all I do on YouTube is waste time, why don’t I look up some really good TV shows that I missed… you know, the ones that will actually help me with the goals I want to achieve in life. (Becoming a Korean Pop star is not one of those goals. I’ll just write off all those Korean Music Videos and Variety Shows off as a means to my goal to become a Korean media mogul…)
The first time I saw Mr. Deutsch’s show was when he was talking with Howard Schultz, founder and CEO of Starbuck’s. Then I saw him on with Bill Gates, Paul Mitchell…. I was hooked.
One of those really motivating videos.
Summary: It’s not what their selling… it’s about the persistence. Don’t ever stop trying. Can’t see the turns at the starting line. Just start running. You’ll get somewhere. Preparation meets opportunity.
For me, I know for a fact what I’ll be doing is going to have to do with the web. I’m not sure why I’m going to start this race with that kind of mindset, but it makes the most sense for me.
However, I need to continue to understand that the web is only the platform. I can choose to sell whatever I want, whether it be a physical product or a service; be it B2B or a consumer-based market; be it advertising-supported or tiered fee-based monetization strategy. This is why this stage of beginning to understand the nature of the web will help me as I start this race.
And with that, I’m all motivated out. Back to reality.
Side note: Why is YouTube out of sync while Google Video isn’t? It’s those l33t hack monkeys at Google… I get so frustrated when I see audio out of sync with the video… someone should program something to fix that timing… but who…?
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