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Entries for July, 2008

Permalink Problems After WordPress Upgrade?

If you upgraded to the latest version of WordPress (2.6) and found that your permalinks no longer work (for anything other than default), I found a hack to get it all working again. Visit Kevin’s site for details: How to Fix Permalinks in WordPress When All Else Fails

What We Say Without Words – washingtonpost.com

What We Say Without Words – washingtonpost.com. Interesting Slideshow that I would think most people already would know if they really thought about it…

Why We Shouldn’t Use FTP Anymore

Steven Frank offers a few reasons why we should not be using FTP anymore. Kind of odd considering what he does for a living! Unless tunneled over a secure socket, FTP is 100% insecure. Your password, and the contents of all of your files are sent in the clear, free to be examined or captured […]

Which Billionaire Are You?

What would you do with your money?

Blog Comments – Now Moderated!

This is more of an FYI than anything, but if you comment on this blog for the time being (maybe permanently), you will notice that your comments will no longer go live after you submit them. I had to turn on comment moderation due to one smart ass that kept launching personal attacks on the […]

How We Have Failed Our Youth

While browsing our local “free classified ads” site today, I noticed the following: If you can’t read the text, it is as follows: I charge from 10$-20$ each time. It depends on the lawn size. I would have to use your mower and gas because my mower sucks. Professionalism at it’s finest!

This Bud’s For You, InBev?!

In a surprising move today, Anheuser-Busch decided to sell to European competitor, InBev. Very interesting, almost disturbing how an American icon would sell out so quickly. Team this up with news this weekend that the government is stepping in to help out Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and the economy seems to be stumbling more […]

Two Movie Reviews

I finally got to use my Netflix subscription the other day and watch a couple of movies that have been sitting on the counter for the last couple of months. The first was Sin City. I know it’s old already, but it was pretty good. If you liked Crash, you will like Sin City. The […]

WalMart Wildfire

This is amazing: http://projects.flowingdata.com/walmart/ BTW: this is the 800th post on this blog…

Where the Poor Get Richer

A few North Dakotan’s are finding themselves with a lot more money in the bank lately thanks to recent oil booms in North Dakota. In fact many have become what they refer to as “overnight millionaires”, not that you would know it by how they dress or what they drive. We live in a pretty […]