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New Beer Promotion! Win Money!

If you haven’t already noticed, there is a link below each post asking for you, my faithful readers, to buy me a beer. I’m going to step this up a notch and turn it into a contest where you can win money! Who doesn’t like free money?! Here are the rules: 1) Buy me a […]

WordPress Blues

It looks as though my scheduled posts never made it to the homepage while I was gone. I will be reposting them soon…

The most interesting thing I’ve read all month…

Here’s the story of how scientists unlocked the secrets of the worst natural disaster in the history of the West African nation of Cameroon… and what they’re doing to try and stop it from happening again. (More below the break) On the morning of August 22, 1986, a man hopped onto his bicycle and began […]

WordPress 2.2, not impressed

After updating this site to WordPress 2.2 I notice all kinds of little quirks, like when in the dashboard and I go to the manage link, no posts are listed (but the pages are…) Tons of plugins don’t work with the latest release and half of the time when I make a change or add […]

Performancing Needs to Link More

I just read an article over at Performancing.com referencing Netscape over Digg. I got through their reasoning and was ready to surf over to Netscape and check out their offering and how it compares to Digg. I scrolled back up through the post to look for a link. Nope. Nowhere. In fact there was not […]

WordPress 2.2 – Plugin Problems

Well I got this blog updated to WordPress 2.2 I’m not happy. Trying the upgrade the other day broke some things after I reverted back so I tried it again, this time disabling plugins before I did. Now it went as expected. What didn’t though was the re-enabling of plugins. Two plugins that I really […]

WordPress 2.2 released, still waiting

Well, I see WordPress 2.2 was released today and I went to upgrade which has always been a simple task. Not today. Put all the files over and ran the upgrade script to be met with a blank html page. I was able to update some other sites but not this one. I was able […]

WordPress Export/Import

This is an open call to Matt and his team on how to resolve this export/import problem that many users are facing as indicated in this thread. I’ve tried to export my blog and import it to my own install many times over the last few months, trying any method I can find in the […]

Unbelieveable

Pueblo police say a 23-year-old woman faces felony charges on suspicion she traded her five-month-old son for cash and to make a payment on a car. Police Sergeant Brett Wilson says the department was notified of the alleged baby swap yesterday morning. Within hours, they had mother Nicole Uribe behind bars and the baby safely […]

Rocket Scientist Cheerleader?

Summer Williams is a Houston Texans cheerleader. She’s also a rocket scientist. Technorati Tags: cheerleader, scientist