Monthly Archives: May 2008

My hometown made The Consumerist

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See the Wal-Mart picture in this Consumerist article? That is in my hometown. What a neat find. I was just surfing one of my favorite pages and noticed something familiar about that Wal-Mart. I know they all look the same, but the building’s surroundings were unique.

Neat. Stupid, but neat that we get recognized on a nationally (globally?) recognized consumer activist blog, even if its only one of their “Flickr finds”.

The Consumerist

Flickr Artist’s page

Scrabble Game – 4.23.08

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Another late post. What am I, asleep all the time?

Points This Game

Inanis: 600 | Gac: 589

Games Won

Inanis: 15 Gac: 12

Play of the Game

Play of the game? What’s that? This game was really pretty mundane.

Setting Up Pretty Permalinks In WordPress 2.5.1 and Ubuntu 7

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Cause I’ll forget later

  • Install WordPress
  • Get Shell Access
  • in the blog’s root
    • touch .htaccess
    • sudo chmod 666 .htaccess
    • Edit said .htaccess fle and add the following
      • Options +FollowSymLinks
  • in /etc/apache2/sites-available
    • edit the file called default
    • Line 12 should read AllowOverride All
  • do sudo apache2 -k restart
  • Log into the blog, and set up your Pretty Permalinks desires.

Note To Self: This procedure may be incorrect. You modified so much crap trying to figure it out that you probably Christmas-Tree’d the server…