Archive for December, 2008

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What I Want For Christmas

Posted by wolrah
December 25, 2008

I’m not the first to post this today, but it’s cer­tainly worth the read. The fol­low­ing is from Robert Ingersoll’s “What I Want For Christ­mas.”
If I had the power to pro­duce exactly what I want for next Christ­mas, I would have all the kings and emper­ors resign and allow the peo­ple to gov­ern them­selves.
I […]

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This guy actually expects to rent this place?

Posted by wolrah
December 23, 2008

I hon­estly can barely believe what I’m read­ing when I go through this ad. The list of restric­tions reads like a prison.
All the ten­ants I inter­view aren’t good enough via Friendly Atheist

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A few more tweaks

Posted by wolrah
December 16, 2008

Fixed the pretty URLs and RSS feed (blasted mod_rewrite), added Gra­vatar sup­port, a tag cloud, and a down­load sys­tem that I may or may not ever use.

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Wordpress 2.7 Upgrade Complete

Posted by wolrah
December 11, 2008

The Sub­ver­sion install/upgrade method wins again, bump­ing up to 2.7 was a sin­gle com­mand while logged in as www-data on my server and then accesing wp-admin/upgrade.php

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Happy 75th, legal booze!

Posted by wolrah
December 5, 2008

Today is the 75th anniver­sary of the repeal of Pro­hi­bi­tion.  As a fan of alco­hol in all its forms, I fig­ured I’d write up a bit of his­tory and my thoughts on the lessons of Pro­hi­bi­tion.
The roots of Pro­hi­bi­tion can be traced to the mid-1800s when cer­tain Chris­t­ian groups, par­tic­u­larly Methodists and later Bap­tists.  Many […]