Residents of Oakland and labyrinth enthusiasts the world over have known for years that there exists a maze just east of San Francisco. This “[tag]MacArthur Maze[/tag]“, as it has come to be known, was designed centuries ago to keep would-be adventurers from discovering the treasure trove of affordable Swedish furniture hidden away by the [tag]Ottoman corsairs[/tag].
One wrong turn within this twisted refugee from Escher’s nightmares would lead you to a dank surface street that plunges straight into the heart of madness. Another, to a dead-end trail that terminates at the den of Bruce, the troll that lurks underneath the Bay Bridge waiting for the day that three goats will try to pass. A day that will never come.
Some of the most harrowing passages lead to KFC, but that’s actually pretty good. I can’t complain about that.
At any rate, some good samaratin recently destroyed a fair chunk of the foul maze, liberating its sub-human denizens from their endless days of orchid-eating and exposing them to the fair light of the sun – which unfortunately proved to be fatal.
Now there’s a lot of talk of rebuilding this collapsed part of the freeway. That’s all well and good, but I propose that we do not build a maze this time. Unless they intend to put a minotaur and/or David Bowie in it. In that case, I’m all for it. But if not, let us consider that mazes rarely make for speedy for efficient transportation.
I just found some sort of spammy site on the internets that includes snippets from this very blog. I feel somewhat inadequate, as this post is far more interesting than anything that I’ve actually written:
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It’s very insightful. For one thing, I don’t want to become [tag]Terri Shiavo[/tag]. And I’m fascinated by the greatness of the [tag]circus[/tag] pre [tag]Atkins[/tag] pro protein diet. Does it consist entirely of circus peanuts? Does it include screenings of [tag]Monsters Inc.[/tag]? And how is [tag]Bach[/tag]’s harpsichord involved?
How indeed.
This gibberish raises more questions than it answers! I really wish I had thought of it.
I just upgraded from [tag]wordpress[/tag] 2.1 to 2.1.3. Now there’s some strange white space at the top of the page above the header. Maybe it was always there, but I don’t remember it. I’m not web savvy enough to guess at what may have changed. I didn’t do anything to the [tag]K2[/tag] theme, and I thought that was what drove the look of everything.
Anyway, I’m going to poke around and see if there’s anything I can do about it. But I’m not totally convinced that it’s even worth trying to change.
[Update - It looks like the white space is on the K2 official site too. It must just be a part of the theme. My quick investigation did prompt me to upgrade to K2 9.5. So all's well that ends well.]
I just went through the relatively painless process of upgrading to WordPress 2.1.
For the most part, everything went fine. But one of my plugins, SimpleTags, stopped working. That left me with unsightly code embedded in some of the entries.
A cursory search of the interent didn’t provide an easy solution, so I found two other plugins that do pretty much the same thing, Ultimate Tag Warrior and SimpleTagsPlus. I hoped that one of them would do the trick.
Ultimate Tag Warrior imported all of my embedded tags, which is nice. But, it didn’t clean up any of the code. Alas. It seems like a good plugin. Though it might be overkill for the simple tagging that I do.
SimpleTagsPlus came to the rescue and by reactivating the embedded tags and hiding the embedded code. Hooray. In addition, it lets me tag to del.icio.us or Flickr, in the unlikely event that I feel like doing so. To celebrate, I’m going to tag some stuff right now!
[tags]Wordpress 2.1, SimpleTags, SimpleTagsPlus, Ultimate Tag Warrior, Embedded Tags[/tags]
Migration! I was loving RapidWeaver’s simplicity, but I couldn’t think of an easy way to fix the Internet Explorer problem. It turns out my webhost (dreamhost) offers a free WordPress install.
It was pretty easy to copy over all of my old entries from an RSS file. So now I expect I’ll be learning the ins and outs of WordPress for awhile before the site is really functional again.
Hooray for the internets!
Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!
[tags]WordPress, RapidWeaver, Internet Explorer, Dreamhost[/tags]
Woe woe woe. It seems that this site doesn’t play nice with Internet Explorer. It’s fine on both Safari and Firefox though. I’m debating what to do about that.
I suspect that the culprit may be the new Amazon scripts… but I’m not certain. I could find out easily enough, but right now I can’t be bothered.
You’ll notice a bunch of Amazon links popping up. Here’s why…
One of my Christmas gifts was the MacHeist bundle thing. It included the excellent RapidWeaver app, which I’m using to bang this site out. Another app was Delicious Library.
Delicious Library makes it a joy to scan and sort pretty much everything that you own into a comprehensive media database. You can use a webcam to scan the barcode on a game, movie, CD, book, or whatever. The app instantly retrieves all the relevant information about that product from the Amazon database. It then creates an image of the item and places it on a virtual shelf.
It may not sound all that exciting, but it’s remarkably fun.
Anyway, I was planning on using Delicious Library not only to organize my stuff, but also to prompt me to write about books, movies, and games on here. As I was writing the Karl Pilkington review, I went to create a link to Amazon.com, but then I remembered the affiliate program that Amazon has. Basically, if someone buys something through one of your links, you get a small percentage of the sale. So I signed up for that.
My thinking is, If I’m talking about something in a blog post and you want to buy it, cool – there it is. For those that aren’t interested, I’ll try to keep the links as unobtrusive as possible. That sounds reasonable, right?
[tag]Amazon Affiliate, MacHeist, Delicious Library, Karl Pilkington[/tag]
Residents of Oakland and labyrinth enthusiasts the world over have known for years that there exists a maze just east of San Francisco. This “[tag]MacArthur Maze[/tag]“, as it has come to be known, was designed centuries ago to keep would-be adventurers from discovering the treasure trove of affordable Swedish furniture hidden away by the [tag]Ottoman corsairs[/tag]. 
I just went through the relatively painless process of