Yes, my mom has started a blog. Surely the end times are near. I’m going to teach her to use WordPress. Wish me luck.
[tags]geek, mother, mothers, mom, moms, blog, blogging[/tags]
Another sign of the apocalypse – my mom’s blog
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Category Archives: Geek
New project with Ruby on Rails
I have decided to start a new programming project in my copious free time (HA!) so I am now learning Ruby On Rails. I have been through two tutorials and it really does look as easy as it seems, especially when compared to J2EE that we all know and love. This should be fun. I can’t share any details on the project yet, but stay tuned.
Cool Product: FunSlides Carpet Skates
Check out these carpet skates over at Sensational Beginnings.
Just like socks on a hardwood floor FunSlides™ give you that same fun-powered-glide on carpet. These Carpet Skates™ are exhilarating and fun while encouraging kids to get up and move. Simply Velcro® the friction-resistant plastic bases over your athletic shoes and go! Toe grips make Funslides™ easier to walk and push off in. FunSlides™ are a safe, soft alternative to skating; great for learning the fundamentals of hockey, the balance skills for skateboarding and coordination for inline skating. Strap them on for an Olympic inspired ice skating performance or find a large area for a carpet hockey competition.
If they truly do perform as well as they make them sound, I want a pair!
[tags]geek, carpet, skates, slide, fun, shoe, shoes[/tags]
Wal-Mart Woman – Hilarious Wal-Mart Song
I just saw this exact music video on the local public access channel. It’s a woman named Sue Fabisch singing “Wal-Mart Woman” off of her album “Music 4 Mommies: Volume 1 – Songs to make you laugh!” and it indeed did make me laugh. It’s funny yet scary. In the song and video, she sings the praises of Wal-mart.
- Full Wal-mart Woman video on YouTube
- clip of Wal-Mart Woman by Sue Fabrisch (MP3)
(via CoralCache so we don’t crash the server) - Music4Mommies.com
[tags]geek, funny, hilarious, musci, video, music video, wal-mart, walmart, parody, mp3[/tags]
WordPress blogging tip – how to survive a LOT of traffic (from BoingBoing or elsewhere)
I could have also called this “The first WordPress plugin you should install when starting a new WordPress blog”.
So, today, I posted a new feature article on Candy Addict called Top 10 Grossest Candies. I hoped it would get some traffic and submitted it to a bunch of popular sites. I got linked from BoingBoing and Fark.com which sent a ton of traffic and this caused my CPU usage on my shared server to go over the limits. So, my possibly-new-readers’ first impression of the site is an error page.
So, I scramble to figure out if I can get the CPU usage down, I call my host, but nothing I do drops it and I still get the error message (it comes and goes). So, my buddy Tom says I need a way to cache the pages and AHA! I search for a WordPress plugin that does caching and I found one. I didn’t know if it would work or not, but I figured it couldn’t hurt since my site was hosed anyway.
Almost as soon as I get it installed, my site is fine. Snappy, responsive, and no CPU quota error messages. Amazing. So, I owe the author of that plugin a few beers, but he is Hispanic and the site is almost all in Spanish (except the plugin page) and I can’t find any contact info. If nothing else, I just want to say thanks!
So, the moral of the story:
INSTALL WP-CACHE IN YOUR WORDPRESS BLOG NOW!
Go do it now – I’ll wait. Install it whether or not you expect to ever get a bunch of traffic. You never know when something you write will spread across the internet like wildfire and you will need/want some caching.
[tags]geek, wp, wordpress, tip, trick, tips, tricks, blog, blogs, blogtips, blogging, cache, caching, boingboing, traffic[/tags]