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Wal-Mart Woman – Hilarious Wal-Mart Song

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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.

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WordPress blogging tip – how to survive a LOT of traffic (from BoingBoing or elsewhere)

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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.

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Teddy Graham said so!

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Teddy Graham says so

Just saw the above image on a website as a testimonial. Yeah. I believe everything from a guy named “Teddy Graham”. Just struck me as funny. At least he’s not from Bearville.

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Perfect iced tea with the Mr. Coffee Iced Tea Maker

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I have had my Mr. Coffee Iced Tea Maker (MCITM) for about 9 or 10 years and it makes perfect iced tea every time. Someone emailed me today and asked for my recipe so here it is for all. Remember, I have a 9/10 year old MCITM, so this may not apply to the new ones if the size of the pitcher has changed. My MCITM makes 4 quarts.
Steps:

  1. fill the MCITM with water
  2. put about 1 quart (give or take) of HOT water in the pitcher.
  3. add your sugar to the pitcher and stir til dissolved. I used to make really sweet tea with 1 cup of sugar, but I have cut back to about 2/3 cup of sugar. Sweeten to taste.
  4. put 4 regular sized tea bags in the top of the MCITM – I use cheapo/no-name/generic orange pekoe bags and it turns out fine
  5. put the pitcher in place, turn it on, and start brewing
  6. when done brewing, dump the open the valve and let the extra tea into the pitcher. Do NOT squeeze the tea bags to get the extra tea out (that tip from Alton Brown).
  7. add cold water or ice to fill the pitcher
  8. ENJOY!

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