Talk Like a Pirate Day is Tomorrow
Will ye be ready to talk like a pirate?
September 19th is Talk Like a Pirate Day!
Archive for 2006
Subscribe to Comments Upgraded to 2.0.7: Not
Subscribe to Comments Upgraded to 2.0.7.
Update: Oop. Subscribe to Comments 2.0.7 is broken. I’ve disabled the feature til I can get it working again.
Update: I rolled back to a previous version of Subscribe to Comments because WP 1.5 doesn’t support… I forget.. something or another. And I’m not upgrading to 2.0 for a while.
Investments I’m happy with
How should I invest my money? Here is what I’ve got right now. Could I do better? I prefer to monitor my investments a few times per month.
Key
L long term investment (I’ll check on this every couple months and reconsider my investment)
L+ I highly regard this long term investment (I’ll leave my money here for a long time and not think about it)
S short term investment (I watch it every few weeks and might get out if there is a dramatic change)
S+ I highly regard this short term investment (I think I have a ‘pick’ here)
S+ Paypal Money Market – Currently earning 5.03%. Not FDIC Insured. Money markets very rarely lose more than 3% a year (making it a pretty safe, if low interest investment)
L+ BRK.B Berkshire Hathaway has dramatically outperformed the S&P 500 consistantly for 40 years, earning an average of 20% interest/year vs the S&P’s 10%
S JDSU – JDS Uniphase – makes very high bandwidth data transmission gear and other things.
L STZ – Constellation Brands – large worldwide wine, beer and liquor producer
S+ UARM – Under Armour – sports apparel maker. They are getting big fast and are in the process of getting into thousands of shopping malls in America. Be warned that apparel makers often have very tight sales margins and don’t usually do spectacularly
L NFLX – Netflix – They do DVD’s by mail better than anyone else. Walmart hasn’t done well against them in the market, which says a lot
L UPS – UPS – shipping stuff for the new mail order universe
L FDX – Fedex – shipping stuff for the new mail order universe. I’ve been told that I should only invest in one parcel company and that should be Fedex. That sounds shortsighted to me.
L TXT – Textron – they make golf carts, helicopters, small planes and lots in between
L+ TREMX – T. Rowe Price Emerging Europe & Mediterranean Fund – a mutual fund that has done well in the long term comprised of smaller European and Mediterranean companies.
L FLR – Flour Corporation – a competitor to Halliburton.
L ESLR – solar panel manufacturer
L BTU – Peabody Energy – coal mining company
L DNA – Genentech – a large Biotech company
L GILD – Gilead Sciences – They make a “one a day” tablet for AIDS patients instead of the 20 pill regimine they used to have to take
L+ MON – Monsanto – makes genetically modified crops
Flying Spaghetti Monster-ism
As part of my religious conversion to Pastafarianism, I have made a t-shirt design.
Buy a t-shirt from me or just steal the image and put it on your skateboard. If you make serious money off it, you are obligated to tithe to both the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster and me. Or his noodly appendage will find you!
Five thousand years ago… When Pirates ruled the earth!
I Made This
My friends and I made this.
The Serpent Mother at Burning Man August 28th-Sept 4th 2006.
Created by the Flaming Lotus Girls.
More photos and such to follow!
WP-Cache upgraded
Dreamhost has been running kinda slow recently. So I took the time to figure out why my wp-cache wasn’t working. WP-Cache is a WordPress plugin that caches database calls so that WordPress runs way faster. Instead of it doing about 60 database queries to fetch all the blog info, it looks in the cache and if the page has already been created, it serves it as a flat text file.
It didn’t work correctly… The first time I’d go to a blog page, I would see a blank page. The second time it worked fine. I found some advice in a comment on the author’s website to fix this problem.
The advice is:
To fix the blank page issue modify wp_cache_ob_end() in wp-cache-phase2.php to use ob_end_flush() instead of ob_end_clean(). Works for a setup using PHP 5.1.2, MySQL 5.0.18, WP 2.01 and WP-Cache 2.0.17.
So I went to the wp-cache-phase2.php file and changed
ob_end_end();
if ($new_cache) {
…
to
ob_end_flush();
if ($new_cache) {
…
It works :-)
I’m running wp-cache 2.0.17 on WordPress 1.5.2
Frank Chu
At the end of the Urban Iditarod race several months ago, I saw Frank Chu standing amid the crowd of tired doggies. I asked him what his sign was all about. I leaned down and he spoke directly into my ear telling me something very much like this:
Four minutes with Frank Chu from Brain-Terminal.com (8MB .mov file)
My head buzzed for 30 minutes. Barry was there with me and can attest to how weird it was.
Bad Movie Night at The Dark Room
Every Sunday night, just a few blocks from my apartment is….
Bad Movie Night at The Dark Room Theater!
Watch the intro. It really captures the spirit! (8MB .wmv file)
Freecycle breeds dogs as reptile food and for the cruel world of dog fights
I got this as a special announcement from Freecycle East Bay
Dear Members,
It has been decided that pet postings will no longer be allowed in our Freecycle community. The most basic reasoning for this decision is that a pet should not be considered “stuff” and pet adoption through Freecycle does not further our goal of reducing landfill waste.
After speaking with representatives from the local humane society and the SPCA, we have decided to not allow pet postings on the East SF Bay Area Freecycle group anymore. Too many animals are given away to people who cannot, or will not, treat these animals as they should be treated. We have been advised against accepting free-to-good home posts for the following reason(s):
Paying an adoption fee discourages people from getting these pets and then when they lose interest, turning them out, giving them away, using them for breeding in puppymills, selling them to laboratories, cosmetic companies, as food for reptiles or even worse, to use to train another dog in the cruel world of dog fights.
Since Freecycle does not permit posts regarding money, they can’t be offered for an adoption fee. Please consider using our local resources for help in finding/placing pets. Links to SPCA and The Humane Society can be found under the files section of Freecycle.If you want to comment or have a question about this policy, please contact us at FreecycleEastSFBayArea-owner@yahoogroups.com. Please do
*not* respond to the entire East SF Bay Area Freecycle list.We thank you all again for sticking with us as we grow and adjust.
It’s all of you fantastic members that make our community such a success!Thanks for your understanding and future compliance,
Your East SF Bay Area Freecycle Moderators Jennifer and Susan
Huh?