In the process of working on a little side project (which shall be revealed shortly!) I found a need to set a cookie. I don’t think I’ve ever had to do it before, but it seemed simple enough. Until it didn’t work. Off to Google! There I found this tip from Scratch99.com on properly setting the site path, which doesn’t appear to work with WordPress 3.0.4 (or I may just be an idiot). I was a bit disappointed, but it gave me a good excuse to go spelunking through the core.
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I’m a pretty restless sleeper, especially when it’s quiet, so I usually end up putting on some kind of electronic music. That keeps me from waking up every few minutes, but never lets me get into good, solid sleep.
Rainstorms give me the best sleep ever. No, really. I sleep like a goddamn baby during rain storms. I needed some extra help getting to sleep last night, and began searching for rain storm MP3s. (And, no, this is not an advertisement for anything, although a link will follow shortly). To make a long story short, I found this one, downloaded it, spent 15 minutes listening peacefully, then woke up 8 hours later. It was a truly beautiful event.
You’ll need to do some kind of eMail list sign-up, but the 60 minutes of loopable relaxation is well worth it.
I saw this posted on one of my favorite news groups today and had to share. Dr. Briffa gives his take on the epidemiologically reported health benefits of vegetarian diets. The best part, that underlies the point, is here.
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My daughter blithely handed this to me today. Usually, we get these little notes home for everything shy of a cold. There’s been a confirmed case of step/swine flu/chicken pox/stomach flu. Lots of bullshit that I’m not really worried about because of modern medicine and my kids’ lethally efficient immune system. This one gave me pause, though.
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My lovely childhood friend Sweet Tater posted the news that 34,000 pounds of so-called “organic” ground beef was recalled. Sweet Tater is a vegetarian – which I forgive her for – but she does offer a pretty good insight into why this happened.
But be aware that factory farming is inherently bad, wretched, terrible, wrong. And even an organic label can’t save such an operation from itself. The mass production of meat is unnatural and, in the end, unhealthy.
As of late, I’ve become fully engulfed in nutrition science. No, no, not the silly bullshit the American Medical Association peddles with contributions from the altruistic FDA/USDA. I mean anthropological nutrition, AKA…paleo living.
I was just pondering the other day that Google utterly owns my existence. You may chortle a bit, but I’m not joking. Google has ownership over my passwords, eMail, chat history, contact list, calendar, books, some pictures, documents, phone and…yeah. You get the idea. Read the rest of this entry »
If you run a search for How to Make Cookies, you’ll come back with tens of thousands of results. The first page is, invariably, filled with specific cookie recipes. Oh no, not here, my friends. Here you shall find the top-secret formula for making basic drop cookies. Adjust it as you wish to create sugar cookies, chocolate chip cookies, snickerdoodles…you get the idea.
Oh, WordPress, is there any way in which people can’t break you? I love you dearly, but sometimes, you’re a real pain in the ass.
Without a doubt, the most common reason why your WordPress installation suddenly stopped working is…you tried to change the home page. Yes, that’s it. Although, you probably already knew that, since you’re reading this. Here’s what [probably] happened, here’s what should have happened, and here’s how you fix it. Read the rest of this entry »
In case you missed the title, let me repeat. The fucking cigarettes are fucking radioactive.
This is not some kind of weird, sci-fi, brain-eating-aliens-are-infiltrating-our-economy nut jobbery. There is a measurable amount of polonium 210 in every cigarette sold in the U.S. (except for maybe American Spirit). There is also a measurable amount of lead 210, although I hear it’s not quite as deadly as polonium. Read the rest of this entry »
I'm Becky. I write this blog. From time to time, someone else will write this blog. I like WordPress, hiking and puppies.
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