In celebration of Victoria’s Secret grand opening in Hawaii at Ala Moana, I offer this somewhat disturbing juxtaposition.
Yes, that’s a Victoria’s Secret bag toting The Good Book! Is “Give me sexy” a verse from Psalm?
Some iced Starbucks for now and some VIA for later. Yes, the “instant” ready brew VIA is everywhere!
For a limited time, you can get a subscription to the awesome Inc magazine for only $5. Amazon is now selling an one-year subscription for one Abe Lincoln if you act before October 3.
That’s $45 off the regular subscription price!
Opening a box of Legos from small kid time revealed all kinds of goodies.
Exxon branding
Trees
Part of an astronaut
And the instructions for the astronaut and lunar lander kit
Don’t you hate wasting time? At work, we’ve gotten caught up in fighting a fight that’s really the wrong fight. Whatever we do isn’t right because in reality, we’re not fighting the right fight. But at the same time, those picking the fight aren’t telling all involved what the right fight is, you follow?
Only after several losses can we sorta glean what the real fight/issue is. Only had we known that from the start, we could have been fighting the right fight and not wasting time.
So I got YOURLS working on pulp.ly, and it does work very well as a personal URL shortener. The only sticking point I had was that shortened URLS weren’t tweeted when created with a desktop blogging app such as Ecto. Tweets would go out when blog posts were generated via the WordPress admin interface but not so when published through the WordPress API.
Well, that issue is no longer! Ozh has released a newer version of the YOURLS WordPress plugin that fixes this. Download and install version 1.3 of the plugin and see for yourself that YOURLS is now awesomer.
When you’re hungry, you don’t want any extra fuss or muss. You just want great tasting food, fast and affordable, and that’s what you’ll get at La Isla Burrito.
If you’re in the Keeaumoku area, be sure to check out the newly opened takeout location serving up fresh, homestyle Mexican food. Located in the Sam Sung Plaza at 661 Keeaumoku St. (across from Walmart), La Isla Burrito serves up dishes like burritos, tacos, enchiladas, carnitas, and fajitas. They also offer a breakfast menu featuring chilaquiles, huevos racheros, a breakfast burrito, and huevos con papas y chorizo.
La Isla Burrito opens at 9am on weekdays and closes late on Friday and Saturday. Their hours:
You can place a phone order by calling 947-5263 (9-ISLAND).
We had the Island Chicken Burrito and the huevos con papas y chorizo, and the dishes were served quickly by the friendly staff. The Island Burrito had tender chunks of chicken with fresh salsa and the huevos con papas chorizo was downright tasty.
The location is on the smaller side so don’t expect to bring large parties, but you can always place a phone order ahead of time.
Check out Yelp for La Isla Burrito reviews and leave your own comments.
And just between you and me, the name “La Isla Burrito” reminds me of Madonna’s classic song…
“Tropical the island breeze
All of nature wild and free
This is where I long to be”
La Isla Burrito!
Checked out the Thunderbirds performance today but instead of a closeup visit, we decided to watch from afar at a quieter distance. And something’s not right with my camera. See those black smudges in the center of the pics? Not sure where they’re coming from.
And yes, Threadless.com was represented.
After you’re done reading Catching Fire, how about reading plain, ole “Fire.” Releases October 5, 2009 on Amazon.
I’ve been asked about the Thesis theme for WordPress now and again so here are a few words why I’m a fan of Thesis.
Yup, I am a fan of the Thesis WordPress theme. I was a little apprehensive paying for a WordPress theme since there are good ones freely available. I forget the exact reason why I went with Thesis, but I’m glad I did. I think it was reading through the Thesis docs and user guide that convinced me. Or it might have been the many sites that started using Thesis as well.
Why Thesis? It’s easy. Plain and simple. Many of the common customizations of blogs can be done with some CSS knowledge. With Thesis, you don’t necessarily need to know CSS, even for somewhat complex customizations since they are all configuration items of this theme. What to show, what not to show, how to show it (font, size, etc) are all controllable by Thesis via checkboxes, drop down menus, etc. Thesis has defined styles for notes, alerts, drop caps, and frames around images to make your stuff look good without having to figure out the CSS.
Thesis makes common changes easy to implement. It has dedicated sections for adding scripts in the header and footer. You can change your RSS syndication feed to Feedburner for example. I know these are not hard changes to make, but Thesis puts these common options right in front of your face.
There’s a plugin called Thesis OpenHook that makes placement of items on a blog even easier. Thesis has these defined hooks where you can stick code/text. With OpenHook, it better exposes these defined areas so you can place items exactly. For example, there’s placement for Before Header, After Header, Byline, Before Sidebars, Before Sidebar 1, After Sidebar 1, etc. so you can easily place a Google Adsense ad, images, or anything else you can imagine.
Lastly, the Thesis support forums are actually good. There’s a lot of activity and really helpful people. If you have questions, issues, or want to know how to do it in Thesis, it’s probably covered in the forums already.
Oh yeah, the Thesis creator, @pearsonified, is on Twitter and frequently points out 3rd party mods and changes to Thesis, so you can see how others are using this theme.
I’m sure I missed something describing Thesis, but for me, Thesis is the ONE thing that got me off of Blogger and on to WordPress full time. I was always looking for a solid theme to start Pulpconnection on WordPress, and once I started with Thesis, I got so far so quickly there was no turning back.
First, I need to apologize to Kanye West for poking fun at him. Right after a few Kanye posts, Pulpconnection experienced a service meltdown that I couldn’t repair. No, it wasn’t a storm of traffic that brought this blog down, just a runaway Apache web service. This out-of-control service sucked up all my hosting resources leaving nothing to power the pulp. See the prolonged spike in the red line? Not good.
After some troubleshooting on my own and even after suggestions from “The Genius” Ryan Kanno, I still wasn’t getting anywhere. I was about to file a trouble ticket with Dreamhost when I saw their Live Chat feature. I tried it, and Max responded. I told him my issue, he looked into it, and as a seer of all, Max discovered and repaired my renegade apache service. All in a matter of minutes. Thanks Max!
Max also politely pointed me to a wiki article about WordPress fine tuning, and now I got WordPress Super Cache running to help tame things.
Lessons learned: Dreamhost live chat good. Enable caching for WordPress good. Angering Kanye West bad.
Thanks to Threadless.com, I am nude no more with the arrival of my Threadless shirts from my 9/9/09 order.
Electric pulp shirt.
Tag inside the shirt.
