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Childhood Toys

Some toys from childhood that I dug up.

Star Destroyer from Star Wars. Die cast metal, don’t make’em like that anymore.

Star Destroyer

Twiki from Buck Rogers. He even has Dr. Theopolis with him.

Twiki

About to Pass 200,000 Visits

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Been a long time, but according to my Sitemeter stats, Pulpconnection should be passing the 200,000 visit mark sometime today.

Sorry, no contest or giveaway (not yet anyways) to celebrate this milestone, just sincere thanks for reading and sticking around these past 4 years.

Seen at Price Busters

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A stop at Price Busters brings these gems. Yes, the Kailua location reopened across the street from its original location.

Price Busters Kailua

Snickers Fudge (that tastes about the same as regular Snickers)

Snickers Fudge

Jumbo remote control. This was seriously large.

Jumbo Remote Control

Pill box that was just as large as the remote control. Fits in your pocket?! I don’t think so.

Pill Box

Coconut M&Ms are still available.

Coconut M&Ms

YOURLS Is Mine

Finally! My own URL shortener based on YOURLS is working. While the URL shortener market is already full, why not make a custom vanity URL shortener just for fun? That’s the reason for pulp.ly! Just for fun.

Took some (unneeded) effort to launch pulp.ly, but it was a learning experience. Thanks to @mirthlab for the recommendation and thanks to @ryankanno for the tech translation and guidance.

Here’s a rundown of some of the issues I encountered in case you want to set up YOURLS.

Be sure you can read the instructions.

Don’t necessarily use the latest version of the software. I installed version 1.3RC, instead of the stable 1.2. There was no htaccess file included in 1.3 which caused problems. I thought it was this issue, but it simply was not having an htaccess file that looks like this. Update: as Ozh himself points out, there is an included .htaccess file, but Mac OS X users don’t see (and hence copy) this hidden file.  Use something like TinkerTool or xMod.

Once the YOURLS installation was working, integrating it with its companion WordPress plugin took some guessing. I guessed wrong and specified a remote YOURLS installation. Changing the installation type to local did the trick.

So if everything is indeed working right, this post should be shortened with a pulp.ly link then tweeted.

Font Conflicts From Snow Leopard

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Anyone else experience font conflicts after upgrading to Mac OS X Snow Leopard? I didn’t realize I had issues until trying to read the install instructions for YOURLS. Here’s a screen shot of what it looks for me.

yourls-shot

I was like this must be some developer code or something. But copying and pasting the instructions gives me a readable view:

  1. Unzip the YOURLS archive
  2. Copy includes/config-sample.php to includes/config.php
  3. Open includes/config.php with a raw text editor (like Notepad) and fill in the required settings
  4. Upload the unzipped files to your domain public_html or www folder
  5. Create a new database (see Configuration – you can also use an existing one)
  6. Point your browser to http://yoursite.com/admin/install.php

Opening Fontbook, I have a ton of duplicate fonts being reported. I think that once I resolve all these dupes, things will display normally again.

Wanted: Customized URL Shortener

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My hunt for a customized URL shortener still goes on. I do use bit.ly, su.pr, and to an extent, ginx.com, but I’d like something more customizable that supports my own domain name. Su.pr does support URL shortening with your current domain name (pulpconnection.net), but I want to use a different domain for shortening (ie pulp.ly).

So far, I haven’t been able to find a plugin or service that does this. Su.pr is close but not close enough. The hunt goes on…

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