Overnight, there was quite a bit of Twitter discussion about the history of @alohaarleen. Arleen’s a prolific tweeter (too walaau mouth for me) with 80,000 followers who crossed a few too many people here on the island. Then the past started coming out. High drama in Twitterlulu!
Obviously a Mac OS X Snow Leopard can cry. Just don’t upgrade to iTunes 9 along with the accompanying music library update, gap analysis, and genius matching and update your iPhone to 3.1 and redeem an iTunes gift card and do a Time Machine backup all on a variety of drives. You too can make a Snow Leopard cry.
For the special occasion of September 9, 2009 aka 9/9/09, online shirt purveyor Threadless is selling their custom designed shirts for $9. It’s a great time to load up on some fun tees.
I placed my very first order with Threadless after seeing a few catchy designs like this pulpy one.
FYI, shipping to Hawaii for three shirts was ~$8. Also, supposedly the American Apparel-made shirts shrink less than the Threadless branded shirts.
I couldn’t believe it and had to watch for a bit as our new postal carrier went off roading to deliver mail in the neighborhood. Instead of stopping his mail truck and getting out to make his deliveries, he would drive on curbs, squeeze by brushes, and do anything so he didn’t have to get out. What a trip!
Bacon is the ultimate flavor right? It’s even good enough to make into a cookie! And serve them for dinner as Pulp reader Jessica did this past weekend.
Described as “pretty good! Sweet and savory. And they’re gluten-free.” Seems like something you have to try at least once.
Some toys from childhood that I dug up.
Star Destroyer from Star Wars. Die cast metal, don’t make’em like that anymore.
Twiki from Buck Rogers. He even has Dr. Theopolis with him.
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.
A stop at Price Busters brings these gems. Yes, the Kailua location reopened across the street from its original location.
Snickers Fudge (that tastes about the same as regular Snickers)
Jumbo remote control. This was seriously large.
Pill box that was just as large as the remote control. Fits in your pocket?! I don’t think so.
Coconut M&Ms are still available.
Hmmm, does YOURLS tweet blog posts coming from Ecto. Seems like not, this post is coming from the WordPress admin interface.
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.
Changing YOURLS setting from remote to local. Does this make the difference?