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Featured on Dwellable
It started with a simple email from Jane from Dwellable.com. What’s Dwellable? That’s what I wondered too, but quickly I learned that Dwellable is a vacation rental service helping you find choice spots in a variety of locales.
To help customers understand their vacation areas better, Dwellable draws upon local bloggers to tell their stories, and that’s where Pulpconnection fits in. Over the years, I’ve documented stuff from around Oahu, exactly what Dwellable is looking for. At least for now, me and Pulpconnection lead Dwellable’s blog leaderboard. Yay!
Here’s the announcement on Twitter.
Dwellable's new #1 Featured Blogger, a local #oahu authority…@geewhy! http://t.co/kyoD7weM #ttot #traveltuesday
— Dwellable (@Dwellable) July 3, 2012
So if you’re hunting for great places for a vacation, be sure to check out what Dwellable has to offer. You can also follow them on Twitter and Facebook and use their iPad app.
Whole Foods Kailua Mixup
If you’re planning on taking your kids to the Whole Foods Market Kailua ice cream making activity, there’s been a mistake. This event was published in the Advertiser’s Saturday paper, but when we called to RSVP, they said the event was an exotic fruit tasting. The WFM Kailua web page describes the event correctly.
This month’s Keiki in the Kitchen explores the wonderful flavors of exotic fruit, courtesy of Frankies Nursery! For keiki ages 3-10. Free; RSVP required. Email sp.kao.marketing to reserve your spot.
The Advertiser’s (premium) web site says:
July 7, 11:30 a.m.: Whole Foods Market Kailua teaches keiki how to make their favorite ice creams.
Hmmm… not sure what happened, but I don’t think I could convince my kids that a rambutan is ice cream. Hopefully, this gets cleared up before the event.
Adding a Subdomain for a CDN
Since I’ll be doing some housecleaning re-associating images with old posts, I might as well head towards a cookieless domain to act as a self hosted CDN. Here’s what I did in Dreamhost.
- Under Manage Domains, I created a subdomain called static.pulpconnection.net. I set the option to remove www from the URL.
- I picked a user to run this subdomain.
- For the Web Directory field, I mapped it to the location of the WordPress uploads home/username/domain/wp-content/uploads
Hope this is right. Now to test…
Ooops. So that the file directory isn’t displayed if you open static.pulpconnection.net in a browser, I added an index.php file to the location that redirects visitors to pulpconnection.net.
Refrigerator Pet Peeve
Along with my running pet peeve, here’s another thing that irritates me. Check out the refrigerator at work.
Why, oh why are there so many insulated lunch bags inside of the refrigerated refrigerator? Um, it is cold inside the refrigerator, so that insulation doesn’t do much inside the refrigerator. I really hate those bags that are big and puffy and take up so much space, but inside the bag is a small flat sandwich or a can of juice. People, can’t you take your food stuff out of these space eaters and only store the necessities inside the refrigerator?
Now, I take the initiative and rearrange the bags so that stuff actually fits. I’ve gently crushed a bag or two that has a plastic container or tupperware inside of them. I have to take a cue from @abaggy and bring in my Igloo cooler and jam it in the refrigerator to make a point.
MobileMe Shutting Down Today
Today’s the end of June which marks the official end of MobileMe. By now, you should have migrated to iCloud if possible, but there’s some stuff that can’t migrate over. And this non-migratable stuff will have an impact on Pulpconnection.
In the early days of pulp, I used Blogger as my blogging platform and .Mac’s iDisk to serve up image and movie files. But iDisk won’t make the transition to iCloud effectively busting majority of images on posts prior to January 2009.
I downloaded the megabytes of images but now have to figure out how to import them easily into the WordPress Media Library. The Grab & Save plugin could work if I had more time to go through each post. Add from Server seems like a better way to import a bulk of files. Regardless, tuning each post one by one is inevitable to re-associate the images unless there’s a plugin to redirect URL paths (at least as a temporary workaround).
I would like to create a static CDN setup – redirecting a subdomain to my media library and using W3 Total Cache to point there. Until then, that’s why older posts will have busted images.
Hot Sun, Hanauma, and a Big Dew
What does the hot sun, looking at fish at Hanauma Bay, and a Mtn Dew have in common? I don’t know, but I’m glad I had this big Dew on hand.
Walking In on Google Street View
Posting this for posterity sakes. Google announced its expanded views of Hawaii within Street View whereupon many local mainstream media covered the announcement. Check out how I “walked in” on KITV’s coverage at the 0:51 mark.
Being on television is almost second nature already! Have you already forgotten about my appearance during the closing of Don Quijote in Kailua?
What’s This Dock Dojobber?
Was given this dojobber but don’t know what it is. It’s like a rubbery lanyard with a iPhone/iPad dock connector on the end. It can’t be a lanyard since it’s kinda short. Could be a tether of some sort for your iPhone, but I wouldn’t risk securing my iPhone (or iPad) solely by the dock. If that breaks, you might as well get a new device.
Oh, and it’s branded from Panya Bakery which doesn’t help solve the mystery. Any ideas?
Got My Farmers Supabowzooka Shirt
I got my promotional Supabowzooka Shirt from the Farmers Hawaii and Yelp partnership. How about you?
Much thanks to Farmers Hawaii and their social media crew!
International Delight Might Have a Winner…
Historically, I’ve been disappointed with the variety of great sounding creamer flavors from International Delight. The bottle designs and images look great, the flavors sound tasty, but the actual flavors aren’t actually there. Â Never learning and doomed to repeat my mistakes, I tried another new flavor, the York Peppermint Pattie. Yes, this is based off of that round disc of a chocolate-covered mint.
International Delight got it right with this one. My perceptions and expectations matched the flavored outcome. Imagine if you melted a York pattie or two into your cup of coffee. Can you taste the subtle mint with that chocolatey tones? Yes, that’s what this creamer tastes like. Usually, I like my coffee on the sweeter side, but with the York Peppermint Pattie creamer, International Delight kept the sweetness appropriately muted.