Rants

They say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, so the folks over at Girls Gone Wild HQ must be pretty happy. I stumbled onto an infomercial for a GGW knock-off this morning called Wild Party Girls. Instead of $9.95 for a video, really usually 2 because they throw in a “free” one, these guys are giving you two DVDs for Free!* (*$5.95 shipping and handling)

Not only are the DVDs free, but they are going to toss in a free hat. It is one of those foam trucker hats that have become, for some inexplicable reason, fashionable again. The hat is bright red with a white front panel. On that white front panel, in matching bright red lettering, are the words “Wild Party Girls.”

It might as well just say “I’m A Loser” on it. This thing screams, “Hey look at me, I’m a schlub! My idea of excitement is to watch girls expose their breasts.” The only purchasers of these things that can’t be considered perverts are, the people who aren’t supposed to buy them in the first place, boys 17 and under.

Does the buyer of these type of videos think that if he wears that hat around, nubile young women will just lift their shirts and flash him, hoping to get a starring role in the next series of DVDs?

The flu has been making the rounds at work and elsewhere for the last 6 weeks or so. Donna came down with it and after 3 weeks is just now getting near normal. I was so proud of myself because it looked like I was going to dodge it entirely. Ah, not so fast buddy boy. Around last Wednesday I started with a little sore throat in the morning. It never got any worse, so I figured I had it whooped. Tee hee, nope. Yesterday I awoke to body aches and pains and a stuffy head. So far my symptoms have been fairly mild, but I’m congratulating myself on any victories anymore…it could get worse.

Spring better show up here soon or heads are going to roll. 😡 Today was another day where the high temperature did not even get above the average low for this time of year. We are supposed to be at the 70 degree mark for crying out loud.

Smilies. I’ve got them and you don’t. They work on the main page, but I couldn’t get the things to work on the individual post pages. So you see them here, but on any other page you will get the plain ol’ ASCII verson. I couldn’t get them to work on the comment form either and they were supposed to have clickable entry too. I think it is because I use the dynamic publishing feature of MT. 🙁

Had a little issue with my blog’s database. I successfully exported my entries, so I had a good back-up. I deleted the db and made a new one. While I was at it I uploaded a fresh install of MT. Trouble started when I went to initialize Movable Type. I kept getting a database error. After monkeying with it for about an hour, in frustration I wrote a “help me” post on the MT Support Forums. So far no help. Doesn’t matter as I figured out the problem all on my own. The previous install was set to dynamically publish and to do so meant you had to add a bit of code to your htaccess file. I’m not sure why that code would interfere with creating tables in an SQL database, but when I removed it I could then initialize MT. Now that we are up and running, I’ll go back later and add the code back, so I can dynamically publish again.

Well, what do you think? Something is still screwed up with daily archive pages. In the monthly calendar that appears there the daily links all want to lead to a certain date in January that doesn’t exist. The category and monthly archives seem fine. Maybe I should just go back to individual entries as my primary archive and just chuck out the whole daily bit. Then again maybe it is time to export all my entries and do a fresh MT install. That is a lot more work, but what else do I have to do with my life? 🙂