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WordPress 2.5.1 Upgrade = Not Fun

May 12th, 2008 · 4 Comments

I’m really not sure what went wrong. I did the Dreamhost upgrade to WordPress 2.5.1 and it fried my entire blog. The database was fine (along with the config file pointing to it), but none of my posts were visible. I tried several things, including deleting the entire blog directory and re-installing [...]

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Tags: geek · wtf

Ryerson student faces expulsion

March 13th, 2008 · No Comments

This is not new, since the story broke a couple of weeks ago, but I haven’t brought this up before. Chris Avenir, a first-year Ryerson computer engineering student, is facing expulsion. His crime? Being the administrator on a Facebook group, which was intended to work the same way a study group [...]

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Tags: news · wtf

Brain-Eating Amoeba Kills Firefighter

March 13th, 2008 · No Comments

This is bizarre. A firefighter died on Wednesday from a brain-eating amoeba (Balamuthia mandrillaris) infestation. I wouldn’t expect to hear about something crazy like this in North America, but this happened in San Diego, California. Apparently, a mandrill baboon at the San Diego zoo came down with the infestation in 1990 and [...]

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Tags: news · wtf

Dancing Man With Horse Mask

March 12th, 2008 · No Comments

He is cooking wild mushrooms. Nothing wrong with that, right?

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Tags: funny · video · wtf

Glued to his seat!

November 6th, 2005 · No Comments

Stuck to Home Depot Toilet Seat: “LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A Colorado man who had a panic attack when he found he was glued to a toilet seat in a Home Depot restroom has sued the home improvement giant for negligence, saying staff ignored his plight.
Retired electrical engineer Bob Dougherty, 57, said on Thursday he [...]

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Tags: wtf

We are Fucked

April 16th, 2005 · No Comments

Indeed.

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Tags: funny · wtf