Long Zheng blogs about a leaked new Windows Vista Ultimate Extras sound scheme.
P.S. In case you are wondering this is one April Fool’s joke that I swallowed hook, line, and fishing pole. Did you get tricked into believing any?
Grocery chain Supervalu Inc. earlier this year was conned into depositing more than $10 million into two fraudulent bank accounts before it discovered the ruse.
Its idiots people like that who keep the spammers in business.
As I mentioned before, I upgraded my Blog to the latest version of WordPress, which includes a new feature called tagging*. I also noticed they had a cool utility to convert your categories to tags, which I proceeded to do. Big mistake. Not only did it convert all my categories into tags, it removed the categories, and categorized all my posts with the default category. 
And I couldn’t find an undo feature anywhere**. Hmm… now what? So what I did for now is added the following lines to my .htaccess file.
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule /category/ http://blog.kirb.us [R]
So now what happens is that when someone accesses one of my now non-existant categories it redirects them to the home page instead of giving them a Not Found page. Ideally it should redirect them to the tag instead, but I couldn’t figure out how to make that work. If anyone knows how to do that, let me know.
*Tagging is not a new idea, in fact it has become hugely popular. This is just the first time WordPress includes it by default.
**You say its called backups? What’s that?
UPDATE: I’m now getting an error “mod_rewrite: maximum number of internal redirects reached” I’m not sure if its related to this change or not, but I have disabled it in the meantime.
I just upgraded this blog to WordPress 2.3 and upgraded a bunch of plugins. My theme wasn’t compatible with the new version of WordPress therefore I have a ugly temporary one up until I find one that I like. I know, you are thinking that… “this blog is always under construction, and why doesn’t this idiot just leave good enough alone?” Ummm… you have a point.
