Archive for July, 2008

July in Shampoo Banana and the Pains of Work

Blog/News/Stuff: July 9th, 2008

And so the fourth of July has returned once more. This year, having stayed on campus, I was able to experience local festivities. There was a local parade which started at the intersection of Lincoln and Nevada over in Urbana. Parades, in my opinion, aren’t too interesting to begin with. But this parade, while nothing [...]

Displaying Asian Text in Wordpress

Blog/News/Stuff: July 10th, 2008

After I upgraded to 2.5, my East Asian text became all jumbled as random characters. If you were having problems displaying your characters properly like I was, all you need to do is access your wp-config.php file in your base Wordpress directory. You want to delete the following lines of code from the file.
define(’DB_CHARSET’, ‘utf8′);
define(’DB_COLLATE’, [...]

7-Eleven Day

Blog/News/Stuff: July 11th, 2008

If you have a 7-Eleven nearby, you may want to stop by sometime today. For today is July 11th, 7-Eleven day!
All 7-Eleven’s will be giving away free 7.11 ounce Slurpees to each customer all day long, or until the cups run out. While I doubt they will each carry 711 of these 7.11 ounce cups, [...]

Modern Day Computer Repair

Blog/News/Stuff: July 13th, 2008

What is this a picture of? That, my friends, was the inside of my old computer set up. For reasons beyond me, the fan on my processor decided to die. Obviously my compy was not happy with this, and things got a little heated between us. I didn’t enjoy my compy crashing on me, so [...]