Looking For a Place to Live
March 12th, 2008
I will be moving soon and I need to find a place to live in PB so I’ve been apartment hunting. Today I went looking for a place with my future roommate and we found a decent place that is a little beat up. I figured with with some paint, a new carpet and a little TLC could be a great place. The Realtor lady assured us that Cal-Prop, the property management company, would be fixing it up. I thought it would be good to move into a place with all these new things, but the future roomy said she heard that Cal-Prop can be shady and usually keeps your whole security deposit when you move out. I didn’t like the sound of that! I understand that. I understand there are going to be times when tenants trash their places, especially in PB, and property management will keep some or most of the deposit, but not the whole deposit all the time. I figured I would check into the claims of Cal-Prop being a bad property manager when I got home, and it looks like they are indeed shady. I only found three different sites reviewing Cal-Prop, but none of them were good. Those bad reviews were enough for me to skip this place and keep looking, I’d rather save myself from headaches that I don’t need. Anyone else have a bad experience with Cal-Prop?
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Link Lovin’
March 10th, 2008
“Almost Pretty” URLs with WordPress
January 29th, 2008
If this isn’t a case of RTFM, then I don’t know what is. I set up my friends blog back in October using WordPress and wanted to enable pretty URLs. Unfortunatly, he chose Yahoo! as his host and they don’t allow access to the .htacess file. I thought there was no way to do it since I couldn’t use mod_rewrite. However, if I had just read the whole permalink article on the WordPress Codex, I would have realized that I could have “almost pretty” URLs by just adding “index.php” in front of the structure and let WordPress use a little PATHINFO magic.
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Creepy Face Photo Editing
January 16th, 2008
Ok, you may think this post is kind of creepy, but hey its not like I have real visitors to this site so what the heck. Jon and Joey both did this and I think its pretty funny so here are the mirrored sides of my face.
I kinda like the strange tube that is around my neck on the left side, but the right side is way skinnier, either way my hair is out of control in both(which is the same in a regular picture) so I like ‘em.
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Upgraded WordPress, Finally!
December 16th, 2007
Well I finally upgraded my WordPress install to the latest version. I had attempted to do this about a month ago, but got sidetracked for some reason. The overall process was painless, it took me under 30 minutes to backup my database, upload the new files and update all of my plugins. The one thing I realized is that if you hard coded any of your plugins to your theme, you should use function_exists in the event you disable them or upgrade the plugin and the function no longer exists.
Plugins I use
Since I just upgraded them all I figure I might as well let you know which plugins I use on this blog.
Theme
Now I just need to create a custom theme for this site. The current theme I have was meant to be temporary, but I’ve slacked big time and it is any but. I finally understand em based layouts because of the great article on A List Apart by Richard Rutter, so hopefully I’ll get it done sometime in 2008.
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