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Welcome to my first cop-out post

5-Jan-08

…where the entire content is links to other bloggers’ posts that I liked.

Funny:

Informational (sort of):

Roleplaying (my interest in this will become evident in a later post):

How you know you’re been spending too much time on the Internet…

2-Jan-08

I should be sleeping right now, I really should. You know what I’m actually doing? Typing in stuff related to this blog on Google.

Did you know that you can type “petoholics” into just about any search engine and this blog comes up first? I’m getting noticed and it feels so good! Although it rather disheartening when Google says “Did you mean ‘petaholics’?”

And while searching, I also found three more blogs that link to me. Mwah ha ha ha, I told you that I would find you and I did. There is no escape from me…

Wow, that sounded really stalker-ish.

Troll on a PowerBookA huntaholic, petaholic, and altaholic mashing buttons on a Mac G4 laptop—no mouse, no problem.

Have Bow, Will Travel – A WoW Hunter’s Blog of Mishaps and Misadventures

Constrictor’s Hunter Page – A Portuguese blog that apparently will be about this guy taming every single pet and learning every single pet skill. That’s quite an endeavour he’s undertaking…hopefully I’ll be able to keep track of his progress with Google’s translator because I do not know a lick of Portuguese! (I have nine years of high school French under my belt and I still can’t understand French so Portuguese is a lost cause for me)

At least Rayare knows my pain of playing WoW on a laptop, although I do use a mouse and I try to avoid playing on my laptop as much as possible, due to it being 5 years old and running horribly horribly slow. We will have to have a chat about the term “petaholic” instead of “petoholic”. I think I’m going to have to start a petition or something.

Oh, and that little orange cat that stares at you every time you come to this blog. I’ve named him Twitch and he is now the official mascot of Petoholics Anonymous. Why Twitch? If you’re asking then apparently you’ve never watched the ears of a springpaw.

….Yes, it is definitely time to sleep now.

Item Tooltips in WordPress Revisited

31-Dec-07

Note: Unless you are a WordPress user or a web programmer geek, this post will probably be very boring to you.

If you’ve been using an installed version of WordPress for your blog, you’ve probably noticed the little bar just under your admin menu to update to the latest verison 2.3.2. Apparently there’s some security fixes in there including the fix for a hack that allowed anyone to see your draft posts. Frankly, I wasn’t too worried about people seeing my draft posts (not like I have any national secrets or anything) but that little bar was bugging me because I’m almost OCD about keeping my software and stuff up-to-date.

Only doing this wasn’t simple for me because apparently the WordPress scripts were using a little too much memory and I kept getting Allowed Memory Size Exhausted Error. In frustration, I downgraded and upgraded two more times, only to get the same result. I was about to write a email to my webhost when I happened to check their support database and lo and behold, there was my answer! I created a custom php.ini file, placed it in the subdirectory that is this blog and bing! Everything knows works perfectly. Did I mention that I love my webhost? Buy your hosting from her, she’s a super nice lady and has the cheapest prices you will ever see, I swear.

So, enough about that and onto a related topic that I’ve been meaning to cover for a while. Before, I wasn’t able to get ItemStats working on this blog so I had come up with a custom solution that was a little bit…complicated. I actually ended up getting ItemStats to work but I was having problems with it dealing with the permalinks and I don’t even think the entire script is supported anymore…

Then Thottbot, quickly followed by WoWHead, came up with their own handy solutions in the form of a JavaScript that you just link to. Seriously, that was it. So, this is my little tutorial of how to implement it in a WordPress blog:

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