Posted on March 1, 2009 by Mike
Yup, things look different.
But if you’ve been reading a certain blog that has risen up in the last month, it might look familiar.
More news to come about this blog and “that other one.” [Editor's Note: We're talking about PuchingKitty.com]
Check back soon.
Posted on August 12, 2008 by Mike
Since moving my personal blog to WordPress, I’ve found that is (2.5-2.6) is the first release of WordPress or MovableType that I’ve been really happy with…except for the commenting system. It was boring, and had really no features and was a bitch to edit or play with because of the crazy WordPress code (that and the whole freaking reason I’m using WordPress is because I want to come home and NOT have to code a blogging platform!).
Disqus has been an option for a while, but the fact they “trap” your comments didn’t sit well with me. Today they released their big 2.0 version, and finally I’m on board! The comments pass through to WordPress, and I also get all the fancy Disqus features, all with the ease of a WordPress plugin.
Note to the Disqus guys: I would have loved this for ToastedRav.com but I’ve already written my own system that I like a lot…however, if you get your API up and documented, I or more likely other big sites in our corporate group could take a hard look at you for sites that don’t revolve around comments like ToastedRav does. You gotta get that API up though, so I can recreate this great WordPress functionality in our custom environment!
Note: ALL of the old comments are missing until they are exported fully into the Disqus system. Suck. Hopefully it will be done and they will all come back soon.
Posted on April 3, 2008 by Mike
So up until today, my switch to WordPress from Movable Type was pretty much all gumdrops and handjobs…that is, until my carefully crafted URL translator suddenly stopped working.
Backstory: When I switched from MT to WP, I had to have my permalinks change. That sucked, but I got them as close as possible to the old ones and I modified the .htaccess file WordPress had to redirect all old links to a php file that figured out what post they wanted and pushed them to the new link. It took all of 20 minutes and I completed the switch. However, somehow through my tinkering with WordPress over the past few days WordPress overwrote my modified .htaccess file. Suck. Luckily I was getting traffic from another blog today and I noticed they linked to an article that didn’t make much sense so I looked in to it and noticed that none of the old redirects were working. Not cool. To make matters work, my work site died for a short time today too, so its been a really buggy day and I didn’t need this.
I just got it working again though, and this time backed up my .htaccess changes so I don’t have to rethink it all over again. That all being said, I hate it when software like this expects that you don’t actually work with your files. I know the minority of WordPress users don’t go digging around in their .htaccess file, but I think it is common enough that they should either:
- Notify you of the pending overwrite, or
- Have a smarter .htaccess creator that only replaces their lines and not the whole file.
…all in all, I’m still liking my move to WordPress, and this hit me on a bad day, but still…since this is the version that is downloaded and installed by users, maybe WordPress should think about its power-users just a little more.
Posted on March 30, 2008 by Mike
Hell Yeah Bitch! .com turned 5 years old on 2.17.2008 and we have always been a Movable Type blog, but starting today, we are now running WordPress. I’ve thought about moving to WordPress several times, but always decided not too for various reasons. Last night though, after watching the video walkthrough for WordPress 2.5, I decided it was time to actually do it.
I have never been one of those guys that is 100% into a certain blogging platform (with the notable exception of my own blogging platform that run ToastedRav.com) but I stuck with Movable Type for a long time for reasons like the static pages keeping database hits down, and WordPress’ spaghetti code but both of those things don’t matter to me any more. The Dreamhost database seems to be able to handle everyday time requests (though I still need to figure out a caching system for WordPress…any ideas?) and now with me working all day on my own blogging platform, I’ve found I like to just come home and blog on a stock system that doesn’t need to be hacked to my liking (though plugins help). Not only that but some of the new features in WordPress 2.5 are going to be huge in making things simple enough for me that I will continue to make time for blogging on this site. Like what? Um, how about multiple file uploads that those spiffy gallery features for starters.
Like all moves, I’m sure I missed something. Please let me know if you find anything breaking on your browser or if you noticed that I forgot to move something over from the old directory.
A few notes:
The permalinks had to change which sucks, but I did take the time tonight to write a little script and add a rewrite rule that will catch any old links and push the user to the same post under the new permalink. Hopefully this will end up being a complete non-issue, but I did want to address it here.
I exported my MT blog and imported in to WordPress a few hours ago, so any comments posted in that time will be effectively gone. Sorry.
Posted on April 29, 2007 by Mike
Clearly this site needs a redesign because its become apparent that people have a bitch of a time using it when they are drunk…namely my girlfriend, her sister and the sister’s “bro” friends.
Posted on March 30, 2007 by Mike
No posts lately. I should explain…
Its hard to post about the usual Hell Yeah Bitch! .com fair (like beating up handicapped people or something about Jenna Jameson) when you are:
1. Sitting in meetings for 2.5 straight days.
2. These meetings are run by a company that is very affiliated with a certain strict and uptight church.
Meeting are over at 12:00pm, I’ll be home by 9:30pm. Posting will resume with something screwed up soon.
Posted on March 26, 2007 by Mike
Twitter is the new fad among the Web Geeks and the best way to sum it up is that Twitter is micro-blogging. By that I mean, its lots and lots of little tiny pointless posts. Apparently the idea is the use this micro-posts to tell people what you are doing right at this very moment, like drinking coffee, giving it hard to a barely legal Vietnamese prostitute, or beating that last bit of life out of a baby seal. That of course turns out be just a little more hopelessly boring than it sounds which makes most Twitter streams about as boring as…well…their owner’s blogs about their cat. Naturally, I’ve been shunning Twitter all this time because of that.
So why the change? Well if you recall, or even if you don’t, which doesn’t matter because you can’t change the past, back in the olden times of Hell Yeah Bitch! .com I had a quote that I would change at the top of the page to be something different when I felt like it. It was somewhat fun, but I had to go in a change it by hand and I turned out to be lazy enough that I wouldn’t even write code to make it easier in the long run to change it, so after the redesign that followed, the quote was killed…or “end quoted.” After looking in to Twitter a little more today, I realized that this could be the Quote 2.0 (Forgive me for using 2.0, I’m a bastard.). So for now we (royally, of course) are using the stock javascript to put the latest Twitter at the top of the page. Rest assured though, you will not be seeing things like “I’m eating a sandwich” or “I’m putting on my diaper in preparation for my dominatrix to arrive” sprawling across the top of the screen. No, I’ll be instead using it for little oddities that pop into my head. It they aren’t funny let me know, if Twitter is slowing the site down, let me know, or if you think this is cool and you want in on the action, lets talk and we can find a way for all the “friends of the site” to be able to put a new quote up there. Of course that last option will mean you will have to actually admit to people that you read this site, so think about the consequences before you add me as a friend.
Right now I just have my Twitter account, but if this goes well, I may just make one for the site itself later on. I’m mikehyb.
Posted on February 28, 2007 by Mike
Work sucks, and when there’s a lot of work, it sucks even more. I feel horrible about the complete shitty state this site has been in for the last week. My work is still hanging out at Cafe Clusterfuck, but I will be making a serious to get a few posts up a day starting now.
As a peace offering, I give you this joke:
Three guys were on a trip to Saudi Arabia.
One day, they stumbled into a harem tent filled with over 100 beautiful women. They started getting friendly with all the women, when suddenly the Sheik came in.
“I am the master of all these women. No one else can touch them except me. You three men must pay for what you have done today. You will be punished in a way corresponding to your profession.”
The sheik turns to the first man and asks him what he does for a living. “I’m a cop”, says the first man. “Then we will shoot your penis off!”, said the sheik.
He then turned to the second man and asked him what he did for a living. “I’m a firemen”, said the second man. “Then we will burn your penis off!”, said the sheik.
Finally, he asked the last man, “And you, what do you do for a living?” And the third man answered, with a sly grin, “I’m a lollipop salesman!”
Posted on February 20, 2007 by Mike
With all the commotion around me last week, not to mention the 1st anniversary of the Kate Beckinsale series, I completely forgot about our birthday (2/17). We’re 4 years old now. I’m pretty sure this news means nothing and nothing will change, but it does give me an excuse to show this birthday party picture:
Feel free to hum the happy birthday song to us while you look around your place and decide if you really want to yank it to the above picture.
Posted on February 12, 2007 by Mike
Some new additions to the video section that I failed to mention:
- The a little too catchy Meth PSA. (Check it.)
- Billy Dee Williams tells the world that Colt 45 will get you laid. (Check it.)
- An informative video from a tech high school on Sloths. Tip: Don’t call them slow. (Check it.)
Since moving my personal blog to WordPress, I’ve found that is (2.5-2.6) is the first release of WordPress or MovableType that I’ve been really happy with…except for the commenting system. It was boring, and had really no features and was a bitch to edit or play with because of the crazy WordPress code (that and the whole freaking reason I’m using WordPress is because I want to come home and NOT have to code a blogging platform!).
Disqus has been an option for a while, but the fact they “trap” your comments didn’t sit well with me. Today they released their big 2.0 version, and finally I’m on board! The comments pass through to WordPress, and I also get all the fancy Disqus features, all with the ease of a WordPress plugin.
Note to the Disqus guys: I would have loved this for ToastedRav.com but I’ve already written my own system that I like a lot…however, if you get your API up and documented, I or more likely other big sites in our corporate group could take a hard look at you for sites that don’t revolve around comments like ToastedRav does. You gotta get that API up though, so I can recreate this great WordPress functionality in our custom environment!
Note: ALL of the old comments are missing until they are exported fully into the Disqus system. Suck. Hopefully it will be done and they will all come back soon.