Phew.
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Keynesian Economics Explained
Hilarious.
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Long Singles, over the Green Monster
Gonzo has “just been trying to hit singles.” Let’s hope there are more “singles” like he hit last night.
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1Password and the Mac App Store
Gabe over at [MacDrifter](http://www.macdrifter.com/) got me nervous this morning when [he posted](http://www.macdrifter.com/2012/07/1password-on-the-mac-app-store/) that 1Password was pulled from the Mac App Store due to a sandboxing problem. Thankfully, *AgileBits’s* founder [Roustem Karimov](http://twitter.com/roustem) cleared things up on Twitter:
> [We] just need more time to rework Dropbox access.
and
> Sandbox now provides everything we need. We just had some old code related to Dropbox folder access, it must be changed.
Phew. Crisis averted.
Alternative energy I can get behind.
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Flash is not Installed
If this was the error message, I might actually be sad about not installing flash.
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Papi to have MRI Today
Red Sox nation holds its breath.
iFanboy with a wrap-up of all the major stories from Comic-Con (at least the ones relevant to comics fans.)
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iPad’s Revolutionizing NFL Playbooks
No big deal, they’re just *consuming* the playbook anyway.
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Office for Mac and iOS
Office for Mac counts for the 365 Home Premium Subscription. Also, [The Beard says Office for iOS coming at the release of Office 15](http://www.loopinsight.com/2012/07/16/the-future-of-office-for-mac-and-ios/).
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Tips for Making the Jump to Linode
On a *fairly*[^fn1] recent episode of [Build & Analyze](http://5by5.tv/buildanalyze), Marco Arment suggested that web developers host their applications on a [Linode](http://www.linode.com/?r=0a0ee6d9705b4ea2ace5f56965fd14bde1b69828)[^liref] instance instead of a shared hosting provider. Though most of my web development these days would be classified as “tinkering,” I decided that I might as well make the jump to Linode for my websites instead of the shared host I was using.
Here are a few things I learned while working on the migration of my [Wordpress](http://www.wordpress.org) sites from the shared host to Linode:
* Take advantage of the [Linode Library Guides](http://library.linode.com/hosting-website). They have a lot of good information about how to get things started.
* Remember to import your migrated data into the *correct* database.
* Update your WordPress wp-config.php file with your new database configuration information. (This is especially important if your shared host did not run its databases as a “localhost” you could access.)
* To log into a [Mysql](http://www.mysql.com/) instance on your localhost with a database user you created, you have to set the “localhost” permissions for that user (*See* [this article from ServerFault](http://serverfault.com/questions/219499/cant-login-to-a-new-mysql-user) for what I’m talking about).
* Though you can mass copy your WordPress files to your new server, you are almost certainly going to want to deactivate all of your WordPress plugins and then reactivate them one by one to make sure they all work in the new environment. (You can [deactivate all plugins via the database](http://perishablepress.com/quickly-disable-or-enable-all-wordpress-plugins-via-the-database/) if you have trouble logging into your WordPress instance initially.)
Overall, the migration from WordPress to Linode was pretty painless. None of the above issues took much more than a Google search to debug. Now I wait and see how well the site holds up on a server that I’m totally responsible for.
[^fn1]: I cannot remember which one, but it might have been a few weeks ago.
[^liref]: Referral Link
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Youk was a Class Act
> “He could easily have turned his back on me. He could have easily been bitter, and he wasn’t at all. He was a friend.”
Will Middlebrooks on Kevin Youkilis
(via [Big League Stew](http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mlb-big-league-stew/juice-ben-sheets-wins-first-start-almost-two-115329172–mlb.html))
See, also, [Youk’s note to Red Sox Nation](http://www.fenwaywest.com/2012-articles/july/youks-love-note-to-red-sox-nation.html).
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Why Batman always falls for bad Girls
I was hoping for more from this article. Of course, I probably just wanted them to take the route [Grantland took in analyzing AJ Lee](http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/8077091/wwe-diva-aj-brings-depth-cm-punk-daniel-bryan-kane-feud-female-characters-pro-wrestling): guys dig the crazy chicks.
Well done Mr. Kelly. Well done.
Well deserved.
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Baseball’s 10 Most Disappointing Player
Adrian Gonzalex, John Lackey, Dice-K, and Daniel Bard. Ugh. (Okay, John Lackey and Dice-K aren’t actually on the list, but they are mentioned in the article.)
Woah.
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New Home at Linode
I have been looking for a way to do some programming-related things, particularly some Ruby development. In order to freshen up my skills on various tools, command line techniques, etc… I decided it was time to move my website to a host that I had more control over. If this post is visibile, it means I’ve completed my move over to [Linode](http://www.linode.com/?r=0a0ee6d9705b4ea2ace5f56965fd14bde1b69828)[^ref].
[^ref]: Referral Link
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New Book Coming from Rucka and Lark
Sign me up.
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Colleen Coover Sketch – Harley Quinn
I was the lucky buyer (commissioner?) of this sketch. It’s going to be on my wall very soon.