Incoming From Google! Angry Water Slide Owners.
Over the last week, my logs have shown an influx of hundreds of people from google.com
researching the Six Flags Banzai Falls Water Slide and coming across my pithy article. It
appears the oversized inflatable Slip N' Slide is showing signs of suckage, and random net-dwellers are
flocking here to see what I had to say about it.
Poster Lisa Cox writes:
I have had to replace the Banzai waterslide twice now. The
1st time was for a minor hole. The 2nd was a dangerous blowout that my 9 yr. old had when she went
down the slide and hit the bottom of the slide. The whole bottom blew out and deflated the
slide while my 4 yr. old was waiting at the top! This slide needs to be 3-4 ft. longer at the
bottom and needs to be put together a little better than a string of single line stictches.
The force that you come down the slide with can only withstand so much! Now I have very upset
children and no slide!
Not quite the "older kids
with pointy sticks" I predicted, but it appears that this overpriced fun-nugget
is causing quite a stir. Any other googlers have similar problems? Perhaps the slide is due for a recall.
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Setting Up a Staging Site for Blosxom
I use the Blosxom blog-engine here at GlitchNYC both for its simplicity and its flexibilty.
The core system is super-simple: just put a file in a directory (say for example ~/blog/politics/) and it
will show up on your front page. Eventually, it will get pushed down the page by newer articles, but is
still accessible by topic (in the example above, the article was in the politics directory - that also
becomes its
category online). You can also access old articles by month or year, going back through the archives using
the calendar plugin which you can see on my site.
In the wake of the recent Movable Type price hikes, I'm glad to
be using an open source system, and I love
being able to tweak the innards of blosxom myself.
Recently, I was griping
about the fact that I will often post an article filled with typos, broken links,
and missing images, simply because I can't see the article until I make it live. It turns out that Blosxom
is so simple I only had to make a few minor changes to set up a little staging site.
See more ...
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