I usually only work 3 days out of a week. These 3 days mainly consisting of the weekends. I’ve been neglected over mentioning exactly what I do simply because………well………it’s lame. How lame, as you may ponder in mild excitement. Well, my job is to simply return grocery carts back into the store.

That’s right, I’m a cart attendant.

Yes, the job that barely stands above working at a fast food joint flipping burgers. But don’t get me wrong, I am able to “upgrade” from C.A. to a floor attendant at any time. Although, if I were to do so, there is a good chance I’ll work more hours and lose all my free time which I like to reserve for school, art, etc.

So, the job isn’t all bad.(lots of sun, exercise,……..sun) I’ve been doing this job for a few months now, bringing the carts in as they go out. Again and again, week after week, same ole thing. Slowly, over time, I began to notice patterns. One person would do one thing, then the next person much later in the day would do it again.
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Nah I’m not, but I am extremely happy at this moment. If you’ve been lurking for the past day or so, you would have noticed the the sudden addition of the random image widget in the left sidebar over there. You also would have notice that if you click on one of the images, one out of three things would have happen.

1.You would go to the larger version of the image.
2.You would get a link to some random page with a extension like “/34-revision-7″
3. You would go to the actual post the image was from.(very rarely I might add)

Well, the truth was I was having some serious complications with the plugin. I wanted the damn thing to show random images from my past posts and link those images back to my past posts so those of whom are too lazy to check my history or my artwork page can see and even comment on my old achievements accordingly. This wasn’t the case obviously. It took me some time but I manage to figure out what was the problem. When I create and edit posts, WordPress stores ALL of my edits and call them (du du du duuuuuuuuu) Revision! These “revisions” are stored in the same place my original posts are store in via sql.

And since the random image plugin couldn’t tell the difference between my actual posts and the revision snake like shed skin counter parts, I was getting linked to not only the real posts but also the none existence revision posts.

You don’t know how angry this made me. I thought I would never get this fixed, but then my mastery interweb searching skillz came through. First of all, I had to disable that damn revision. Done! No more will it cause me angry and take up database space. Secondly, I had to delete all my old revision posts. This was the tricky part. Due to my ignorance, I was stuck here for a while. But once I fully understood what the hell I needed to do, it was done and done.

Sad to say, just getting rid of all the revision didn’t stop the images from linking to the revision posts. At this point I knew the source of problem could be no where but the plugin itself. And I was right. In the process of scanning the posts to create thumbnails out of them, the plugin also stores information on the sql database. This damn information is where it was getting it flawed links from. I quickly backed up my database and deleted that fucker with the fury of a thousand suns.

And there you have it folks. The story of how I got a simply plugin to work right and wasted time I could have been using to better my life.

WALL OF TEXT COUNTER ATTACK!!!!!

Video completely unrelated…

I haven’t done enough for my interweb brothers so here are few clips I could gather that are somewhat(?) Halloween related.

Anime- Sayonara Zetsubou sensei

Not necessarily Halloween related, per say, but still funny non the less.

Not really Halloween related either but it would be a scary moment for me and most other guys.
Anime- Seto no Hanayome