Appalachian Trail Camping
We just got back from an amazing 3 day, 2 night camping trip on the Appalachian Trial. It was an awesome trip, and probably a lot harder than most of us anticipated, but well worth it… I just had some fresh water from the tap, and I was amazed at how nice that was after just 3 days without. This kind of vacation from the world makes you appreciate the little things I suppose.
Not only was it great to get outside and do something challenging like this, but it’s not often that you to hang out with old friends… Read more
John Edwards – The Next Attorney General
Obama will be the next president. And unless he and John Edwards decide to make a joint ticket, I believe one of the first things Obama will do is appoint John Edwards to Attorney General. The attorney general can be replaced at any time (as long as the Senate confirms it) so I see this happening in the first couple months of Obama’s Presidency.
John Edwards is a big fan of Robert Kennedy, so I decided to do a little research and the similarities between Obama & Edwards and JFK & RFK are actually surprising… Read more
WordPress How-To: Database Installation
After quite a few problems, this site is back up. Just a brief overview of why it was down for so long… I was updating the site from http://www.bryanshumaker.com/blog to http://www.bryanshumaker.com and my computer died. Turned out it was a faulty hardware problem on the motherboard, which I fixed, but it also required a rebuild of XP. After that was fixed, I got back to my host company to finish the migration and the permissions for the WordPress Database had gotten messed up. It took about 2 weeks with them to get everything corrected. Then… Since I was already going through all this, I decided to go ahead and upgrade wordpress to the new version. Turns out that the new version had to access the database differently than the previous in the wp-config.php file… here is the corrected line (for my own future reference):
define(‘DB_HOST’, ‘db720int.dotsterhost.com:3306′);
In a nutshell, three complicated problems kept me down for about 5 weeks. But it’s all fixed now (hopefully) and everything that was up before will be reposted and then I’ll continue from there.
Also, make sure index.php is a default document in your website configuration, and all index files have full write permissions.