ProckNation

Wal*mart can get pretty screwed up on their pricing sometimes. Take a look at above.  This is a pic that a reader at the consumerist took when he went to Wal*mart one day.  The only thing I can figure is that they had some milk that was about to expire.  But I think that is giving Wal*mart a little to much credit.

Here is a picture I took a month or so ago when shopping for some trash bags.  Click the pic for a little better resolution.    All the Great value trash bags were the same price of $6.63.  Did not matter what size or kind.  I took a few different boxes to the price checker just to make sure.  Craziness.

I now hate going to Wal*mart because I spend half the time there with a calculator trying to figure if the bigger size of things is more expensive.  Which it is most of the time.  They work the “bigger size, better value” brainwash on a lot of their items.  I’ll post back with some pictures next time I go.

Bad Deal: Do Not Think About Walmart’s Milk Pricing Scheme Or Risk Brain Injury.

I remember going here with my dad a few times when I was a kid.  I had no idea it was a famous bowling alley.  The outside picture above looks just as I remember, big bright and pink!  The inside picture is very different than my memory.  It was much darker and nastier, not so quasi future as in the picture.

mental_floss Blog » 5 Famous Bowling Alleys.

I am kinda getting into wordpress now and soon into php.  I just found a wordpress podcast called WordPress Weekly.  Last week they had on Mark E which was talking about his new security plugin Maximum Security for WordPress.  I can’t wait for this new plugin.  The features of this plugin are so numerous that you have to go to the site.  It is still in its beta phase, but should be out soon.  But this looks like there will finally be a all-in-one security and site monitoring plugin with extensive logging.  I hate not exactly knowing what is going on and this looks to help with that.

Take a look at his plugin site and listen to the show he was on.  If you are new to wordpress or a dork of sorts this show is a good listen either way.

-jason

I was working on my blog this weekend trying to beef up the security and found this post very helpful.  It details the steps needed to change the database table prefixes to get away from the default wp_.

6 Simple Steps to Change Your Table Prefix in WordPress by Tdot – Blog.

While listening to Keith and the Girl, I heard that Scott Sigler has finally made it onto the New York Times bestseller list for the release of “Contagious.”  He was at #33 when I checked it on the morning of 1-15-09.  He should have made it when his last book “Infected” came out.  Even then he only missed it by a few.

Thanks to a Christmas gift from my mom, I was able to go and and get the book within the first week or two from when it was released.  I haven’t had a chance to read it yet, but I have been listening to the podcast version.  Even if I never get the chance to read it and only listen to the podcast I am glad I was able to support this great author and his new, better approach to writing and selling his works.

Since my last post about the “Contagious” release I have listened to his other books “Nocturnal” and “Earthcore.”  I am currently downloading “Ancestor”, “Bloodcast”, and “The Rookie.”  I have no idea what they are about, but I can’t wait to get time to listen to them.

Holy crap!! While looking for the names of the other books I am downloading I just found out the Scott will be here in Dallas tomorrow!  I hope I will be able to get up in time to make it to the book reading.  The event link is here.  This odd work week and night shift really sucks sometimes.  I am going to have to suck it up and just plan on taking a nap at work tomorrow night.

But anyways, congratulations to Scott Sigler for finally getting to the NYT list.

-jason

I just love the facial expression at 00:37.  I couldn’t stop laughing.

Here is the reason that anti-vaccination movement is a bad idea.  You can get away with no vaccinations up to a point, but when you reach a critical point of un-vaccinated population you get outbreaks.  You break the “herd” disease resistance allowing the disease to be spread more rapidly among the population.

There is an “unprecedented increase” in measles cases in England and Wales, experts report.

And 75% of the 115 cases diagnosed in November were outside the traditional hot spot of London – in the north west, west midlands and south east.

The HPA’s Dr Mary Ramsay said the rise was due to “relatively low” MMR uptake.

The number of measles cases in November 2008 was the same as was seen in the whole of 1996.

“This means that measles, which is highly infectious, is spreading easily among these un-vaccinated children.”

She added: “The HPA is concerned that we may see measles epidemics take hold.”

Unfortunately, these disease outbreaks affect children the most.  They depend on their parents to take care of their needs and to be vaccinated.  Unlike adults, they don’t have a choice in the matter.  The chart below shows the aftermath.

BBC NEWS | Health | ‘Unprecedented’ rise in measles.

For more info check out this link to Wikipedia describing a few cases of documented anti-vaccination movements the consequences.

Thanks to the Bad Astronomer for posting on this subject.

-jason

Here is an old post that forgot to publish a while back.

-jason