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Hosting multiple wordpress instances

I set up three wordpress blogs (including this one) in the course of about twelve hours last weekend. It started out as an interest in setting up some sort of photoblog for my guinea pigs on their website (on whose webhosting this blog is vhosted on). A buddy suggested wordpress so I gave it a spin. One concern I had was to have a single software install if at all possible both to reduce disk usage (while not at all a significant cost factor on my hosting account, just on princple why waste disk space) and to eliminate having to cascade changes. So I set forth at trying to share a wordpress install on my hosting account.

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Hey, I’ve seen this movie

Wasn’t this Jennifer 8, with Andy Garcia and Uma Thurman?

ST. AUGUSTINE, Florida (AP) — The Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind allowed felons to work on campus construction jobs during the past two years, according to interviews and documents.

Many of the workers were allowed on campus even though they had failed background checks, school employees complained.

The felons included a man convicted of domestic battery and selling cocaine; a man convicted of aggravated assault; and a man convicted of offenses including trafficking in hallucinogens, battery on his spouse and domestic violence, The St. Augustine Record reported Sunday.

Girdle… of *live* crocodiles… WTF?

How the hell does someone come up with this idea? I mean it’s not like they’re gonna sit still and cooperate while this woman was strapping them on. Sure, their snouts were tied shut, but they could still squirm.

JERUSALEM (AP) — A woman was caught with three crocodiles strapped to her waist at the Gaza-Egypt border crossing after guards noticed that she looked “strangely fat,” officials said.

The woman’s odd shape raised suspicions at the Rafah terminal in southern Gaza, and a body search by a female border guard turned up the animals, each about 50 centimeters (20 inches) long, concealed underneath her loose robe, according to Maria Telleria, spokeswoman for the European observers who run the crossing.

“The woman looked strangely fat. Even though she was veiled and covered, even with so many clothes on there was something strange,” Telleria said.
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I need help

I’ve got the song from the Geico commercial with the caveman on the airport moving sidewalk stuck in my head.

The State buying itself a guarantee of child support obligation

So Texas Republican State Senator Dan Patrick has authored legislation for Texas to pay pregnant women who are considering an abortion $500 to carry the child to term and surrender the child for adoption. Details of the law require the child be placed for adoption and has a time limit. Existing cases are calling into question male exemption from child support in the face of contract, truth, or even reason. In cases involving sperm donors, improperly handled IVF materials, IVF materials stolen in divorce disputes, or even “my twin brother might have done it” defenses against dna evidence in rape cases, the courts are showing that DNA links trump everything. Would the State of Texas engaging in what amounts to the tax payers buying a child from a child vendor provide an unknowing father a way of escaping the paternal responsibilities of child support? I think not. What is to stop Texas from paying some woman $500 to carry her baby to term, and then when the child lands on the welfare roles after being unadoptable, having social services identify the father and seek child support.