the otherwhirled

photo credit: ~ from evilbeetgossip.film.com What else can I say? If this wasn’t so funny, it’d be sad.

Thanks to the habitats of Great Apes across the world being more and more encroached upon and/or otherwise eradicated, I hereby announce that the otherwhirled will continue to be an ethanol-free environment, and a perpetual sanctuary....

photo credit: AP Photo/Gail Burton “Jenna Bush was obviously overwhelmed by the teeming crowds of supporters for her new book, Ana’s Story, which features a supposedly-real depiction of someone who is fundamentally more respectable than Ms. Bush herself, which ultimately being no surprise to anyone, resulted in rather mediocre sales, and several dollars spent on brand-new [...]

photo credit: AP Photo/U.S. Navy/Chad J. McNeeley “Ah don’t s’pose you’d like ta meet up later in mah Oval Orafice, wudja sailor?”

This was my first time upgrading the blog software, and I was very pleased that all three upgrades went off without a real hitch. In fact, over on perpetual dawnne, the update went so quickly that I had the maintenance mode splash page running for less than two minutes. I'm a bit mystified that there is no longer a wp_categories table, though. Why they moved from a nicely normalized data structure to aggregate counts and complex query conditions baffles me.