This is from adennak.com via BoingBoing.net. I do believe no further explanation is necessary…
Fireproof – See it!
Ok, it’s rare that I make movie recommendations because people’s tastes vary. However, I have to make an exception: The movie “Fireproof” is wonderful. Went today with my two older boys. I didn’t tell either it was a Christian movie – just that it was about a fireman and that the scenes I saw involved pulling people out of burning buildings or moving cars out of the way of trains (all true).
It’s about a couple (the man is a firefighter) who are going through a tough time in their marriage, and how he tries to get back together – with God’s help. Wonderfully done; I didn’t find it “preachey” or over-the top. I don’t think I’ve ever shed a tear in front of my kids before; I told them I had allergies (they didn’t buy it and are still ribbing me). What got me is that my oldest son’s only comment was “I liked it – but I didn’t cry I held it in”. High praise from a 13-year old.
Made my top ten list.
http://www.fireproofthemovie.com/
Paul Theroux
Paul Theroux gave a talk at Politics and Prose, Washington, DC., last night. I hadn’t read any of his books (he wrote Mosquito Coast among others), but will now. Fascinating talk about his travels.
You can get a real, LIVE Pokemon – Pikachu
The Tokyomango blog has an entry about how an auction site in Japan sold 20 “real live Pikachus” for almost a $billion. Kinda doubt it’s true (probably a photoshopped gerbil), but he sure is cute! Now, if they can find a real, live version of my favorite Pokemon (Squirtle), I’d be all over it…
WordPress login issue fixed
Right. I recently upgraded this installation of WordPress to 2.6, and just now tried to login as admin to change some settings. Nope, kept looping me back to the admin login page. Yes, I was using the correct password.
Turns out I was having a conflict with older plugins (I hadn’t disabled them). So, I went in to the backend MySQL database (via phpMyAdmin), and edited the wp_options table. I changed the option_value for the row with “active_plugins” to
a:0:{}
which basically turned off all plugins. I could then login (and turn on plugins one at a time to find the culprit).
Note that you can also change your password via the backend by editing the wp_users table and using the MD5 function on the password value. Neat.