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As a second consequence of working on Drupal at the day job, site requirements pushed me into fixing up the URLs of the various pages on the site. In fact, I ended up finding a module for Drupal that will make the URLs fancy automagically.

It's called the Pathauto module -- change the PATH AUTOmatically.

Here's what it did. Here's a typical URL from the site:

http://parkspages.com/node/3

Doesn't tell you anything, does it?

Here's how Pathauto changes it and makes it much more useful:

http://parkspages.com/doug

Here's a couple more:

Blog Entries

Time for a tune up.
 
So, I was working on Drupal (the Content Management System used on ParksPages) for work and realized that it's dog slow. That's one of the reasons my boss was hesitant to switch to it from the Perl script we're currently using to generate our web pages.
 
Now, I thought that PPages was slow because our host was slow. Turns out it's slow for a couple of reasons unrelated to that. Basically, two things: cache and theme. The underlying issue is that Drupal generates web pages on the fly, pulling from the database.
 
Cache simply saves a copy of the web page so that when a user comes to it, it can just spit it out without having to create it from the database and re-draw it.
 

I would just like to thank the "American People," not the government, for proving that they CAN affect the price of gasoline in this Country, less use, equals lower prices, the more we use, the more it costs, THESE are the principles of Supply and Demand, so keep up the good work America, continued conservancy will bring tomorrows prices even lower.

Okay. I didn't want to deal with hate mail, so I posted this anonymously over on Jeff's Gameblog as a comment to his "Political Meme."

Let me put this into gamer context:

REAL LIFE RPG (TM)

Character Creation:

In the Real Life RPG(TM), you roll your character's physical traits and choose the attitudinal ones.

PHYSICAL TRAITS
Attributes
There are six attributes in the RL-RPG: Strength, Dexterity, Health, Willpower, Intelligence, and Perception.

Roll 3d6 for each and assign as desired.

Race (1)
Roll percentage and consult table:
1-68 White
69-83 Hispanic
84-95 African American
96-100 Asian American

Gender (2)

Copy this sentence into your LiveJournal/blog/whatever if you're in a heterosexual marriage, and you don't want it "protected" by the bigots who think that gay marriage hurts it somehow.

From Jeff's Gameblog.

I almost commented on that blog, but I just started reading it -- I've never conversed with these folks before.

Here's the response I would have added:

If you think that marriage is purely a religious affair, then it should be removed from State recognition completely.

If the State recognizes it as a "legal" arrangement, then it should in no way discriminate against participating citizens.