Free as in Pizza

A few weeks ago my coworker Jule interviewed me about why I like to bake, and the question turned to cookies:

JULE: Chocolate chip cookie: recipe on the Tollhouse bag or something more sinister?

WAM: A bag of mix, one clover, and one bee. I rarely make cookies from scratch. I like the Tollhouse recipe but usually I’m missing something basic like brown sugar or vanilla, and then I go to buy vanilla and there’s no vanilla left. Ridiculous. On Tuesday I had to buy cinnamon for pumpkin pie, and there was ONE container of cinnamon on the shelf, and it was huge. So now I have enough cinnamon to last until 2012.

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Here’s something I discovered while troubleshooting a connection between the ecto blog editor and WordPress MU. Ecto was giving the following error (which I’ve generalized):

XML-RPC services are disabled on this blog.  An admin user can enable them at http://www.hostname.com/blogname/wp-admin/options-writing.php

I had checked the setting in the blog in question, and XML-RPC appeared to be enabled. It turned out that XML-RPC was disabled on the WPMU default blog. After I enabled it there as well, the connection started working.

Note to @FoxBroadcasting: “SPOILER WARNING” means nothing in a medium where you can’t read the warning without simultaneously reading the spoiler. [SPOILER WARNING: link reveals plot details of the Nov 10th episode of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles]

Here’s the plan:

1. Eat every pizza in the District of Columbia.
2. Write about it.

Possible bonuses: code, comics, cooking