Archive for January, 2009
Quick Tip: Freeze Your Cheese!
Jan 27th
I’d like to start a new kind of blog post: the quick tip! This will apply to any simple hint that has helped me out in my many endeavors. This one is food related. And now, the tip!
If you want to shred a soft cheese (or another similar substance that break easily), freeze it first, at least partially. The cold will firm it up so that it doesn’t tear before it shreds. Different freeze times might work better for different cheeses, so give it a shot. Experiment! And don’t forget, don’t be scared to mess things up! You won’t learn any other way.
Bacon in, Bacon Out
Jan 26th
I went to Comet last night with some friends to celebrate my birthday. Nothing fancy—a nice, low key evening with a few people who are close to me. I fathomed not the berth of bacon that would befall mine bowels.
As my gullet quivered with greasy goodness, my propensity for things quite the opposite began to jingle-jangle: the awkward salvation army collector at the exit of my mind’s Downer Sendik’s. It screamed, in so many rings: ABORT MISSION. REPEAT: ABORT MISSION. DO NOT EAT. DROP THE BACON. DROP IT NOW. ABORT OR SUFFER THE CONSEQUENCES.
And like most people, I ignored the bells, continuing instead to stuff copious amounts of hog belly into my own hog belly. Despite following the pound or more of bacon that I ate with an amazing vegan meatloaf, several beers and other drinks, I can still only say:
Bacon in, bacon out. Happy birthday, idiot.
Bread
Jan 23rd
So, I finally nailed my bread recipe. For now, just photos. A written recipe won’t do this justice, so I’m going to record some video and post it in the weeks to come. Peace, and yeast.
Drupal Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted
Jan 17th
While installing the Calendar module for a Drupal site, I ran into the following error:
Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 71 bytes) in /home/milwaul0/public_html/drupal/includes/theme.inc on line 729
Confounded, I searched the internet and found this:
http://drupal.org/node/283579
The first option (making a php.ini file in the root) appears to need a restart of the webserver, so I tried the second option, allocating more memory to php via drupal using:
ini_set(‘memory_limit’, ‘64M’); in the sites/default/settings.php file
But before that, I had to change the permissions of the file, which had been set to 555 (default, by the site admin I assume).
I initially set the memory to 64M to make sure it would work, since 33554432 bytes is 32MB. After it worked, I noticed that the permissions for the file had been reset to 555, so I changed that again and allocated 32MB for php. It worked. If ever any problems arise, I’ll know what to do.
What’s weird is that this error was triggered while allocating 71 bytes. I don’t know why there was even an issue… anyone?