Staying in Florida for April
Back in Sarasota. Spent about two weeks with the Rainbow Family gathering in Apalachicola State Forest. Pretty mellow gathering. I picked up a friend in Gainsville and we made it to the gathering after dark around 9pm. It was raining on and off all evening so I decided to find a spot and get set up as soon as I arrived. Trying to find a spot in the dark can be a bit challenging but I...
Star Ratings on Wordpress Comments
I'm putting together a ratings and review website to compare electronic cigarettes (eCigs) and eCig suppliers. The site is built on wordpress using the GD Star Ratting plugin. For those of you who may not know about ecigs they are mechanical cigarette l
Jersy Shore to Florida
I made it to Florida but not before spending the weekend at the Tracker School during one of the strongest blizzards to have impacted the east coast in several years. The Tracker class was held at the Joseph A. Citta Boy Scout reservation in New Jersey and started on a Friday. By Saturday morning there was...
Cattail Mats
This article discusses several techniques I tried for making cattail makes and my experience with building a cattail covered wigwam.
White Mountains - Bond Clif and South Twin Mountin Trail
I considered titling this post “how not to hike the White Mountains” because to be perfectly honest while I had an unreal experience, the White Mountains kicked my ass. To anyone who would consider a journey through the White Mountains, do heed this piece of advice: pack light. My pack was way too heavy, I had fishing gear (+5lbs), loads of stove fuel(+3 lbs), a...
Aaron C Wolf is Dead
As an undergraduate at Indiana University in Bloomington during a discussion on Nietzsche I expressed an interest in dedicating a few years of my life to learning primitive living skills and “living off the land.” My professor, Chris Kerns, then Dean of the Comparative Literature Department at IU, said for a modern person to take on a hunter gatherer...
Getting Apache started on Vista when port 80 is blocked
Running Microsofts Internet Information Services (IIS) and a SQL Server on the same development box as WAMP can sometimes cause port conflicts resulting in Apache not starting. Suppose – hypothetically speaking – you’ve recently decided to spend some time setting up IIS server and an MS...
XAMPP Virtual Hosts on MAC
I recently retooled a Zend development environment on a mac laptop running OS X. I had been using the free version of MAMP for awhile but found the free version too limited. MAMP is useful for getting Apache, PHP, and MySQL stack up and working together quickly on a mac...