The Week The Women Went

Many of you know that I was born and raised 30 minutes from Hardisty, Alberta and it was still a shock to find out that they filmed a CBC reality show called “The Week The Women Went” there. It is even more amazing to me how many of the people in the show I actually know. Even more amazing yet is how stunningly nice the town looks now (yes, you have to watch the show to find out) or be like me and just go there
The show has now aired 2 episodes and is extremely funny. It has its own facebook group as well and even its own blog from CBC. The blog itself is pretty darn funny when you actually spend the time reading it.

So what is this show really about? From the Facebook Group:

This is a weekly show on Monday evenings. CBC has filmed the lives of 117 women and their families living in Hardisty, Alberta. The women have left Hardisty for a one week paid holiday and the Husbands, Ex-Husbands, and Boyfriends are responsible for looking after the town and the children!

The women actually leave and head to Canmore, Alberta near the Banff National Park. Great show!   So why Hardisty?   They explain that in the CBC link in the first sentence of this blog, but we all know that since Doug Griffith is in it, he most likely applied for a grant to fix the town and ended up with this.    That is pure speculation on my part, but good on you Doug!

It is amazing to me that I grew up so close to Hardisty and it gets some fame. I actually lived in Cochrane near Canmore. Still gets me that I live so darn close to where Nickelback grew up. Good times. Good times!

When The Cat’s Away….

Thanks for the email on this one Anne!

I Am Canadian

Really interesting tonight going through some of the commercials that Molson put out for their beer, Canadian.    I have been enough places around the world that I have seen the stereotypes:

While I can see that resorting to our heritage of hocking fighting might not be the best remedy, we can always sick them with our pets:

We all know where it started, with that one commercial that got the nation going:

I spent enough time travelling to know that the flag on the backpack doesn’t hurt with the ladies:

Yes, I am Canadian! 

WP Super Cache!

While having a discussion with Adam about the possible issues of MT hosting without some sort of cache plugin, I decided that I better install WP Super Cache on my server. The way it works is that regular members and commenting visitors will get a dynamically generated page like normal and the majority of the traffic will get static cached pages that are refreshed periodically. It is now site wide on my server. As Donncha mentions on his site”

WP Super Cache is a static caching plugin for WordPress. It generates html files that are served directly by Apache without processing comparatively heavy PHP scripts. By using this plugin you will speed up your WordPress blog significantly.

There are real examples of sites going down if they manage to get a post into sites like Digg, Slashdot and other social networking sites due to massive traffic spikes. While this plugin will never be a substitute for having a poor host, it does guard against massive site traffic spikes. As as Donncha mentions in his own words”

under high load, serving static html files will always trump dynamic PHP requests

Funny Advertising!

A good friend of mine is doing a little advertising here in Alberta for his custom feedyard for cattle.    I haven’t seen the ad in Alberta Beef Magazine yet, but I guess it is there and also will be featured in the Alberta Cattle Feeders conference again this year.     I couldn’t help myself, so I thought I would post it here (with his permission) !

I would also like to apologize for those that came to my site in the past couple of days and saw the kubrick theme and nothing really else!    I recently moved my server over to Media Temple and was having a slow DNS change.    Nothing really against Dreamhost (which I still have serveral domains running) but this WPMU install was going to kill the server without having more resources.    I just averted a disaster in advance

Wordpress.com Anniversary

I was doing some checking and it turns out that exactly 1 year ago I made this post and it was the first one ever for me on wordpress.com. Since then, I have averaged 5 posts a day. Seems like a long time ago now I love helping people and you will see me if you spend time in the wordpress.com forums!

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