Season 8 Show 1 Pre-show Predictions

It’s t-minus 3.2 hours until showtime and here are my predictions for tonight’s show:

Top 3: Danny Gokey, Anoop Desai, and Stevie Wright

Someone will forget their words tonight.

Tatiana Del Toro will:

  1. Be reduced to tears.
  2. Continue to sing at some point.
  3. Be the worst singer of the night.

Jesse Petersen has spoken.

How to Automate your WordPress Site’s Copyright Dates.

I have been going through my numerous sites gasping at all of the footer copyrights that still say “2008” and are also annoying me that they don’t show my first date of copyright. Well, don’t let it happen to you next year. Plug this into your footer template and make a copy of the code in a text file in case you switch themes before next year:

get_results("SELECT YEAR(min(post_date_gmt)) AS firstyear, YEAR(max(post_date_gmt)) AS lastyear FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE post_date_gmt > 1970");
			if ($post_datetimes) {
				$firstpost_year = $post_datetimes[0]->firstyear;
				$lastpost_year = $post_datetimes[0]->lastyear;

				$copyright = __('Copyright © ', 'jesse') . $firstpost_year;
				if($firstpost_year != $lastpost_year) {
					$copyright .= '-'. $lastpost_year;
				}
				$copyright .= ' ';

				echo $copyright;
				bloginfo('name');
			}
		?>

American Idol Season 8 – Group 1 – Show 1

Hollywood Hell Week is over and we witnessed an anguishing 2 hour final paring down of the final 36 that got some definitive losers in rather than more capable singers and personalities. I have a few targets right off the bat, but none more passionately than getting Tatiana Del Toro booted ASAP. She’s already gotten on my nerves more than Brooke did last season.

My faves for Group 1: Danny Gokey, Anoop Desai, and Stevie Wright. The guys have way more skill this year than the girls, so you’re going to see a lot more positive votes from me for the guys for Season 8.

Here is a quick run-down of Group 1 for Tuesday’s show:

Alexis Grace – 20
Anne Marie Boskovich -22
Anoop Desai – 21
Brent Keith – 28
Casey Carlson – 20
Danny Gokey – 28
Jackie Tohn – 27
Matt Breitzke – 27
Ricky Braddy – 25
Stephen Fowler – 26
Stevie Wright – 16
Tatiana Nicole Del Toro – 24

Don’t Put That Ring There

I got this video link from @themanregistry on Twitter following our tweets about the “two month rule” for determining how much to spend on an engagement ring. He sent me this saying he hoped this guy didn’t follow that rule.