Clean Permalinks in b2evolution

So, Yuri, in his usual loving manner, told me that links like:

[http://[...]/index.php?title=i_pizzaiolo&tb=1&pb=1&[...]](https://web.archive.org/web/20101125074850/http://dream.sims.berkeley.edu/~jhall/nqb2/index.php?blog=5&c=1&page=1&more=1&title=i_pizzaiolo&tb=1&pb=1&disp=single)

are ridiculous and stupid. I agree but haven't had much time to look into it further. So, I've just changed how my permalinks are written from the above to:

[http://[...]/index.php/2004/12/12/i_pizzaiolo](https://web.archive.org/web/20101125074850/http://dream.sims.berkeley.edu/~jhall/nqb2/index.php/2004/12/12/i_pizzaiolo)

And, no, I did not use the kludgy mod_rewrite. If you're a b2evolution user, to enable these kinds of links, do the following:

1. In the "settings" section of your dashboard, enable the radio button that says, "Use extra-path info". This is off by default.
2. To get your permalinks to render, you'll have to tell Apache to accept path-related information through php files. Without explaining further why you need to tell Apache to do this, simply create a file called .htaccess in the home directory of your blog and include only one line that says, "AcceptPathInfo on".

How to link to me

If you link to me, you might want to consider changing "[http://dream.sims.berkeley.edu/~jhall/](https://web.archive.org/web/20101125074850/http://dream.sims.berkeley.edu/~jhall/)" to "[http://pobox.com/~joehall/](https://web.archive.org/web/20101125074850/http://pobox.com/~joehall/)". The latter will get to me, even if I change domains, until I die.