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Entries from August 2008

Windows ME & The Ballmer Peak

September 30th, 2007 · No Comments

OK, I realize I don’t post up silly stuff very often (some would say not often enough), but when I read tonight’s xkcd comic, I burst out laughing.  I have a bit of a hate on for Windows ME, and when I read this… well lets just say that could have been me sitting in [...]

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Tags: Funny · Microsoft

Creative Complicated?

September 28th, 2007 · 1 Comment

The issue of copyright law has never been a simple one. This week a family from Texas has launched a lawsuit against Virgin Mobile for the use of their daughter’s picture in an advertising campaign. The catch? The mobile carrier got the photo from Flickr where the photo (at the time) was [...]

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Tags: Blogging · Internet · News · Podcasting · Soapbox · Tech News · Web 2.0

Wordpress 2.3 Released — Changes Iminent

September 25th, 2007 · 2 Comments

Wordpress 2.3 was released today.  I’ve been looking through the specs, and the upgrade sheets to see what the major new features are.  I expect to apply the new update in the next week or so.  I’m working on a new upgrade script that will use the wordpress subversion repository for the source, instead of [...]

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Tags: Blogging · Open Source · Tech News · Web 2.0

Random Image Plugin — 1000 Downloads!

September 25th, 2007 · 3 Comments

Exactly 2 months ago, I released my Random Image Selector plugin for wordpress.  Every now and again I take a look and see how many people are downloading the random image plugin.
On average, in the exactly 2 months since it’s release about 15 people are downloading the plugin.  And on September 22nd, it hit the [...]

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Tags: Blogging · Development · Downloads · Open Source · Programming · Web 2.0 · Wordpress Plugins

Mac Lab Rat #9 - Global Geek Podcast

September 24th, 2007 · 4 Comments

This week marked my first appearance on the GGP as a full-fledged guest host.  We had a great time recording the show despite Tim’s headset being all fubar.  Here’s the notes from this week’s edition, it’s a short one, so don’t blink or you’ll miss it. 
The first app up this week is an [...]

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Tags: Global Geek Podcast · Mac Lab Rat · Podcasting

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