Just got the Wordpress app installed and configured on my iPod Touch.
Does this mean I will write more? Unlikely. While I’ve gotten quite good at typing on the touch, this hardly feels like the right interface for long-form posting.
FYI – getting good typing on the touch basically means relying on Apple’s auto-correction system, ignoring the urge to make sure you’ve types each character properly, and just plowing through.
After a brief stint using wordpress.com, I’ve once again moved my blog back to my own hosting. I stopped using my own install of wordpress because of the fairly constant security vulnerability upgrades and extremely painful upgrade process.
Wordpress Version 2.7, released Dec. 11th, 2008, promises an integrated upgrade process:
We heard how tired you were of doing upgrades for yourself and your friends, so now WordPress includes a built-in upgrade that will automatically notify you of new releases, and when you’re ready it will download them, install them, and upgrade your blog with a single click. [Wordpress.org]
My preference would actually be to have a Wordpress-mu install to host a number of different blogs me and Ainsley have, with the same one-click upgrade option, but mu has yet to be updated to reflect the wordpres 2.7 changes. Furthermore, the whole wordpress-mu project feels like a hack upon an hack, despite the fact that it’s the engine powering Wordpress.com.
I may get around to retheming at some point, but for now the inove theme suits me fine enough.
Just in time for my birthday! :)
Under a new consumer protection regulation, businesses in Ontario will have to eliminate expiry dates on gift cards — plastic cards loaded with cash value — as of October 1.
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I was in the grocery store the other day and I once again noticed that certain cereals only seem to be available in the small-sized boxes. Golden Grahams, Honey Bunches of Oats, that Raisin Bran Crunch stuff, they all only ever seem to be available in the small thin boxes. Are they afraid we’re going to cram too much graham?
At E3 yesterday Sony tossed aside the boomerang controller shown at last years E3 and introduced their new… well… updated controller, which can be described as:
PS3 Controller = PS2 Dualshock Controller + Axis-tilt Sensing gyros – Dualshock
The Joystiq guys rushed from the Sony announcement yesterday to the sony Booth and managed to get some hands-on time with the new controller:
Immediately following the Sony keynote, we pushed and shoved our way to a quick and dirty session with the new PS3 controller. Warhawk was the only playable demo touting six-axis sensing functionality; so naturally, our destination was the setup featuring that game.
So what did they think? Basically:
Read the full review [joystiq.com].
This is just hilarious… I love the despair the b&w aspect adds to it all…
We went to Disneyworld today and it’s supposedly the happiest place on eartth, it looked more like people were in hell.
sThig’s Our Orlando Vacation: Day 3 “The Happiest Place on Earth” slideshow on Flickr
Dave: Look, I’m really sorry Bill.
Bill: That’s okay, you’re heart was in the right place.Dave: But I had no idea that the patch could have side effects.
Bill: And I had no idea that you’re only supposed to wear one at a time.Dave: Well, how many were you wearing?
Bill: Fifteen, sixteen. I stuck them all around my waist like a belt.Dave: Well the important thing is that you’re feeling okay now.
Bill: Yeah, but there are a few lingering effects. But you shouldn’t worry about that.Dave: Oh, what is it?
Bill: I’d rather not say.Dave: Anything I can do to help.
Bill: It smells like an ashtray when I pee. Anything you can do to help me with that?Dave: Gosh I hope not.
I can’t wait for the Newsradio Season 1 & 2 DVDs to ship.
Someday… someday… :(
From Engadget.com:
This goes out to the reverse switchers among you, who want to set up those two 30-inch Apple Cinema Displays you happen to have lying around (don’t we all?) to work with your Windows machine. This guide explains everything you’ll need, including which obscure graphics cards will support this configuration and a step-by-step of how to get it all going, which isn’t quite as easy as plug and play. When you’re done, you’ll have so much freakin’ screen real estate you’ll be able to rent some out.
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So blogger has rolled out auto-save in their new post interface. I think a lot of people have experienced the joys of having your browser crash while you’ve had a new webmail or new blog posting page up. It can be really frustrating. So this is a great feature. Mind you, I’ve had textbox crash recovery for a while thanks to “crash recovery“, a wonderful firefox extension. For people yet to jump onto the Firefox bandwagon though, this is a great feature.
From Blogger Buzz:
You will be so what? Frustrated? Wrong! You won’t care because all
you need to do is start it up again and click ‘Recover post.’ Blogger
now auto-saves as you type. (We just launched this feature today so you
may need to reload you new post window to see it.)Update: Blogger Help article on recover post.”
Last night as I was going to bed I noticed a bunch of smoke billowing from behind a building a block or two away. As I was watching I saw the whole block near the smoke suddenly lose power. Since it was late though, I went to bed (FYI: the flashing lights all around the block told me that the fire had already been reported).
This morning I woke up and checked some news sources online and sure enough a few places had reported that a fire had destroyed a 3-storey building in my neighborhood overnight…
From ottawa.cbc.ca:
OTTAWA – A portion of Ottawa’s downtown was a mess of water and smoke Wednesday morning as a major fire destroyed a three-storey building at the intersection of Florence and Bank streets, about a block south of Barrymore’s.
Dozens of firefighters worked to contain the fire that broke out at about 2 a.m. It was extinguished by 8 a.m., and the building was a smouldering ruin.
There was a Milano’s Pizza on the ground floor, with several apartments above it.
Thirteen people have been left homeless by the fire, but were unhurt. The Red Cross and Salvation Army have placed some of them in a local hotel.
One thing all the articles were missing, however, were pictures… So I grabbed my POS camera and headed out around 11am this morning (note: the above article has since been updated to show a few pictures of the aftermath). Click the photo below to go to my gallery of the pictures I took.
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