Archive for March, 2008
WordPress 2.5 Released
With the release of WordPress 2.5, I quickly downloaded it and updated my blog. I must say I put a lot of faith in it, as I didn’t backup my database or files, ran the upgrade and it all worked, nothing was broken. However if you decide to upgrade, don’t take my word for it, because something may break.
The administration interface is a whole lot cleaner, everything seems just perfect 
For the people that haven’t updated yet, I highly recommend downloading WordPress 2.5.
Tags: Wordpress
TorrentSpy closes its doors
After a long, expensive two year battle with the MPAA, TorrentSpy has decided to shut down permanently. TorrentSpy was once one of the most popular sites among the BitTorrent community, but things changed after a federal judge ordered TorrentySpy to log all user data.
Justin Bunnell, founder of TorrentSpy wrote on the site:
“We have decided on our own, not due to any court order or agreement, to bring the TorrentSpy.com search engine to an end and thus we permanently closed down worldwide on March 24, 2008.”
Brokep from The Pirate Bay, another popular BitTorrent site, who has had their fair share of lawsuits, wrote this about TorrentSpy’s closure:
Today all big torrent sites are pressured somehow. TPB has its share of pressure, however we expected it and have a legal system that is more just in cases like this. The way that the copyright lobby is going at this is totally wrong and we can’t let them win. And we won’t let them win. Today we reached a loss of a site, but it was more a person having to give up for economical reasons than anything else. The copyright lobby has their big cards – money and influence. In the long run they will have to give up as well. And when they do, I’ll go to the US and buy Justin a well-deserved beer.
Tags: File Sharing, P2P
WebKit gets 100/100 Acid3 test
Well, it looks like the publicly available WebKit (Apple’s Safari) has succeded in getting 100/100 for the Acid3 test. Opera has also claimed it has reached 100/100 too, but is an internal build at the moment.
You can download the latest nightly build of WebKit (r31368 – Windows / r31370 – OS X) over on the WebKit Nightly Builds page, and you can read about it over at Surfin’ Safari. You can also view the anouncement Opera made about the Acid3 results over at the Opera Desktop Team Blog.
Unified Communications Lauch
I received my package in the mail yesterday from Microsoft, containing the Unified Communications Launch 2007 discs. The package consisted of 2 discs, containing:
Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 – Full Version
Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 – Full Version
Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 SP1 – Trial Version
Microsoft Office Live Meeting – Trial Version
It was quite a good pack from Microsoft promoting it products I will eventually get around to giving a go, in the meantime you can view some photos I took of the pack over in the Unified Communications Launch Gallery. There is also a current Microsoft Heroes Pack available, includes trial versions of Windows Server 2008 and Visual Studio 2008 which would be quite nice.
Philosophy of life
An email was going around the office at work with all kinds of jokes and stories in it, I just thought this one was good enough to share, some of you may have seen it before, those who haven’t, enjoy.
A philosophy professor stood before his class and had some items in front of him.
When the class began, wordlessly he picked up a very large and empty mayonnaise jar and proceeded to fill it with rocks, about 2″ in diameter.He then asked the students if the jar was full?
They agreed that it was.So the professor then picked up a box of pebbles and poured them into the jar. He shook the jar lightly. The pebbles, of course, rolled into the open areas between the rocks.
He then asked the students again if the jar was full.
They agreed it was.
Tags: Jokes