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Planning the WordPress upgrade
Saw that this blog was still on 2.0.4 and was going to upgrade to 2.0.6 for the security fixes and other bugfixes. However, a quick review of the wp-testers list indicated that 2.0.7 is imminent and so I’ll be holding of till that.
I still have to see if there are any issues with PHP 5.2
I am really looking forward to WordPress 2.1 slated to come towards the end of January. Might even experiment with some theme changes at that time.
David Pogue iPhone FAQ
David Pogue of the Missing Manual fame has compiled a list of frequently asked questions (FAQ) about the Apple iPhone
FAQ is available at David’s blog
Was it MacWorld or iWorld ?
As someone who regularly follows the RDF (Reality Distortion Field) emanating from his Steveness, I was looking forward to yesterday’s keynote with particular interest on what would be announced for Leopard (MacOSX 10.5) and iWork (whether a spreadsheet app would show up or not)
Though I was personally disappointed with the keynote (only the AppleTV and iPhone) was announced (I thought the one more thing would a Quad Core iMac 🙂
I can see why Steve Jobs decided to keep the entire focus on the iPhone. I don’t know how the impact of having the phone exclusive to Cingular would be and the phone is arriving in Asia only in 2008. The lack of 3G of the phone might also hurt its chances in Asia.
What I think is going to be very intersting is that the phone is stated to run MacOSX, now it’s not clear if this means that standard MacOSX programs will run on it. If it does then its a major thing.
But this does mean that developers will have to seriously ramp up Safari/Webkit testing since this browser/rending engine is getting some serious uptake.
MacOSX + Parallels/Vmware Fusion is the way to go for software development/QA. I had already purchased Parallel’s last December when they were offering the one-year upgrade protection plan. Haven’t decided whether to go for an iMac or a Mac Book Pro. I am inclined for the 20″ iMac with 2GB RAM.
However, this post is being edited with Windows Live Writer beta 🙂
Samuel L Jackson would be proud of this
Samuel L Jackson who is the lead in this years most talked about cult movie “Snakes on a Plane” would be proud of this woman.
Here’s Samuel L Jackson presenting the best movie award at MTV Movie Awards 2006
Reader's Digest: So where are the rude Bombayites now ?
In a recent survey of global courtesy, Readers Digest found Bombay — now officially called Mumbai — to be the rudest city on earth.
Funny, reading through various blogs and online news report, one would think that there was an immediate transplant of residents from some other place.
Maybe this sounds selfish, but I hope that none of your loved ones were hurt, and that nobody you know personally was hurt. Obviously everyone was somebody’s loved one, and for them I am sorrowful.
One may be far away from Bombay but you can never take the Bombayite out of you
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Reader’s Digest: So where are the rude Bombayites now ?
In a recent survey of global courtesy, Readers Digest found Bombay — now officially called Mumbai — to be the rudest city on earth.
Funny, reading through various blogs and online news report, one would think that there was an immediate transplant of residents from some other place.
Maybe this sounds selfish, but I hope that none of your loved ones were hurt, and that nobody you know personally was hurt. Obviously everyone was somebody’s loved one, and for them I am sorrowful.
One may be far away from Bombay but you can never take the Bombayite out of you
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Dance lessons for 120 million?
This news about Mimi Monica Wong, the head of Private Banking for HSBC who apparently must have used some complex financial modelling tool to determine a fair value of HK$120 million for eight years of unlimited Latin dance training is causing some buzz in Hong Kong.
She is now suing her dance instructor to return the “prepaid” HK$ 62 million in advance fees because he insulted her and called her a “lazy cow”
I’m so watching Antonio Banderas “Take the Lead”, I think the ballroom dancing teacher market has a lot of room for other entrants at slightly more competitive prices 🙂
1 US$ = HK$ 7.8
Query By Example via HoudahSpot
My review of HoudahSpot as seen on MacZOT.com
One of the coolest features I liked about HoudahSpot was it’s use of Query By Example. Basically, one has to drag a file to a criteria and it will reflect the file’s property. I seem to have a found a bug in HoudahSpot with this though, dragging a file when the criteria is “Kind” wouldn’t switch the criteria over to the appropiate file type. e.g, dragging a PDF file over to Kind would just keep Kind as “Any” and not switch it to PDF as I would have expected
NOTE: If you’re seeing this on June 16, 2006 head over to MacZOT, you might be able to get a Free copy of HoudahSpot
Search easily in Tiger, Mac OS X, with HoudahSpot
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Canonical has expired SSL certificate for its release note
I hope SABDFL Mark Shuttleworth managed to retain a few of his ex-Thawte colleagues. Whilst looking at the Ubuntu download page I clicked upon the release notes which were behind this SSL link.
The certificate had expired on January 2006 and this resulted in lots of warnings from Camino. Personally, I don’t see why the release notes had to behind https unless Canonical is using this to test out the SSL offload capabilities of the Niagara.
interesting viral marketing campaign for SubEthaEdit by MacZot
I came across this very interesting viral marketing campaign run by MacZot (think of it as the Woot for Mac users) for SubEthaEdit from Coding Monkeys (the collaborative text editor)
MacZOT and TheCodingMonkeys will award $105,000 in Mac software
This is how they are doing it
BlogZOT! uses the power of blogs to create value for all Mac users. In today’s example: Each qualified blog entry reduces the price of SubEthaEdit from $30.00 to $0.00 by $0.05 per entry. For each entry, that’s $166+ given back to the Mac community.
BlogZOT instructions. Please READ them as we won’t have time to answer emails about BlogZOT until after it’s over.
1. You can purchase SubEthaEdit on MacZOT.com at anytime today using the Buy button above at the current price.
2. If you’d rather pay less, you can help by getting bloggers to post a comment about SubEthaEdit being the BlogZOT 2.0 on MacZOT.com
3. BlogZOT 2.0 will run until the end of the day 11:59 pm in California or until 3,000 copies of SubEthaEdit have been awarded to BlogZOT participants.
4. Bloggers who participate and enter a working email will receive a SubEthaEdit registration if the goal of reducing the price to $0.00 is accomplished.
I’ve been using SubEthaEdit 2.2 on and off. This is the last version which was free for non-commercial use. It’s a nice text editor but I really haven’t had the chance to play with the collaborative side of things. I think this viral marketing campaign will go a long way in improving SubEthaEdit’s reach
Yusuf Goolamabbas 