WordPress Issues

WordPress 2.6.3

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Do you know what pisses me off? It’s the regularity of a WordPress upgrade! You know, it was just a couple of days ago when I installed WordPress 2.6.2 on my new WordPress driven website and even before I have finished adding all the content to my new website, I see a notice about a new version of WordPress.

I know, I know. I know you’d probably tell me that a new version will come with better features and security but I tell you, since the day I started hosting my own WordPress powered blogs, I have been upgrading and upgrading. I think I have done so for ten times already. If you think that ten times is nothing, don’t forget that I host multiple blogs and I have to repeat the same process over and over again. It just drives me crazy, man! And to think that if I had just set up my website today, I would have the latest version of WordPress already!

In any case, I will not be upgrading so soon because new versions almost always come with bugs and security holes and then you would have to spend more time doing the technical stuff of your blog to patch those security holes; time that I think should be better spent blogging!

Computing & Internet

Arbune.com Rewards

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A few short years ago, I was a forum junkie. I practically spent every minute of my online time in a forum. The forum wasn’t that interesting, now that I think of that, and I wasted a lot of time there for nothing except for some great friendships!

Today, I was told of a forum that members could actually win some cash. Sure, I do know of some forums that reward their members but no way am I going to hang around those forums for just a cent or two.

Arbune.Com, though, is entirely different. They award cash prizes as much as US$50 for the member who had the most interesting topic, based on the highest number of replies. The member who managed to refer the most friends would also win some cold hard cash.

You may think that you would rather earn a few cents here and there in a forum rather than have the odd chance of winning only if you are the “best” but don’t you think this is more challenging? Members make their own chances.

As an Arbune.com member, you also have the opportunity to post free ads. This just reminds me of the time I was banned from a forum for life after posting an ad. Arbune.com may be fairly new but I think that it’s a good opportunity to join a forum early and grow with it.

Check out Arbune.com. It’d be easy to win some cash since there are still not that many members! LOL

Computing & Internet

150,000 Submissions To Google’s Project 10^100

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So submission for Google’s Project 10^100 (Project 10 to the 100th) is closed on Monday. Did you manage to put in an idea? The winning ideas, up to five of them, would receive funding from a pool of US$10 million. This means that if the judges decide that only one project is worthy to be implemented, the winner will receive the whole amount. If they select five ideas to fulfill, that’s Google’s maximum, each project will only receive a maximum of US$2 million in funding.

I am a little surprised that Project 10^100 only received 150,000 submissions worldwide in total considering that the website of Project 10^100 received approximately 2.5 million unique visitors in the past month. I guess many people were curious about it, checked to see if they have an idea to submit and totally forgot about it, or failed to come up with an idea. I, myself, sent out the link to the website to a few friends.

Google will be short listing the 150,000 entries into 100 which will be posted online on their Project 10^100 website at http://www.project10tothe100.com/ on 27th January, 2009. Web users will then vote for the best ideas. I wonder if we would only be able to vote once per Gmail account, or whatever. I mean, there would be crazy people setting up hundreds, if not thousands of accounts just so that they could vote for their own project, you know?

Twenty ideas with the top votes will be put forward to a panel of yet to be named judges who would then select up to five “best” ideas that would positively impact the world population the most.

Technology

Impressive Satellite Navigation Device

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A couple of days ago, I invited my friend from out of state to visit me at a religious festival that was held in my hometown. Although my friend is quite familiar with my city, he is not familiar with the area where the festival would be held.

Luckily my friend is very technology savvy. I provided him with the approximate satellite coordinates and prayed that he would not get lost. Actually, I felt kind of bad that I was only able to provide him with an APPROXIMATE reading but he keyed that into his Sat Nav and managed to find his way to me.

My friends over here were very surprised and complimented him on how smart he is! I think the smart one should be his Sat Nav! He took me out for a drive to show me the capabilities of his Sat Nav and I was totally impressed considering that my friend has never been here before. The Sat Nav was able to direct my friend to his intended destination with turn-by-turn instructions and even knows which roads are one-way streets. We were also able to locate a 7-11 along the way.

It’s a good thing that satellite navigation devices are very affordable now. I would buy one myself when I have my own car. You know how hopeless I am with directions. I even got lost once in my own city!

Computing & Internet

Building A WordPress Powered Website

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If you have read a couple of my posts last week, you would know that I wanted to build a charity website. I asked a few friends for help because I have very slight knowledge of building a conventional website, despite having one myself.

Well, everyone was reluctant to help, even though it’s a charity, non-profit website. Well, I don’t blame them. Who would want to spend time doing something that wouldn’t turn a profit, right?

However, even though they were not willing to help me with the website, they did advise that I should build a WordPress powered website. Since I am already familiar with WordPress, it should be a whole lot easier for me to build and maintain. According to them, it would be like setting up a blog, which I have done many times over, and it is just a matter of finding a WordPress theme that would suit my needs.

I took up their suggestion and voila, I really did “build” a website in just minutes. LOL I don’t know if you would consider that “cheating” but I was damn happy that I need not have to beg for help, which I would have to do if I were to build a conventional website.

Computing & Internet

Messed Up iGoogle

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A few days ago, my friend told me that she hates the new iGoogle and that her Google homepage is so messy now. I thought that she was just fussy. Well, I just checked the Google message board not too long ago and it looks like she is not alone.

I know how I hate it to be faced with a changed layout without prior notice, like I mentioned in my post about the new Yahoo! Profiles. It looks like Google also was preposterous enough to implement new changes without prior notice and like Yahoo! does not allow users to revert to the old layout while the work out the kinks, unlike eBay.

All the complaints do not mean that people are people are not receptive of change, like Facebook users. They just hate the new layout, plain and simple, even though there were no glitches as far as I could see. Still, if Google had allowed users to opt for the old layout for the time being, I believe that once they have everything sorted out, users could gladly use the new iGoogle, and not threaten to boycott all Google products.

Boy, am I glad that I don’t use iGoogle at all or I would have another problem on my hands building a new Google homepage.

General

Comparing Online Casino Bonuses

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A friend told me that now that economy is poor, many of his friends are trying their luck in online casinos. I don’t know if that’s normal behavior or if that’s even the right approach but I did warn him that before committing time, energy and money in online casinos, he should do as much reading, researching and comparing as he possibly could. It’s only to his own benefit, right?

I could provide him with a list of top online casinos or let him know which are the best online casinos but what I think are good for me may not be good for him because we are always seeking different things. I did, however, tell him to double check the list of USA online casinos to ensure that they accept US players. I am sure he does not want to be on the wrong side of the law!

I also told him that most online casinos offer huge bonuses but some bonuses are larger than others, so he would need to make a comparison too. Luckily thing he does not have to do it himself as websites like All Casino Bonuses has a pretty comprehensive bonus chart that makes it easy for him to compare online casino bonuses at a glance.

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