Not too bad, I guess. Considering the amount of changes recently in WPMU the upgrade this evening went rather well! If you spot anything breaking here I’d really appreciate a comment on this post!
Later… Not quite as painless but I may have tracked down the major bugs. It’ll also help me resolve issues with the current release of WPMU. So far, the only outstanding issue is the search engine – blog authors, edit your site template and add “/index.php” to the “action” part of the search form so it looks like the following:
<form id="searchform" method="get" action="{$siteurl}/index.php">
Author Archives: Donncha
Salon – the story of their subcess
Here’s a very interesting interview with the Senior VP of Marketing in Salon about their success with subscription only content. Good read for anyone charging for content on the Internet. (via a.wholelottanothing)
photoSIG – Wet And Happy
s c i z z o . g i m p . o r g – lots of GIMP stuff!
s c i z z o has loads of GIMP stuff on his site – tutorials, links, etc. Hmm, His Paths Basics article is enlightening!
UF – Sensible Photos?
Hehe.. I like today’s UserFriendly comic, but who wants to take sensible photos? bbboooorrrriiiiinnnnggggg! 🙂
U.S. National Debt – Castro has the Trillion Dollar Bill!
Last night Sky showed that Simpson’s episode where Homer worked for the IRS to spy on his friends and eventually found out that Burns had a Trillion Dollar Bill given to him at the end of WWII to give to the French.
Looks like the U.S. National Debt could do with that bill now eh?
Let’s hope the Chinese don’t go looking for their money back soon!
Phishing Scams – 3 stories
3 scary phishing stories from the Washington Post:
Extended Depth Of Field Using Panorama Tools
Digital Camera Tips a.k.a. Using GIMP for Digital Photography
This short guide is useful if you’re starting out in digital photography. I’ll have to try his sharpening suggestions as I usually use the following when sharpening images for this site: Radius 0.1, Amount 0.50, Threshold 4
Professional Photographers Using Linux?
In this Ask Slashdot Question, like so many others, the question/headline is misleading. It asks about scanning slides, and no matter what type of OS you use, if you use cheap hardware you’re not going to get great results. Still, take a look at the comments for more.