Here’s a thoughtful piece on the future of personal media publishing.
What happens when Iraqis start posting pictures on a (soon to be) popular photo portal where it is easy for Americans (geeks now, general populace to come soon) to find them? What happens when pro- and anti-occupation Iraqis start posting graphic pictures to make their points?
I subscribed FF Sage to the Iraq tag on Flickr.. it’s fascinating seeing the images popup in my aggregator!
How do you find security risks on your site? use Google! That’s how! Well, possibly not.
Here’s a guide to exploiting PHP applications. Hmm. Must read.
Gift Grub on Today FM is a national institution by this stage, and it’s brand of humour is legendary! You can listen to past episodes on their website, and I recommend the Hector & Tom Cruise one. Great ending to it!
This site for reading later.
Despite all that his family did to publicize his plight, how others others protested and tried to get help for him, and the fact that the Irish Government issued him with an Irish passport, Ken Bigley was executed yesterday afternoon.
The same on Aljazeera.com.
Commenting on the new report, Paul Bigley said: “I have heard nothing at all.
“I have been optimistic and remain optimistic.”
Paul said he was praying the news turn out to be untrue.
Now, this is a bit of a downer. LiveSearch looks like an excellent way to search because, as you type search results pop up magically!
Unfortunately it’s licensed under the Apache 2.0 License which is incompatible with the GPL, the license uner which WordPress is distributed. It would be legal to use it here without distributing those modifications, but that’s of no use to anyone else and I don’t want to maintain yet another source tree! Time to talk to the author…
I just noticed, CollyLogic has a “Live Preview” of your comment as you type it. That’s nice!
Here’s what it looks like in action! (via the support forum.)
Here’s another minor release, but with a few changes:
/pages/name where “name” is the name of your page.Download it from here: http://mu.wordpress.org/download/
From a question in the comments on adding new blogs, here’s how to do it:
1. Say your new blog will be called “test”, create a directory in wp-inst/wp-blogs/ called test. Fill that directory with the follow directories: templates, template_c, smartycache. All should be writeable by the webserver. Also copy the wp-config.php from ../main/ and customize to your needs (ie. the database table prefix should be changed to “wp_test_”)
2. Create a symlink to that “test” directory in the “blogs” directory that’s in the same directory as wp-inst. (I need to remove this requirement real soon!)
3. Open up http://yourhost/path/test/wp-admin/install.php to configure and setup the database.
4. You’ll probably have to compare the “options” tables of the new blog and your “main” blog as some entries there will have to be updated.
The GPL has been described as a virus by many pundits in the past, and it now looks like Clamav thinks so too! hehe. (Thanks Padraig for posting that link!)
Someone asked for a photoshop plugin to make skin shine and instead got something more useful – a description of how to do it. I’m going to grab some portraits and apply this to them!
How Does One Keep Up? – how many computer languages and concepts have you learned and abandoned in your career? How often do you think you’ll do the same in the future?
Unless you work on Cobol then you’re probably like me and Tom and you’ve gone through several iterations – 6502, 8×86, 68000 Assembly, Pascal, C, C++, PHP, etc etc..
It scared me at one stage but now it’s fascinating.. all this new stuff to learn and find out about! Woo!
This article on technomasochism is more relevant to all you UI watchers.. how much pain will users put up with? Quite a lot in my experiences!