Published February 22nd, 2007
in Admin Tools, Blogging, Downloads and Utilities.
For those of you who run your own blogs, and take care of the updates yourselves, I’ve created a Wordpress Upgrade script. Note: This is a Linux/Unix/Mac OS X shell script, not a Windows batch file.
The script is very simple:
Download the latest Wordpress archive from the website
Uncompress it to a temporary location
Migrate all of […]
Published February 18th, 2007
in Google, Open Source and Utilities.
With the advent of Google’s GMail a few years ago, and their explosive increase to 1GB (and subsequently 2GB) of storage in 2005 it was only a matter of time until they opened up the API to allow people to take advantage of GMail’s features.
Enter a series of add-ons for various […]
Published February 17th, 2007
in Editorials, MacBook and Utilities.
OK, I know the term is unlikely to catch on, but the fact remains that people in less populous time zones are often shafted by those who live in larger population centres. In North America, that typically means those on the east coast ignore us westerners (see Western Alienation).
Members of the media are […]
Published February 14th, 2007
in Blogging, Futurism, Podcasting, Technology and Web 2.0.
This is a simple, and very effective summary of how Web 2.0 is changing the way we manage knowledge in the 21st century.
Video on YouTube
Though it doesn’t get into great detail about the specifics of Web 2.0, it provides some points for thought around how we interact with the web today, and how it […]
Published February 10th, 2007
in Canucks, Hockey, Miscellany and Movies.
The new myNHL advertising campaign has a couple of new spokesmen: the Sedins! Starting next week a new commercial for the NHL will debut on national TV. It was shown for the first time tonight on Hockey Night in Canada.
Check out the “Swedish Twins” spot right now on Canucks.com!
This ad is quite […]
Published February 10th, 2007
in Astronomy.
Though it’s not really a big news story, the image just looked too cool to pass up. The image is of galactic cluster Abell s0740 which lies some 450 Million Light years from our little rock. What’s amazing to me in this picture is the level of detail that the Hubble telescope […]
Published February 3rd, 2007
in Development, Editorials, Programming and Technology.
These two platforms have been fiercely competing for the lucrative “Enterprise” business customers since the .NET Framework made it’s Beta debut in late 2001. Since that time the debate has raged on in organizations of every size and in Internet forums of every description: Which platform is the best platform?
Pundits from all sectors […]