Awesome! WordPress has just released the release candidate of WordPress 2.8, which seems to contain an awesome amount of improvements over WordPress 2.7 (most of them subtle and unexposed to the end user). I’ve been running the trunk version of WordPress for months now, and I have to say that WordPress 2.8 is stable and usable.
If you want to stay up-to-date with WordPress, you can try running it from SVN. I’ll post a little guide on how I do it soon.
No, I’m not dead. My last post was published quite a while ago, but I’m still alive and well — for the most part.
Concerning the human swine flu, it’s important to note that hype and paranoia may not really be that far from the truth. It is a serious health risk, and the World Health Organization recently issued a level 4 alert.
At least the City of Toronto has no known swine flu cases thus far.
Stay safe and be careful!
Where do you see yourself?
That’s the slogan for Mercedes-Benz’s new midsized, premium sports utility vehicle, the Mercedes GLK. This is clearly a car for those who love style, comfort and elegance — concepts shared by Mercedes’ new mini-site promoting the GLK.
The promotional mini-site is actually rather artistic. A fully Flash-based site, it is amazing in usability and experience, as I might expect the GLK to be. The site has a few major sections, which include a place to ‘watch’ — that is, to look at high quality photographs and promotional videos for the car —, a place to learn — that is, to review information about the car —, and a place to ‘create’, which apparently means to answer a very short personality quiz to create a background image that remains consistent throughout the site. (There’s also a feature to download that background to use as a wallpaper image.)
Prospective buyers will get all the technical information and product insights that they need from this GLK mini-site. While being dazzled by the site’s amazing functionality, high-res pictures and persuasive commercials, buyers can still get what they need to know about this new model from one of the world’s most reputable high end automaker.
In times like these, you want a fuel-efficient vehicle that will reliably stay with you for years to come.
I’m going to be taking a short break from blogging for about two weeks. In the meantime, I’ll go back to updating Twitter.
This is not going to be an extended hiatus. I will be back!
It’s nearly the end of 2008, and that means lists, lists, lists. All the magazines and newspapers, and some blogs, are coming out with lists of top ten books from 2008, best inventions, etc… you get the idea.
I thought that I would post something of the sort too, with lists about this blog, lists about people, maybe even a list about events in my life this year… and I thought that I would publish it.
(read more after the jump)
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I will be gone (as in “out of the country”) for the next week or so, so there will be no blog posts or Frederick Time episodes until at least Monday. Don’t ask me where I’m going. (Suffice it to say that I will be out of reach and “offline”.)
However, if you’d like to keep track of me in a stalker-ish way, follow me on Twitter (it’s even better if you have an account and you click “Follow”). I will use my cell phone to send text messages that will hopefully keep you appeased of what I’m doing and where I am (in a non-specific way).
At the same time, let’s welcome Brandon who is in Canada as part of an exchange program.
If you’re looking for something to read in the meantime, see “Why Kosovo Was And Always Will Be Serbian” or “Georgia-Russia Conflict” from two friends who are ethnically linked to the issues at hand, and who offer insightful perspectives.
Finally, I’d like to apologize for being part of “Western media” when it comes to my podcast’s coverage of the Georgia-Russia conflict. I did try to present both sides or multiple points of view, but I really didn’t know what to believe… thanks to the terribly influential and often deceptive Western media.
I’ve finally resolved to create a “personal” blog on PersonalLog. Honestly, I’m operating 3 other WordPress-powered sites at the moment: Geekie.org, PersonalLog, and RHHS-RASA.ca. Oh, and the Demo Blog @ PersonalLog, which demonstrates features of our service. I didn’t see the need for a blog of my own, discussing anything I wanted.
Recently, however, I realized that the focus of Geekie.org has widened to things beyond “geekie” interests. Lunar eclipses, for instance. Thus, I felt that a personal blog for myself, not following a clear-cut focus like technology, was suitable. Of course, technological developments will still be on Geekie.org.
This blog also gives me the opportunity to test out my innovations on PersonalLog without interfering with someone else’s work. I no longer need to experiment on the Demo Blog, or take a risk by applying changes to the home page.
Besides, I also have a Blogger blog, set up yesterday to allow me to compare. So far, I’m far too fond of WordPress to use Blogger!
