Archive For May, 2008

WordPress MU 1.5.1

The long delayed version 1.5.1 of WordPress MU has just been released. If you don’t want to read the rest of this post head to the download page and grab the zip file or tarball but make sure you come back here to read the upgrade docs. This release of the popular multi-blog version of [...]

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Twittering by voice on Twitterfone

Pat Phelan launched his new service, Twitterfone to much excitement last night. Techcrunch had the scoop and as Michael Arrington offered a free account to one of the commenters, he got some interesting responses! In the third grade, a crazy, spooky looking girl chased me with finger paint, and smeared it on my shirt, cackling [...]

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How Google Search Really Works

I’ve always wondered, ‘What really happens behind the scenes at Google when I hit the “Google Search” button?’ (via Scott)

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Macbook Porn

After I destroyed my Apple Macbook I thought I’d never get to put stickers on a Macbook again. Luckily the machine was insured and the replacement Macbook came this morning. Compared to the previous machine this one is a huge upgrade! The new Macbook has 2GB of RAM, a 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo CPU, [...]

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Taking Woopra for a test drive

John Pozadzides sent me a Woopra invite several weeks ago and I eventually signed up last week so it’s been collecting stats on this website for a while. John did an interview with Cali Lewis of Geekbrief which goes some way into explaining why Woopra is worth checking out. It was after watching that video [...]

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How to upgrade Ubuntu

I hit the Upgrade button and I presume it’s doing it’s thing. The Ubuntu 8.04 ‘Hardy Heron’ Release Notes have just popped up so it’s time to click the “Upgrade” button again. Tom has some great tips for post install configuration. I’ll be happy if SDLMame, mplayer, UAE and Vice continue to work as normal [...]

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