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WordPress 2.5 has finally been released!

I’m sure this is being covered to death but, if you haven’t heard, WordPress 2.5 is out. Some of the improvements include:

multi-file uploading
one-click plugin upgrades
built-in galleries
customizable dashboard
salted passwords and cookie encryption
media library
a WYSIWYG that doesn’t mess with your code
concurrent post editing protection
full-screen writing
search that covers posts and pages

The most significant changes are to […]

Active Denial System? Better tinfoil your gigglestick.

The military has developed a “ray gun” that supposedly is a non-lethal way to disperse angry rioters and unruly crowds. The weapon is called the “Active Denial System”. The device which is comprised of a two man crew and a large dish mounted on the roof of a Humvee directs a beam of concentrated energy […]

Sun picks up Virtual Box. Open source buying spree continues.

Sun has snapped up another open source company. In this case it is innotek. Innotek, not to be confused with the company of the same name in office space, is behind Virtual Box. Virtual Box is the open source competitor to VMware and my second favorite VM suite. Here’s hoping they get to keep their […]

Hot or Not Sold for 20 million.

Hot or not, the website where the vain among us post our pictures to let other people vote for our hotness has been acquired by a Canadian firm for a reported 20 million dollars. Now that’s hot. Hopefully some day the I’ll be able to post a similar headline about packratstudios.com. Something along the lines […]

Totally useful

There are two types of people in this world. Those who think this is a complete waist of time and money and those who think this is the coolest thing in the world. I fall in the second category. This is the world’s most powerful flash light. In fact it is going for the record. […]

WINDOWS 7, Quest for the Holy Grail?

Speculation and a leak from Microsoft just a couple weeks ago pointed towards a new M$ operating system to be released sometime in 2009. The new OS currently named Windows 7 has been in the planning stages since the release of Vista. What does this say to the people who unwisely went scurrying to the […]

“Technology overload” can ruin relationships: expert

If this is true then the first thing I am going to have to do before asking someone out is cut off their internet connection. Scratch that. I’ll google them first then cut it off. Maybe I finally found a good argument for Time Warner’s plan tiered internet pricing. Nah…..

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