WordPress 3.3.1 was released today. This latest version of wordpress comes fresh of the heels of the 3.3 release and fixes 15 issues including a security vulnerability fix which WordPress doesn’t fully disclose. WordPress admins should see the prompt to update their blogs, and a update can be done fairly quickly via the automated update from within the admin panel itself. One thing that...
File Sharing seems to be the next big thing , with email servers hitting maximum attachment sizes of 50MB pretty often, a lot of professionals are opting for web-based file sharing services. I previously wrote about how much I loved the interface at ge.tt, plus I absolutely adore it’s name. With more and more competition out there to share your files, what’s a poor danish company to...
A couple of hundred years ago, if you wanted to find out what was inside a horses mouth, you’d go to a quite corner and sit for a while and contemplate what was in a horses mouth. This sounds anathema to anyone reading a blog in the 21st century, but it was quite common in the days of Aristotle. Our brains are hard-wired for imagination, in fact happiness expert Daniel Gilbert actually goes...
About 2 years ago if you typed “miserable failure” on Google the first listed webpage would be the wikipedia entry for President George W. Bush, apparently a few guys found out how Google ranks their pages and decided (with a little help from friends) to push up the GWBs Wikipedia page for the search entry “miserable failure”. Google has since changed it’s algorithm...
Trey Ratcliff is a professional photographer who photographs ooze with talent, he also blogs at stuckincustoms.com. It’s an amazing blog, but what’s even more amazing is that Trey chooses to release his works of art under the creative commons non-commercial license, which has it’s restrictions but allows free usage of the photos as long as its used for non-commercial purposes...
In 2009 I did a year in review and today (on Christmas Eve), I’m hoping to look back at my year and savor my accomplishments and even failures in preparation for my next project which I’m hoping to commence next year. So most of time this year was spent doing many things, among others I moved out of my parents place into a new house I bought, while this may sound strange to most...
In what I hope is my last post about this ridiculous bill, I hope to ask and answer an important question I’m surprised no one has asked yet… Why do we need such a bill? In essence do we need to raise standards, or provide assurance to employers regarding hired professionals. I believe the answer is NO. It all stems from a brilliant book I read “start with Why” by Simon...
If the 5 of you can’t decide where to eat lunch without saying the dreaded words “up to you”, how in world can 100,000 or even 1 million people combine together to solve a problem? The answer is through a mixture of the right collaborative systems enabled by the right technology and people with the right skill-sets motivated by the right things. Get all 4 components right, and...
My blog & name was mentioned on BFMs tech talk today. Woo hoo!! I’m so happy!! You can download the podcast of the show at BFMs website here , and it’s fantastic (partially because it mentions my blog). So while MOSTI still hasn’t given up on the bill, apparently no one in the Industry wants the bill except MOSTI, and they’re just a Government Ministry. Where were the...
So there’s a lot being said about the new Computing professional bill, even on this blog. For now though, if you’re really interested in finding out about the legal implications of the law, check out this amazing article here from the Bar Council Website written by ‘The Awesome’ LoyarBurok. Or if you’re in the mood for some petition, try signing this petition here...