Archive | January, 2007

New Microsoft Live Mail: The opinion of a non-techie

My wife felt compelled to share this feedback with Microsoft Live. This is what she thinks of the new look of Hotmail and how this transition has been a big waste of time for her. She just wants to be able to login and check her email. Is that too much to ask from Microsoft? [...]

This I Believe: Isabel Allende

This is the first episode of a lovely series of essays by NPR. Isabel Allende revived this famous series of the 1950′s and gave it new life by providing the first essay. The series now has over 70 essays from all kinds of people from all walks of life. Men and women with a passion [...]

WordPress 2.0.6 Released – the last one before 2.1

Automattic released it’s new version of WordPress today. 2.0.6 contains security fixes, and other notable updates. This release will be the last until 2.1 (which is in beta) comes out. Although they are planning to keep 2.0.x active for Debian, they will update at a faster pace for 2.1. Check Mark Jaquith’s site for the [...]

Google Code Jam LatinAmerica ‘07 – Open

Enter Google Code Jam Latin America 2007, a timed online competition between the region’s most talented coders. Pick your programming language, use your coding skills to solve a series of problems, and compete for R$75,000 in prizes – and the respect of your peers. Here is the site – Register. Like Unlike

Top 11 things geeks did for New Year’s Eve

This is originally from bbspot.com. Interesting enough to post it in here….. after all imitation is the best form of flattery Things Geeks Did on New Year’s Eve 11. Kissed their WoW avatar at midnight. 10. Watched the BIOS date change years. 9. Hoped for a Y2K+7 bug. 8. Too busy playing nethack to notice. [...]

upgrading from wordpress 1.5 to 2.0.5

this way worked for me. first let me tell you about the back end. i have a virtual server with 1and1.com 1. ftp the latest version of wordpress 2. create a new directory in your server space 3. unroll the tar ball or the zip file in that directory (./new_directory) 4. point a subdomain (that [...]