HTNet

This idea must’ve came from some RIAA execs’ mad brainstorming session, but I’ll give it a go anyway…

I’ve been passed the Musical Baton by Basu, and being the sport that I am, I will participate. In fact, this would be my first ever meme participation

• Total volume of music on my computer:
• 445MB. Yes, really. I don’t keep much Oggs on my box.

• The last CD I bought was:
• The Prodigy - Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned

• Song playing right now:
• Keine Lust by Rammstein (Album: Reise, Reise)

• Five songs that I listen to a lot, or mean a lot to me:
• Life Goes On by Poison (Album: Flesh & Blood)
• Crossroads by Bone, Thugs N Harmony (Album: E 1999 Eternal)
• Running by No Doubt (Album: Rock Steady)
• One Man Army by The Prodigy and Tom Morello (Album: Spawn OST)
• Lonely by Akon (Album: Trouble)

• Five people to whom I’m passing the baton:
• Lainie
• Tyler
• Suanie
• Laila
• Vanessa

There’s a security update for WP. More info can be read here (WP Dev Blog) and on Blogging Pro.

Basically you just need to insert one line in /wp-includes/template-functions-category.php, somewhere after line 130:

function get_the_category_by_ID($cat_ID) {
$cat_ID = (int) $cat_ID;
$category = &get_category($cat_ID);
return $category->cat_name;
}

The bolded code is what you have to add.

The BBC has a nice writeup on “Silver Surfers”, basically those who are over 55.

An interesting quote from the article:

More than half of over-55s online say the net gives them a new lease of life. Seven percent look for love online, and 22% play games.

Looking for love online? Probably explains the popularity of viagra spams many of us get on a daily basis Me? I prefer the good old Kopi Tongkat Ali (coffee with Eurycoma longifolia)

Although the article is UK-centric, it’s interesting to see how older folks are using the Internet to communicate with others, getting new friends and to entertain themselves with online poker, bingo and other games. It offers an interesting insight into how this technology is changing the lives of the elderly.

One of the benefits of my migration to a new hosting provider is that I get a much more detailed statistics on HTNet. While I was browsing through my stats, I found that I was linked from USATODAY sometime in mid April, via this article. This was related to my post on Cookie Monster’s sudden change of diet.

What’s so special about the link? Well, I didn’t really pimp the post to anyone, but sweet Ms. Whitney Matheson discovered it anyway Thank you!

I’m used to getting linked from major sites through their comment system or something similar, but this is my first time getting linked from a major news web site without any coaxing from my part… So yay to me as well

Here’s the next series in my Photoblog, the computers I use on a daily basis. Advance warning: Don’t expect k-leet LEDs-galore, 10 billion cooling fans, cathode-lighted internals compubeasts. I expect my boxes to be functional, not aesthetically pleasing (or blinding).

The three computers are:

• My home PC; AMD Thunderbird 1.4GHz, 128MB DDR-SDRAM, NVIDIA Geforce2 MX-400, Albatron KX600-Pro mobo, Powered by Slackware Linux.
• The Corporate Server; Intel Celeron (Mendocino) 333MHz, 128MB SDRAM, Onboard SiS Display, Some generic SiS5595 mobo, Powered by Slackware Linux.
• My work box; AMD Athlon XP 1600+, 512MB DDR-SDRAM, NVIDIA Geforce2 MX-400, Some generic VIA mobo, Underpowered by Windows XP

Click the link below only if you’re interested to see how the buggers look like

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