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Unfortunately, nobody guessed the correct price (RM2.70). Worse still, there were only eight participants. So by right, this contest should be nulled and voided.

However, being the good sport that I am, I’m going to give a reduced payout of $20 to the closest guess; RM2.53 by kadclow. Congratulations!

And the suckiest thing is that I’m in KL with only half a tank full and every petrol station I saw has a queue of at least 100 cars waiting to top up!

I’ll be taking some time off. In a few hours time, I will be on the way to Kuala Lumpur. I’ll be there until Saturday (or Sunday). Until I return, I’m afraid updates on HTNet will be almost non-existant… but I’ll try to get online as much as I can.

Kay, any chance to hook up? I’d love to meet you.

I didn’t expect to reveal this information less than 24 hours after my last post… but my PayPal cash register just rang… Kaching!

I managed to sell ServerBuzz.com for €450 through Sedo. Sedo charges €50 for securing a buyer for my domain, but I believe that getting €400 is more than a fair price to get from a domain that I was under-utilizing anyway.

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KUALA LUMPUR, 21 April 2008 – SAS Institute, the world’s leading business intelligence (BI) software provider, today announced that it is participating in the 16th World Congress on Information Technology (WCIT). SAS is the only independent BI vendor sponsor for WCIT 2008 to be held in Kuala Lumpur from May 18 – 22, 2008.

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First thing’s first; it works! The next most important thing; it was a very painless process. The steps are pretty easy especially if you’ve upgraded WP before. Essentially the steps are as follows:

1. Disable all installed plugins
2. Grab the latest WordPress build; extract the contents; replace the older files on your server (or you can do this painlessly via SSH)
3. Run the upgrade script (usually at http://yourwebsite/wp-admin/upgrade.php) and wait for a couple of seconds or minutes; depending on the size of your current database
4. Login to the wp-admin page and reactivate your plugins one by one; make sure you open another tab to preview your blog while doing this, just to see if there are any complications
5. If everything goes well, it’s time to celebrate!

Please note that there’s a new configuration called SECRET_KEY in WP 2.5′s wp-config.php file. Just set it to some random string as shown below:

define('SECRET_KEY', 'lkjdfhU(H*H8h9uHF8U767f65df56t&^t^&th(jhYT6FYHBUIy*b*u3R'); // Change this to a unique phrase.

The secret key should include upper and lowercase letters, numbers and symbols. After that you need to re-login to the admin panel.