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WordPress 2.6 Released

Wow, that was quick… You can download WordPress 2.6 “Tyner” from the usual location.

You can read more about this release from WordPress.org’s announcement post.

Update: And HTNet’s running it :) Upgrade is smooth as you’d expect from any WordPress build.

Cut Off From Half The Internet

It’s been a really irritating 24 hours for me when it comes to getting online. I can’t access more than half of the sites I frequently visit. What’s worse is that I can use none of Google’s services which include Gmail, Docs, Reader, AdSense and AdWords.

This is absolutely killing me. Thank you TM Stinkyx!

UPDATE @ 10:35am GMT+8: Well wonders never cease! Everything back to normal.

Joomla: A CMS Solution Worth Considering

Joomla!

For the past week, I’ve been messing around with Joomla, a mature and robust CMS. I’ve installed and played about with Joomla on and off for the past couple of years. During this time, only one thing has put me off Joomla: it feels very complicated.

I consider myself competent when it comes to online publishing platforms, which is what Joomla is essentially. However, when it comes to the administration interface I always felt lost. A default Joomla installation has six administration menu groups and roughly 50 child menu items. Add a few more components and modules and you’d end up with over 100 administration pages.

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Weird Spam Comments

For the past two weeks or so, I’ve been receiving a lot of (attempted) spam comments with the following format:

ceeb423e80bb…

ceeb423e80bb32123aa0…

For the name, it will be the first 10 characters of the seemingly random string (it could even be part of some hash algo like MD5), and it will be linked to a .us URL of the same hostname (eg. http://ceeb423e80bb.us).

Have you experienced something similar on your blog?

Use Google Docs Spreadsheets For Online Surveys

I just found out that you can use Google Docs spreadsheets to conduct online surveys using HTML forms.

Results are tallied in real time and so do graphs that represent the responses. I believe that Google may just stumbled into the realm of online survey tools. Whether this is by accident or design is unknown to me.

What do you think of this new feature?