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Archive for May, 2005

Wordpress reaching a critical mass: 200,000 !

By Emile • May 6th, 2005 • Category: General

As Matt Mullenweg has pointed out: Wordpress has been downloaded more than 200,000 times! It’s great to see a simple, elegant, and outstanding open-source solution grow and grow.
Congrats to everyone surrounding Wordpress development and more!



Apple releases OS 10.3.9 Security Fixes

By Emile • May 5th, 2005 • Category: General

Apple has released an update to OS 10.3.9 to fix 19 possible openings that would allow root access and compromise a system. The update can be downloaded through the Software Update control panel or via the Apple Downloads section of the Apple website.
You can view the revision and change log for this update […]



iCanary Part Deux

By Emile • May 5th, 2005 • Category: Design, FileMaker, General

Having recently uncovered a press release written for the premiere of iCanary 1.0, I realize it’s been just under two years (putting aside updates and fixes) that any major news has been released about the application.
As it stands, iCanary 2.0 is in the works! It is a complete rewrite from the groundup, […]



Reality TV Tech Support

By Emile • May 4th, 2005 • Category: General

Forwarded to me from a reader, mind you this is a true story that just puts a smile on my face:
>>Tech support: What antivirus program do you use?
>>Customer: Netscape.
>>Tech support: That’s not an antivirus program.
>>Customer: Oh, sorry…Internet Explorer.



Tiger Has Arrived: A Necessary Evil?

By Emile • May 3rd, 2005 • Category: Design, General

“What need you note it? pray you, keep your way.”
– QUEEN KATHARINE; King Henry VIII, Act II, Scene IV

Is Tiger a necessary evil?



Taft Outweighs Elvgren

By Emile • May 3rd, 2005 • Category: Blogging, Design, General

Ladies and gentlemen, in this corner weighing in at a modest 200lbs is the wordpress theme Elllllllllllllllllllvvvvvvvgrennnnnnn!!!!!
And in the opposite corner, the underground alternative Wordpress Theme #140, weighing in at 693lbs er… 693 downloads for the month of April is TTAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaafffffffffffffffftttttt!!
Now that all of the hubbub has settled from Alex King’s Wordpress Theme […]



Loose Lips at Los Alamos ?

By Emile • May 1st, 2005 • Category: Blogging, General

In a pretty startling revelation, the NY Times discussed the recent controversy and internal debates over the current director, Dr. G. Peter Nanos. Amazingly, the threat to end the tenure of the director has come from employees vocalization through a blog.
“The blog’s creator is Doug Roberts, a computer scientist who is a 20-year laboratory […]