Wordpress 2.8 is out and looking good! I run svn, so I I’ve been seeing it coming along for a while now, but now that it’s out everyone can experience the joy that is 2.8
Can’t wait to see what 3.0 brings!
I love Hulu.com, but lately it seems they have some capacity problems. I guess it can be taken as a sign of rapid growth, which is good. However, I find myself constantly having to pause and wait a few minutes for the buffer to fill up. I hope they get that fixed soon.
Edit: On second thought here…. It might be that my ISP is throttling things. Time Warner… the sucky service millions are forced to use.
I was browsing through my old posts… when I came across this post from over a year ago.
It was interesting to see what I was planning and hoping for back then. Interestingly enough, even over a year ago, my idea of my next system was not too unlike what I’m still picturing. Avoiding the fact that I will probably not have the budget to build one this summer, either… if I were to do such, the specs lined up in the linked post, are not too far from what I would build these days.
Core i7 is here now, so in terms of server chips… we can now get 6 cores on a chip, 12 cores in a dual socket system. While this type of build may not be within my future budget, 8 cores on one chip should be once Intel releases 8-core Core i7 chips. Triple channel RAM is here… so the projection on that front for 12GB of RAM was not bad, and is still perfectly reasonable for todays systems.
I was hoping my idea of a really great system would have changed more substantially by now… but it hasn’t. This makes me wonder if the technology has not improved significantly enough in a year (possibly due to the economy?) or if perhaps I was just looking far advanced of a possible system at that time. Maybe it’s a mix of both.
With that said, I have to say that pretty much any system you can build for $500-1000 these days is definitely plenty powerful for most people, as in… I think technology is finally starting to really be great in all price ranges.
Yay!
Take that Spam Bots! Lately, I’ve been getting several random registrations on my blog to spam accounts with random e-mails. So, since there is no real need or purpose for people to register to my blog (anyone can comment anyway), I’ve decided to just disable user registrations. If you still want to register for some reason (not sure there is actually any benefit), then just let me know and I can make that happen for you.
Today we had an interesting discussion about abortion in my Honors Colloquium. Every time I hear these debates, I just become more Pro-choice.
Let me first say, that I would never tell a woman to get an abortion. That would just be wrong to tell her what she should do since I have no medical training. On the flip side… I would never tell a woman to NOT have an abortion. That would be wrong because I am not in her shoes (neither physically nor metaphorically) and I have no medical training. This is an individual choice the woman has to make. And since the government has no medical training and they do not know every case personally… they can not make a blanket law completely banning the procedure. It’s as simple as that.
Another thing that came up in this discussion was Obama’s stance on late-term abortion. Most people cite how gruesome the procedure is. Why does that change anything? I’d be willing to be the average person would consider ANY surgical procedure gruesome, but since they don’t know the details of digging around inside a human body, they remain ignorant to those details. Sometimes it is medical relevant to have a late term abortion. Sometimes it is a choice between saving the mother or the baby. And to mandat that the baby gets all priority in these decisions is so wrong. If the mother chooses to die for her baby to live, then ok. If she decides that she does not want to trade her life for a baby, then ok. There should be zero judgment on her choice because it is to be a personal choice. And individuals with a medical training (aka the doctors involved) are the ones that can make the best recommendation on the situation… NOT the government.
This is why laws against abortion are fundamentally wrong. Sure, people have opinions… but these opinions are just that. The fact is that you do not know all situations, therefore you can not just say one way or the other.
I’m working on giving back the the people by providing an easy, free over-the-air host for blackberry apps.
The site is http://www.otadrop.com
So far, I don’t have much there, but with time I will. I am currently working on the back-end. It’s going to be all database driven, so it’ll be nice and dynamic. If I have the time, I will also make it so you have to login and such to drop an OTA package.
In the mean time, if you need an OTA package hosted… just let me know. I’ll be glad to host it until I get the site up and running.
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