Archive for February, 2007

WordPress 2.1.1 Update

Posted by Johan Cyprich on 26 Feb 2007 | Tagged as: Applications

The latest WordPress update was released on February 21. It was classified as a “low-to-medium priority update”. There were about 30 bugs fixed in version 2.1.1.

Version 2.09 was also released but this was just a security update. The WordPress Organization emphasized that they are committed to supporting 2.0 until 2010. If your running 2.0.x, you [...]

Bugatti Veyron at 407 Km/h

Posted by Johan Cyprich on 26 Feb 2007 | Tagged as: Videos

If you never heard of a Bugatti Veyron, you need to see this video. The car costs about $1.6 million and can drive up to 407 Km/h. You can get one of these things by writing a good web browser.
 

Brrrrrr … The Digital Ice Age!

Posted by Johan Cyprich on 22 Feb 2007 | Tagged as: Technology

It’s been fairly cold in Richmond recently and snow has been building up on the mountains again. Even though it’s winter in Canada, there is no snow in this city. We’ve had a few snow storms, but all of it melted away in a couple of weeks. This is one of the advantages of living [...]

Building a CMS

Posted by Johan Cyprich on 21 Feb 2007 | Tagged as: Applications

I’ve spent a great deal of time searching for a content management system (CMS). WordPress is a good application, but it doesn’t offer enough functionality for the full featured CMS that I wanted to build.

I was considering using Drupal. This is a very good CMS for quickly creating an integrated blog and forums. The forums [...]

Mercy for a Russian Software Pirate

Posted by Johan Cyprich on 18 Feb 2007 | Tagged as: Business

Arrrr Cap’n, there be pirates in the Urals!

Another Russian has been caught pirating software. This time its a teacher in a school pirating Microsoft Windows for students who could never afford their own Windows or computers. The school is located in Perm, which is one of the larger cities in Russia at the foot of [...]

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