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, [...]

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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.  

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Eric Arthur Blair, more commonly known by the pen name George Orwell, was very much against totalitarian governments. His writings reflect that, especially 1984 and Animal Farm. In addition to being opposed to bad governments, Orwell was opposed to bad writing. He gave 12 tips to better writing in his essay, Politics and the English [...]

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