As I was running Wordpress 2.2 until five minutes ago, this post at techcrunch caught my eye:
Due to its popularity as a blogging platform, Wordpress has become a prime target for hackers looking to take over blogs for search-engine optimization (SEO) of other sites they control, traffic-redirection and other purposes. Recently there have been a [...]

Well my donations plug-in is complete.
I’ll release it properly on the Wordpress site when I get a chance - but I thought you lot would like the scoop first.
In the mean time you can download it from here.
It’s a plug-in that let’s people know who you’re donating to at the moment. I try to donate [...]

I’ve decided of late that I don’t give enough money. So, to remedy this I’ve decided to donate $50 a month to different organisations whose work I admire and wish to support.
Then I thought that I’d like to encourage others to do the same. I’m also teaching myself php.
These things combined have lead me to [...]

That I feel an overwhelming desire to share:

As I said earlier, xkcd is currently my webcomic of choice.

I upgraded Ubuntu last night - piece of cake and it’s looking pretty smick. Haven’t had much of a chance to play around with it, but I do like the fact that it has Firefox 3 and I look forward to giving the new Bit Torrent program that comes as standard.
I only have one quam, [...]

Thanks to FOSSWire (a blog I should have added to my RSS feeds a long time ago), there is now an Ubuntu Cheat Sheet.
Read about it here, or download it here.

I’m having an argument with a friend (kinda). We both agree that Microsoft is the source of all evil (if only they’d show us the source). But he maintains that OSX is the be all and end all and that Linux is not user friendly. It’s great that you can ‘tweak’ it but that’s not [...]

This shits me:
Eight teenagers have been arrested and charged with beating another teen in an “animalistic attack” so they could make a videotape to post on YouTube.
And then the Sheriff’s comment:
“They lured her into the home for express purpose of filming the attack and posting it on the internet.”
Do you think though, that maybe, there [...]

Dual Screen laptops:

More on “concept laptops” here.

When something strange happens on my (Linux-running) laptop, I’ve been know to comment, “Yes, I love Linux”. And I do, it is better and more secure than Microsoft, but An Amazing Mind has the real reason I use Linux:
We tell people we use Linux because it’s secure. Or because it’s free, because it’s customizable, because [...]