By the action of one will the many be brought low

The story finally hit Slashdot: a WordPress developer uses unethical means to raise money for the site/project. While WordPress the project and software will continue, the blight this action caused undermines not only the integrity of the project as a whole, but the person that perpetrated this. Rather than using the various, well-proven, methods for [...]

WordPress Release 1.5

I noticed that WordPress 1.5 is released. WordPress is a nice blog system, but version 1.2 was not ready for my needs, perhaps this one is? The previous version did not have support for multiple blogs, theming was strange (I think it was PHP driven, but I cannot recall now, a year or more has [...]

Bizarre warning signs

This warning confounds the imagination. Seen in a Company restroom:

Please be careful when using urinal

I wish I had a picture of it, but alas, no camera is available.

Fight terrorism!

SUV’s support terrorism! SUV = oil = terrorism All of us have heard claims similar to the preceeding. Driving gas-guzzling (petrol guzzling for non en_USA speakers) vehicles somehow supports, or promotes, terrorism. The proponents of such arguments often suggest turning elsewhere for energy needs, driving hybrid cars and the like. There are many flaws to [...]

Act 2005 – Unable to install

OS: MSâ,,¢ Windowsâ,,¢ XP

SP: 2

Act: 2005

Action: Uninstalled ACT 2005

Results: Removes all ODBC drivers from System

Fix: uninstall service pack 2. Reinstall MDAC 2.8. Reinstall ACT (if that is your goal). Reinstall service pack 2.

Why: I have know idea. Uninstalling a program should never remove all the ODBC drivers, only [...]