Smiley’s Blog

[Update @ 3:06AM SLT: Eh, on second thought, i'll do this later!]

As previously announced on the WordPress official development blog, WordPress 2.3 is released, and will soon be deployed on my blog . The release holds some awesome features, including tagging posts in addition to categories, canonical URLs — who fix corrected post “slugs” (the pretty URLs you see on your address bar on 99% of WordPress blogs), broken or cut-off emailed links, and more, and a fix of the WYSIWYG system, used to write posts online, that is much similar to office software, like “Microsoft Word”, “Open Office: Write”, and more.

Two more features which I have not mentioned due to un-needing-ness, is the new “Pending Review” function that helps crew-operated blogs, like the Official Linden Blog, where there is at least 1 editor that checks posts before posting them to the world, and the “Update Notification” features, that is very handy in upgrading times, which hardly occur. It sends your entire system data “log”, to api.wordpress.com , which then checks your configuration against the plugins database for compatibility with the new version.

One thing i’m afraid of, is the compatibility of my activated plugins and styles, with WordPress 2.3 . Really freaky and “scary” O.O .

Well, i’m gonna start the upgrade soon to 2.3 . At 1:10PM GMT+2 (3:10AM SLT), i’ll start the upgrade. Should take a minute or so .

Hey readers,

Tomorrow (Sep 23rd), right in the morning, i’ll be flying (for 45 minutes instead of 5 hours driving by car ) to Eilat for a family vacation . Of course, i’ll be carrying my mylo for IMs, web browsing, and more. If you’d like to add me to your Yahoo! or Skype buddy list, gimme a shout by email.

I’ll try and blog about stuff while there, but unlike the US and other countries, we don’t have a Wi-Fi signal every 100 meters! X.X .

And like in the last post, no leaving the post without commenting! >:O .

Through a trailer made in Second Life, I found out about an online novel called “He Still Watches”. It’s a horror story written by Dale A. Moses, very frightening and intriguing… Can’t keep my eyes off the “book”, hehe… Currently it’s a “First Draft”, but Dale said once it’s done, it’ll be published to a real book. Guess who’s gonna order online once it’s out? .

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Well, apparently ‘Rolling Restarts’ have hit me too. On a network with 3 computers inter-connected to inter-services, sometime rolling restarts HELP! Haha.

This is done to fix my packet loss issues with Second Life . Because apparently, everything else that uses rendering and bandwidth works O.K.! . In addition, i’m finally using that “Intel Core Duo” processor’s real purpose — two cores!. I’m putting everything on one, while SL takes the other .

Hope this fixes it, or 012 are going to get yelled at. I pay (well, not me, but you get the idea ‘^_^) them approx. 70-80NIS a month for 1.5MB, and I lose 200%+ of packets?!?!. Jeez (Yeah, Jeez is the ‘Jesus’ verbal expression for non-Christians ).

If you don’t already know, I got a PS3 . And the most awesome demo I play again and again (15 times to-date) is Folklore . The most awesome of games ever to set foot in the domain of High Definition games. Or in 2 words — kick ass!. The game is about two strangers, Ellen and Keath, “visiting” two Netherworlds named Faeryrealm and Warcadia. They later on appear to “switch worlds” as we see them in each other’s beginner world in several screenshots ‘^_^.

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For ages i’ve hated Windows due to its complexity and “get-broken-ness” (Did you know the more time Windows is running the more it gets damaged?!?!). So, in a few months, maybe 6 >.> i’ll have enough for a new iMac with WiFi, Bluetooth, etc.! .

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The theme is actually ok, but my podcasting plugin makes the theme confused… At first, it used the small image meant for iTunes, then the old RSS-podcasts image, then (somehow) a Flickr image! O.O . People who visited the blog earlier must have noticed the bug, that made it look as unprofessional as 99% of the basic wallpapers in Windows hehe.

So, podPress is now disabled… Goodbye podPress, I knew him well… >.>

Well, I finally cracked. I need a domain that has “Smiley” in it, no matter what. Well, here’s what’s taken!:

• thesmiley.com/.net
• smiley.com/.net/.org/.info/.whatever

Here’s what’s not taken, and put up for thought…:

• smileyslives.com
• dasmiley.com
• smileybarry.com(?)
• the-smiley.com(?)
• (Add your own suggestion here…)

So, if you got any bright ideas or any will to help me choose >.> , feel free to comment . I can see any comment before and after its published, so I can respond immediately when you post a comment .

(And no, i’m not gonna use my real name as a domain! )

Heya readers, I got my blog a “makeovah” . Like the new theme? I like the new logo ESPECIALLY! Took me a little “struggle”, but I got it. The Theme has some issues with CSS customizations…

Anyway, this theme has some nifty Javascript stuff and effects, including…:

• Inline comments posting and editing (with effects!)
• Interactive archives option when you click “<< older”
• Better compatibility with over 75 plugins
• and more…

In conclusion, I dig this, ALOT! .

Heya readers . I ran into a funny video online called “Cat VS Children”…. This cat obviously doesn’t like kids… Which is hilarious!. Here it is… Feel free to comment! .

[flv]http://www.maniacworld.com/mean-cat.flv[/flv]

P.S.: Vint, when your avie’s a big grown-up kitty, don’t be like that cat! .