10.28.07
Posted in Wordpress at 11:00 am by levelzero
Wordpress 2.3.1 got released friday and this was the first time that I could find out if the subversion method really would save me some time.
Turns out it’s one single command to update to the newest version:
svn sw http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/tags/2.3.1/
After that, I reran the /wp-admin/upgrade.php script (even though there were no database changes) just to be sure and the upgrade was done. It took about 1 minute.
Instructions for upgrading wordpress through subversion can be found here. I definitely think this is worth changing to, it will save you a lot of time in the future.
Tags:
subversion,
wordpress upgrade
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10.26.07
Posted in Fun & Games at 3:19 pm by levelzero
I’ve come across quite a few strange programming languages over the past few years. To name a few:
Today I found yet another programming language .. this one maybe even stranger than these previous three. The name is LOLCode and it is based on the text used on the pictures shown on pages like http://icanhascheezburger.com.
An example program in LOLCode would be as follows (Hello World example)
HAI
CAN HAS STDIO?
VISIBLE "HAI WORLD!"
KTHXBYE
There’s already a .NET compiler available for LOLCode as well.
It’s not fully complete yet, but it’s getting there.
Tags:
.NET,
Brainfuck,
LOLCode,
Ook!,
Programming,
Whitespace
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10.12.07
Posted in General at 2:28 pm by levelzero
According to an article I just read a Russian spammer, thought to be responsible for roughly 30% of the viagra spam worldwide was found murdered in his house this week.
Now the optimist in me wants to see this as a revenge action where he spammed the wrong person, but I bet he just failed to pay his protection money or something silly like that.
The end result should be 30% fewer viagra mails .. if only for a few days until someone else takes over the botnet this idiot was using.
EDIT: Appearently, this is a hoax. The original domain this post was on was registered just before the story appeared, has no other content and is hosted at a hosting provider (ESTDomains) which is known for hosting malicious websites in the past. Securityfocus.com notes that this might be an attempt to create a highly referenced URL (through blogs, digg, slashdot, google, etc.) that later could be used to host malicious code.
Tags:
hoax,
malware,
spam
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10.10.07
Posted in Music, Reviews at 4:44 pm by levelzero
Yesterday I went to the Eastpak Antidote concert in Willem 2 in Den Bosch. The following bands played:
Sonic Syndicate: Good show, especially considering the age and overall experience of the band. I expect great things from these guys (and girl :P) in the future!
Caliban: Not much to say .. not my style of music. But judging by the reaction from the crowd, I guess they didn’t do too badly.
Dark Tranquillity: Brilliant show, I loved every minute of it (and experienced it all from right in front of the stage too). They played five songs of the new album, they were: Terminus, The Lesser Faith, Inside the Particle Storm, Focus Shift and Misery Crown. The other five songs they played were: The New Build, The Treason Wall, The Wonders at your Feet, My Negation and Punish my Heaven.
Soilwork: Good show .. I wasn’t all that familiar with their music yet, but I definitely liked them. I will check out their stuff and I am looking forward to the new CD that’s coming out next week.
After Soilwork played, I was on my way to the exit when I saw Mikael Stanne and Martin Brandström from DT come out of the backstage area, so I took a detour to get a chance to talk to them.
I didn’t get home until 1:15 AM, or so, but overall the evening was definitely worth while, I had a great time, had a few beers, saw some good bands performing and even managed to chat with some of the people from a band I’m a big fan of 
Tags:
Caliban,
Dark Tranquillity,
Eastpak,
Soilwork,
Sonic Syndicate,
Willem 2
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