Wordpress 2.3 Released

That is right the Wordpress 2.3 version has been released and is ready for everyone running the best blogging platform on the internet to update to the next version.Lots of great features are being added and everyone should check out the post from the Wordpress Development blog for all the details on the update.

Spent probably half the night messaging on MySpace last night, with several friends from back in the day that just happen to be on at the same time as me. Needless to say we are all getting together this week to party. I have not seen my friends James or Steve since back in the day and am looking forard to hanging out and going clubbing to all the hot spots. In my opinon these two men are some of the hottest guys on MySpace.

Anytime I hear “One study shows”, I immediately assume that some bullshit is about to follow, and it usually does. Today I found an article on Techcrunch that talks about a story in which a journalism study tried to show that social news sites and the blogosphere were more about toys (like the iphone unlock) rather than important news articles.

I appreciate the Tech crunch writer who made some important observations such as the story about Putin dissolution of the Russian government making the top 10 of digg today, and I think that more consideration should be made to the fact that many news stories come and go very quickly on sites like digg. I know I for one will use my feedreader to check stories several times a day from digg and other social news services including newsvine. So you can’t just make a study at one time of the day and consider it accurate, especially with a site like digg that changes so much.

People living the 24 hour a day connected life want change, it’s no wonder that a study has not been done to reflect how many of the traditional news sites will get my attention to look at the headlines usually once a day, and social new networks will often get me to click and read several times a day.

I saw an article via reauters blog post that talked about this so called “storm worm” “bot net” has beceom so powerful, that collectively it has the power of the top 10 supercomputers in the world. You know, super, ultra powerful computers that can calculate information faster than a combine 10,000 pentium 4 pcs. Well doing a little searching it seems that many people are quite concerned about the power of this bot net.

It seems that someone has managed to use a rootkit type of attack to infect computer all over the world, and using various techniques, not just virus infected emails, but also malicious code on a web page to infect tons of computes worldwide. This basically gives the owner of this virus system control over your computer, and many other people’s systems as well.

Doing some searching it seems that many computer geeks are worried that such a powerful system of zombie machines combined into this bot net will give someone unprecedented power to send out a huge amount of spam emails, which would clog up not just email inboxes and filters, but seriously slow down system across the internet. There is also some discussion about the pure brute force power of using all the zombie systems to attack a web site or web sites which would take them all down.

I’m sure the military and government see this as a threat at this point, and I bet microsoft will be reconsidering leaving rootkit back doors in it’s system, even if the music industry will play nicer with microsoft for having these types of holes in our computer systems.

I’m sure the standard defenses apply – have currently updated anti-virus software running, and make sure you have applied the latest windows updates.

Already thinking about what I want to be for Halloween this year and it is a toss up between either a Pirate or something a bit sexier like Marilyn Monroe. Found this awsome website that sells both halloween costumes I want this year, for prices far better than any other store I have ever shopped at. I paid less than $50 dollars for all my kids Halloween costumes and got a couple of fabulous looking infant Halloween costumes for my newborn. The costumes arrived at my home ontime and in mint condition. I was so impressed with the customer service and large selection of costumes they carried I just had to do a post on my blog about them and tell everyone out there in the blogosphere what a great place Anytime Costumes is.