Rainbow Dreams

On the way home I was hit by a massive rainstorm that produced some great moisture and a pleasant surprise with this wonderful rainbow! Thought I would share it!

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I just installed the iPhone Wordpress application and found this nice little post here on my blog. Thought I would take this opportunity to showcase it as a bug. I didn’t realize it was there until just now, but this can’t be right. Is this known and being worked on?

Soul Meets Body

I haven’t actually posted very often on this blog lately and really haven’t been doing much more than working. It did find time in the past couple days to learn a new song. This is my cover of “Soul Meets Body” by Death Cab for Cutie. Please take it easy on me since I haven’t played much in the past while This song was recorded just off my Macbook iSight with standard audio. Nothing fancy at all.

Wordpress 2.6 Officially Released

Ryan tagged it about 40 minutes ago and Matt announced it on the Dev blog.    The new version has a little video about it that is worth a look:

Some of the big changes are new theme previews before activating, integration of Google Gears to speed up the administration on your computer and post revisions for those of us that can’t seem to keep it all straight!   Get it while it’s hot!

Is It Really A Carbon Tax?

This past Friday, I was listening to Alder Online with the host Charles Adler speaking with his guest, Liberal MP from Thunder Bay, Ken Boshcoff.    What came out of the show was some refreshing, but brutal honesty about the real underlying meaning behind the proposed Liberal “Carbon Tax” plan.   Let Mr. Boshcoff tell you in his own words:

The ‘shift’ will transfer wealth from rich to poor, from the oil patch to the rest of the country, and from the coffers of big business to the pockets of low-income Canadians.

Even though the Liberal leader has never specifically stated that the plan was going after the wealth in Western Canada, Mr. Boshcoff had no problem saying this was the case.    The proposed “Carbon Plan” will take money through taxes from the “polluters” of Canada.  While on the surface this seems much like “Robin Hood”, it has far reaching implications as the vast majority of Canadians would be deemed as “polluters”.

As far as I can tell, this proposed plan will negatively impact not only “big oil”, but farmers, truck drivers, rural communities, large and small business owners and almost anyone that drives.    What Canadians hopefully realize is that taxes often lead to economic hardships on everyone.   Big and small companies alike might have to downsize and jobs might be at stake, from Vancouver Island to the farthest reaches of the East coast.    Besides unemployment, this plan could also drive down home and property values as an unwanted consequence.

We have to guard ourselves against plans for redistibution of wealth being disguised as as something that is environmentally responsible.   With the global slowdown of the economy, the US in recession and Canada on the brink, this plan scares me.   I hope it scares you as well.

WPMU 2.6 Beta Release

The title is not a typo as we jumped from WPMU 1.5 to WPMU 2.6 to keep up with the releases of WP as not to add confusion with different version numbers.    Donncha just put this beautiful beta release in the wild and if you are adventurous you can take it out for a spin and let everyone know bugs if you happen to find any.

Some of the key features of this release:

• The version number is being bumped to 2.6 rather than 1.6 because of version confusion. Minor MU versions will probably append a letter to the version.
• Signup page now has a nonce to help defeat spammers.
• Plugins in wp-content/plugins/ are version checked like in WordPress. mu-plugins isn’t covered just yet.
• Major object cache changes.
• And many more bug fixes. Check the timeline for a list of changes.

I have been using this release on my test server as we go and put it on my main WPMU site without any issues, so I believe it to be pretty safe!

Special thanks goes out to Donncha for all the wonderful work that he and many others from Automattic and the WP Community put forth to such a great product!

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