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After the Blog World Expo

Pulished September 23, 2008

I went to the Blog World Expo which was held in Las Vegas from the 19th-21st. I only made it to the last day. My morning started out at 4am at home, driving to pick my girlfriend up from work and then spending the morning on highway 15 to Vegas! We got to Vegas at around 9:30am just enough time to grab a quick bite before the expo.

Once inside we spent most of the morning browsing inside the exhibits hall. We came across many company’s I have heard of and a lot that I had not. One thing for sure, the hall was filled with Widget Application, like crazy!

Out of the whole exhibit there were only a handful of company’s that stood out to me. And I will tell you about a few of them now.

In no particular order…

  1. OutBrain.. Integrate ratings and personalized recommendations, quickly and free.
  2. TechSmith Capture, edit, and share exactly what you see on your screen.
  3. Zannel A free mobile video and photo blogging community See post!
  4. Woopra Website Tracking and Analytics.
  5. Pic App the best content for the best publishers.

Anyway, those are a few of the company’s which I spent a good deal of time talking with. And I liked there ideas and there service.

Oh and I must say that Woopra, is quite the amazing Analytics application! And… thanks Lorelle for giving me a awesome complex speech about the application.

I will see you again next year!

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Critical Update for WordPress

Pulished September 8, 2008

And I just updated my site to version 2.6.1 like two days ago…

But check out the info about 2.6.2 here, or below

Stefan Esser recently warned developers of the dangers of SQL Column Truncation and the weakness of mt_rand(). With his help we worked around these problems and are now releasing WordPress 2.6.2. If you allow open registration on your blog, you should definitely upgrade. With open registration enabled, it is possible in WordPress versions 2.6.1 and earlier to craft a username such that it will allow resetting another user

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Heroes Season 3

Pulished August 26, 2008

I am a HUGE fan of comics and all the best Marvel movies! But I have been a fan of Heroes, well since the actors strike last year which cut the second season of the show from 24 episodes to 11

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Catching up

Pulished August 23, 2008

So since I have been bake there have been a lot of changes. Well I think I can go on for ever about what has and hasn’t changed. But I think I will just create a quick like for myself and make it easy.

  • The new WordPress 2.6.1 release, like I said.
  • The Olympics are almost over.
  • Hmm, I thought there was more… Maybe I am tired and forgot stuff… yeah, I’ll get back to this later.

P.S. My brain still feels like its on vacation.. I need a reality check.

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Plugin Compatibility Issues

Pulished August 9, 2008

Everyone has plugins installed on there WordPress blog. And some people have so many that there are compatibility issues between them. Well I am sure that most of you won’t experience this, I just came across a known issue between two plugins.

As you see in a previous post “Conditional Tags”, I am using the WP-Syntax:

Syntax highlighting using GeSHi supporting a wide range of popular languages. Wrap code blocks with < pre lang=”LANGUAGE” line=”1″> and where LANGUAGE is a geshi supported language syntax. The line attribute is optional. By Ryan McGeary.

I recently downloaded the Register Plus which will…

Enhance your Registration Page. Add Custom Logo, Password Field, Invitation Codes, Disclaimer, Captcha Validation, Email Validation, User Moderation, Profile Fields and more. By Skullbit.

Thing is, the new Register Plus plugin wouldn’t activate while the WP-Syntax plugin was. So what to do? Well I sent a message on over to Skullbit, so I guess I’ll have to wait and see. for now, I will leave the WP-Syntax plugin activated.
;)

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Don’t loose your bumper

Pulished August 8, 2008

I was traveling South on the 405 freeway when I passed Nordhoff St when a silver Acura Integra passed by me in the carpool lane. Just at the rear of the car passed me the bumper somehow disconnected from the car which sent the car into a fish tail. I had about 100 feet, where I slammed on my brakes and the Acura veered right spinning into 180° facing oncoming traffic, he then spun 5 lanes to the right shoulder somehow avoiding the somewhat heavy traffic and flipped off the rail over onto the on ramp of Nordhoff St. Damn! I think I almost died, hopefully they driver and passenger are OK.

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Socal Earthquake

Pulished July 29, 2008

So I am sure that every one in southern California felt the quake, but I was totally passed out sleeping at 11:42am. Waking up to my bed shaking and my girlfriend asking “whats going on”. I replied it was our four pound chihuahua “Keiki”, in which she mumbled back “Keiki, stop it”.
:) That was pure comedy. But really, 5.4 Quake! I felt it all the way down by the beach.

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