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If you look to the right of the blog, in the sidebar, you’ll now notice a ChipIn widget. Normally I wouldn’t do this, but hopefully there will be some nice folks out there that may possibly chipin

I’m trying to raise funds for a new computer. The one I have just isn’t cutting it anymore. It’s affecting everything, including my programming. The PC I have now is 4 years old, which is more like 10+ years old with how fast the computer world moves/advances.

So if you have a paypal account, like me or my blog, and would like to help out - ChipIn!

Wordpress recently released version 2.6 of their great open source blogging CMS. It was actually released ahead of schedule, and within a few months of the 2.5 release. I must say, great progress! All in all, it looks like they added several great features, fixed ~200 bugs, and improved existing features quite a bit. It’s worth the upgrade!

Excerpt of Official Announcement (full announcement):

’m happy to announce that version 2.6 of WordPress.org is now available, almost a month ahead schedule. Version 2.6 “Tyner,” named for jazz pianist McCoy Tyner, contains a number of new features that make WordPress a more powerful CMS: you can now track changes to every post and page and easily post from wherever you are on the web, plus there are dozens of incremental improvements to the features introduced in version 2.5.

We’ve prepared a brief video tour of 2.6, if you have 3 minutes and 29 seconds to spare, it’s worth a watch:

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Well, it’s now 12:05 AM here in Kentucky, making it officially July 4^th so…

Happy Independence Day To All Americans

Enjoy the food, fireworks, parties, whatever you’re doing.

Props to www.centennialpark.com for the image…

Disturbed’s new album, Indestructible, was recently released (which kicks ass btw!). Here is one of the videos to a new song called “Inside The Fire”.

\m/ ( o_0 ) \m/

(Evil laughter)
Ohh Devon
Won’t go to Heaven
She’s just another lost soul, about to be mine again
Leave her
We will receive her
It is beyond your control
will you ever meet again.

Devon
No longer livin’
Who had been rendered unwhole.
As a little child,
she was taken
and then forsaken
you will remember it all
Let it blow your mind again.

Devon lies beyond this portal
take the word of one immortal

Give your soul to me
For eternity
release your life
to begin another time with her
End your grief with me
there’s another way
release your life
take your place inside the fire with her

Sever, Now and forever
you’re just another lost soul about to be mine again
see her? you’ll never free her
you must surrender it all
if you’d like to meet again

Fire, All you desire
As she begins to turn cold, and run out of time
you will shiver, till you deliver
you will remember it all
Let it blow your mind again

Devon lies beyond this portal
take the word of one immortal

Give your soul to me
For eternity
release your life
to begin another time with her
End your grief with me
there’s another way
release your life
take your place inside the fire with her.

[solo]

Give your soul to me
For eternity
release your life
to begin another time with her
End your grief with me
there’s another way
release your life
take your place inside the fire with her.

Ohh. Devon
No longer livin’
Who had been rendered unwhole
As a little child
she was taken,
and then forsaken
you will remember it all
Let it blow your mind again.
(Evil Laughter)

I’ve been following the news lately, and it’s sad to see what’s happened in Iowa. If you’ve not heard, a tornado hit a Boy Scout camp in Iowa, killing four Boy Scouts. Apart from that, there’s all the flooding in the state. Here’s part of the news story, my heart & prayers go out to all those affected.

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — Four people were killed and 48 injured when a tornado tore through a Boy Scout camp in western Iowa on Wednesday night, according to a spokeswoman for the Iowa Homeland Security Division and news agency and local newspaper reports.

Three 13-year-old scouts and one 14-year-old scout were killed, said Lloyd Roitstein, an executive with the Mid America Council of the Boy Scouts of America, according to The Associated Press. He did not release the names of the victims.

Tornadoes also touched down in Kansas, Minnesota and Nebraska on Wednesday, according to The A.P. Those tornadoes killed at least two people in northern Kansas, destroyed much of the small town of Chapman and caused extensive damage on the Kansas State University campus, according to The A.P… rest of story

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The blog has a new look now, as if you’ve not already notice This one, however, is fully custom. I’m not using one of those free WP themes anymore (thank goodness). I mean, nothing wrong with them, there are some very nice ones out there - but custom is definitely the way to go!

Let me know what you think about the new design.

Well, tomorrow (5/20/2008) is our primary here in Kentucky. This will be my first time voting! So I’m nervous, and not too sure why really. Oh well, I’ll get over it I guess.

Over the past few months, I’ve been watching both Clinton and Obama - speeches, debates, etc. I’m a Democrat, btw, let’s get that out of the way first.

I’ve been joking over the past few months how I would never vote for Clinton, cause she’s a woman. Well, that’s not the truth. When it comes down to it, it’s not because Clinton is a woman, it’s because I don’t feel she’s the best candidate. And honestly, I don’t think she could win it for us against McCain (that crazy bastid!).

So, all things considered, I will be voting for Obama (if my “network bar” Obama ‘08 didn’t make it clear to you ). Not only am I voting for him in the primary, but I will be voting for him when it comes November as well. (kind of a “duh!” there eh?)

Who are you voting for?

The PHP team recently released PHP 5.2.6. There have been a lot of improvements and fixes made to the codebase. Highly suggested you upgrade NOW! (I already did )

The PHP development team would like to announce the immediate availability of PHP 5.2.6. This release focuses on improving the stability of the PHP 5.2.x branch with over 120 bug fixes, several of which are security related.All users of PHP are encouraged to upgrade to this release.

Further details about the PHP 5.2.6 release can be found in the release announcement for 5.2.6, the full list of changes is available in the ChangeLog for PHP 5.

Security Enhancements and Fixes in PHP 5.2.6:

• Fixed possible stack buffer overflow in the FastCGI SAPI identified by Andrei Nigmatulin.
• Fixed integer overflow in printf() identified by Maksymilian Aciemowicz.
• Fixed security issue detailed in CVE-2008-0599 identified by Ryan Permeh.
• Fixed a safe_mode bypass in cURL identified by Maksymilian Arciemowicz.
• Properly address incomplete multibyte chars inside escapeshellcmd() identified by Stefan Esser.
• Upgraded bundled PCRE to version 7.6

I’m sure many of you know by now, I am “addicted” to Disturbed. Their music f@$#ing rocks! Well, lately, I’ve been listening to one of their songs… a lot. A lot more than many of the others.

It’s become one of my top favorites, and it’s called “Deify”.

[Woman's Voice:] That’s what I believe got him re-elected, is the people knew that you could believe what he says.
[George Bush:] Our Country is strong, we go forward to defend freedom, and all that is good and just in our world.

All my devotion betrayed
I am no longer afraid
I was too blinded to see
How much you’ve stolen from me

You want to know why I feel so horrified?
I’ve let my innocence die
You want to know why I can’t be pacified?
You made me bury something
I won’t be sleeping tonight

I only wanted a blessing made
Now I’ve been labeled a renegade
It seems so clear now what I must do
You’re no immortal
I won’t let them
Deify you
They view you as the new messiah
Deify you
Renew belief in some demented man

You want to know why it seems the passion’s died?
We’ve all been living this lie
You want to know why my will’s been fortified?
You’ve made me hunger again
Good luck sleeping tonight

I only wanted a blessing made
Now I’ve been labeled a renegade
It seems so clear now what I must do
You’re no immortal
I won’t let them
Deify you
They view you as the new messiah
Deify you
Renew belief in some demented man

All my devotion betrayed
I am no longer afraid
I was too blinded to see
How much you’ve stolen from me

Deify you
They view you as the new messiah
Deify you
Renew belief in some demented man