Idea, idea, idea… Now repeat 59 times. Voilà! 59 ideas!
A busy surfing week this.
I’m a laggard in terms of adoption and in this case PHP5. Upgrade to PHP5 was held back since most applications work fine on PHP4 and some even has issues with PHP5. But all these is about to change because of Mediawiki.
I wanted to use Mediawiki for a few wiki that I like to start. Mediawiki however, had stopped development on PHP4 platform and support only PHP5. My choice is either to use the legacy version or move on to PHP5. I bit the bullet and chose the latter.
Upgrade went pretty painless. Much, much more simple than I imagine. Just a configuration change, a package update and a apache restart. Thanks to this piece of information.
Everything seems to be working fine, at least this blog looks ok.
Well done. I took my first step into PHP5.
When I read post like this, I recalled my own horror encounter with spam blacklist.
You can imagine the the extent of rage when after so many years, I hiss at SBL eachtime I read of similar vexation.
For the goodness sake of the Internet, blacklist the spam blacklist.
Some chinese sites. Sorry to the English only readers, I wanted to look at more Chinese sites since I’m living and working there.
A look at Spam related issues.
Sometimes I wonder, would Google become the next Microsoft? It seems that Microsoft and Yahoo are having problem competing with Google.
People prefer to work at Google. Even companies prefer to be acquired by Google.
Google must have done something right. Everything they do is cool. Comparatively, everything Microsoft does for a long time is an evil attemp to take over the world.
What can go wong with them? They just reported third quarter earnings growth of 92% over last year. Could they have done that by cutting back on the amount they paid to adsense publisher? No wonder people are speculating Adsense is dead.
Imagine Google went from zero to what they are now is just over half a decade. Impossible is nothing.
Another pay check! Time for another donation. This month I’m picking 2 useful Firefox extension for donation.
The first is GTDGMail, a Firefox plugin to implement GTD (Get Things Done) using GMail.
Since I reported using it less than a month ago, I had pretty good result with GTD.
GTDGMail is a Donationware, you can read more about the plugin and the background behind it on their blog.
The second is Gmail Manager, another Firefox plugin. Gmail Manager allows you to manage multiple GMail accounts.
If you have a few GMail accounts which you need to sign in and out frequently to switch between them, you will find GMail Manager very useful.
To the developers I say, “Thanks for creating these useful plugins, my little contribution is on the way.”
No specific purpose this week. Collecting interesting information as I come across them.
(Since, I into GTD recently, I wonder, how can all these del.icio.us links be collected under the reference tag of GTD.)
I was setting up my office wireless LAN, so there are some interesting find regarding wireless LAN.
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This must be the talk of the town. 1.65 billion in stock. Google purchase of YouTube is heating up the internet once again.
I watch YouTube because somehow Google Videos is not available in China. Would the acquisation cut off YouTube from China? I hope not.
Speculation, theory, analysis and naysayer abound.
The biggest take away for me is why buy YouTube when Google has its own video site? It is not the first time Google does this. I recall MeasureMap and Urchin (now Google Analytics). In the standard business textbook there are a few reasons for that:
Whatever the case, I’m just an observer, sometime wondering how all these money game is being played out.
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