Coredump

Quick bits of status updates:

• Updated Coredump to WP 2.6.5, which fixes an XSS exploit vulnerability and some bugs. Since I installed using SVN, the update was a trivial

  svn sw http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/tags/2.6.5/ .

  and a visit to /wp-admin.

• Updated my WordPress sandbox to 2.7-beta3-9909. Again, I use the SVN trunk so updating was a breeze.
• Upgraded one of my boxes, marty, to Fedora 10. Now, upgrading Fedora is always a bit more involved.

  I had to clean up the old yum cache (using yum clean all; point yum to the new release; do a yum upgrade; and a final package-cleanup --orphans to check for un-updated packages. After that, I pointed grub to the newly installed kernel (2.6.27.5-117.fc10), and rebooted.

  The new boot screen takes some getting used to, but the box boots surprisingly quick (~30 seconds? I did not check). And voila! I’m on Cambridge.

You’ll probably notice the cool Flash tag cloud on the sidebar. That’s courtesy of Roy Tanck’s WP-Cumulus plugin. Thanks, @sofimi for the heads up.

I’m still on K2 (RC3), but I’ve ditched its Sidebar Manager for WP’s widgets. SBM has been causing lots of issues for me lately, but I haven’t had the time to muck around it. (When did I ever have time for anything, anyway? ;)) It’s working fine in my sandbox, though — well, RC5 at least, but I’m not that keen on porting my tweaks yet to that release.

I haven’t been posting here lately. Like a few other bloggers I know, Twitter (and FriendFeed) has been the choice for posting “lifestream” tidbits. But, heck, I don’t even use Twitter that much now (prolly, the IT sec audit at work has something to do with it, heh).

(… And a partridge in a pear tree. Heh.)

Not much updates from me, except:

• Got three more great finds from Booksale: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlein, The Confusion (Vol. 2 of the Baroque Cycle) by Neal Stephenson, and Something Wicked this Way Comes by Ray Bradbury — all for under a hundred pesos.
• I had the pleasure of trying out two sleek notebooks: an Acer Aspire Gemstone and a Gateway T-6311. Both were from balikbayan kamag-anaks who asked me to, er, stress-test their new toys. More on this when I’m done playing with them. Suddenly, I’m craving for a replacement to Mathilda (my Dell Inspiron) — not!
• My bro gave me a Seagate FreeAgent Desktop external hard drive. Yay! It’s 500 GB in a cool black finish, with a footprint of an office stapler. It now rests next to the 19″ LCD monitor. All I need now are a cheap NAS solution and a UPS, and my home computing setup is complete.
• Due to several NDAs I signed, I couldn’t blog much about what I do at work. Let’s just say it’s been a very interesting engagement. I’ll be in between team deployments (but with the same client) next quarter, so that gives me some breathing space to take on vendor and in-house training. My blogging will more or less be the same — I’m actually thinking of changing my tagline to “Posts of a weekend blogger”.

Originally uploaded by iandexter.

Julian Emmanuel’s first birthday is coming up.

I gave this flyer a grungy look because it fits Julian’s personality well. He’s got that gritty look in him, and just the right amount of mischief peeks through every time he smiles. We call him “sutil”, a Filipino term that’s similar to “naughty” but not quite there.

(Fonts from dafont.com. Grunge brushes from bittbox.com.)

UPDATE: It’s finally up, my review of 2007 in pictures, cover-flow style.

I’m building up a review of 2007, using Flickr photos. Nothing spectacular — just a retrospective tool for me. We have had many blessings this year, and what better way to reminisce than through pictures. For now, I’m collecting photos from various sources, one of which is provided by Flickr: