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Microsoft rejects Yahoo0
chris lin posted in Internet, Technology on May 5th, 2008

I haven't been following closely at what has been going on with Microsoft's negotiations to take over Yahoo besides hearing the intent to buy and last week when Microsoft was mentioning it might pull out. Well apparently it did over the weekend and as a result, the Yahoo stock has plunged which is what analyst would say if Microsoft were to pull out. Now, why is Yahoo not accepting Microsoft's offer anyways? Is it because of the stigma attaches to them as the big bad bully? A lot of shareholders are upset over Yahoo's rejection of Microsoft, which is warranted considering how their share has been doing recently over the last few years. I need to read more on this now

Bloglines.com0
chris lin posted in Internet, News on October 20th, 2004

Yea, I know I am late on some things, Bloglines.com being one of them. I am now using this to read all my weblogs and sites I visit and it tracks when they update and tells me so I don't need to visit until it updates.

Taken from their about page

Bloglines is a FREE online service for searching, subscribing, creating and sharing news feeds, blogs and rich web content. With Bloglines, there is no software to download or install — simply register as a new user and you can instantly begin accessing your account any time, from any computer or mobile device. And it's FREE!

Bloglines is a window to a whole new world of dynamic content that is being created and distributed over the new "live" web. You can make your own personalized news page tailored to your unique interests from our index of tens of millions of live internet content feeds, including articles, blogs, images and audio. And it's FREE!

Bloglines shields you from the confusion of news feed standards — RSS, Atom, and others. Bloglines allows you to search for, read and share any updates from your favorite news feed or blog regardless of its authoring technology. And it's FREE!

Last, but not least, Bloglines provides you with the tools you need to begin creating your own clip blogs and blogrolls. Become a publisher, share your thoughts and opinions! And it's FREE! Get started today!

Most _modern_ blogging systems work. I know for a fact B2, MT, and WP all have feeds and GM doesn't.

Use it, it's free and a really good organizer.

Random Wordpress blogs0
chris lin posted in Internet, News on October 12th, 2004

Hey guys, I wrote this random script thing that'll grab a random WP powered blog from the blog list 2fargon graciously gave me and redirect you to it.

Check it out HERE. Each time you click the link, it'll go to another wp blog. There are a lot of dead ones and I am planning on making some sort of top bar with like a link to go to another blog and a report dead blog so I can keep the wp blogs clean. If you guys want it on your blogs just use

Random Wordpress Blog

Tell me what you think

Wordpress 1.2 Final Released1
chris lin posted in Internet on May 22nd, 2004

Crap, right when I thought I upgraded to the newest I find out Matt released 1.2 final. Anyways, features listed here:

• Sub-categories: Categories can be arranged hierarchically and infinitely deep. Multiple categories combined with sub-categories gives WordPress the most comprehensive taxonomy system of any blogging software available.
• OPML Export and Import: You can import and export OPML to systems like Bloglines or desktop aggregators like NetNewsWire and FeedDemon.
• Automatic Thumbnail Creation System: WordPress has a refined upload feature that automatically creates thumbnails any size you want.
• Encrypted passwords and cookies: All passwords in the database and password cookies are encrypted, ensuring maximal security.
• New plugin architecture: The new plugin architecture simplifies modifying or extending WordPress' features. Plugins can now hook into nearly every action WordPress does.
• Localization of WordPress and Unicode support: The efforts put into internationalizing WordPress have borne fruit, and now you can adapt WordPRess to work in your native language. Several translations are already available.
• Advanced comment moderation: You can now fine-tune your moderation filters in a manner very similar to blacklists for other weblog tools. There is also mass-editing of comments, which makes it a snap to delete hundreds of comments with the click of a button, if necessary.
• Post preview: Near-instant previews while writing or editing articles help you proofread and make improvements before finally presenting your work of art to the world.
• RSS and LiveJournal Importers: The new RSS import script is the closest thing to an universal importer. It allows you to import entries from Radio weblogs even other blogging tools that we may not support specifically. The LiveJournal importer finally lets you have a full blooded self-hosted weblog without losing all your old LiveJournal posts.
• Unlimited update services: Now you can define multiple weblog change monitoring services to be pinged when you post.
• Directory flexbility: Now you can have all the WordPress files in one directory and the weblog in a higher level directory.

Get it at their site or here.

I'm going to blog later.

Wordpress 1.2 Delta Released2
chris lin posted in Internet, News on May 12th, 2004

Newest version of Wordpress, which powers this weblog, is released. Well, it was released several days ago, it is just that I noticed it today and installed it.

View the release here and download it here