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Microsoft rejects Yahoo

chris lin — Mon, 05 May 2008 16:44:43 +0000

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

Drama behind Stage6 Shutdown

chris lin — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 21:33:51 +0000

The story behind Stage6 shutdown. Drama and greed ahoy!

IE7 fixes many CSS bugs

chris lin — Thu, 18 Aug 2005 03:37:24 +0000

Wow, I just found out that IE7 will have a bunch of css bug fixes. No more applying special fixes for IE browsers!

Gmail as a spam filter

chris lin — Thu, 21 Apr 2005 05:08:13 +0000

Using Gmail as a spam filter. I think I am going to give this a shot.

WordPress 1.2 Final Released

chris lin — Sun, 23 May 2004 00:34:01 +0000

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 Released

chris lin — Wed, 12 May 2004 21:45:37 +0000

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