OK, so right after my posting about the Mental Minister, I fired an email to a good friend of mine, MT, who said “Eeks!” and promptly did an “information alert” to certain people.. The end result is that in less than 24 hours, the situation has been remedied 
They sure work fast, but the screen caps recording this minor bump in the Information Superhighway have been preserved for all time…
EDIT: Check out the Wikipedia Diff
I’m not sure who’s responsible, but the question is was it intentional or merely a mistake? Singapore’s revered founding father called “Mental” on Wikipedia? Interesting.. I wonder if MM Lee will be suing Wikipedia for defamation.. Nah, this is just another example of the terrible things that can happen in the “un-policed” Internet right? Most terrible, such disrespect! Click image to zoom in..
Editor’s Note: This “mistake” was discovered by Eileen <- I was forced to write this sentence to credit the source…
Just as soon as I upgraded the whole of DeepWave to 2.0.6, I find out that 2.0.7 is right around the corner. Sigh.. Nevertheless, I think I’ve nailed down the proper procedures, along with the necessary diffs and backup scripts to do another painless upgrade in the future.
Another interesting piece of news is that some of the key members of WordPress are starting a new project called Habari. It remains to be seen if it will be as good as or better than WordPress of course. Right now, only SVN checkout is allowed, but some kind of developer preview will be available soon, I guess. It is interesting though that in this free world, it is possible to challenge the "establishment" and forge your own way should you feel the need to do so. Now, while many may highlight the various advantageous of a more authoritarian approach, it is important to realise that this sort of "rebellion" every once and a while is very useful to produce the quantum leap forwards.
For example, Apple’s new iPhone is a dramatic change from convention. One of its groundbreaking changes is introduced simply by having only one hard button on the entire device. Some (including myself) argue about tactile feedback, SMS-ing in the dark, a hard-button slient/vibrate mode (ala Palm Treo) etc. But regardless, the iPhone is a (dare I say it) revolutionary device. Which phone company executive would have ever agreed to removing every button except for one? So, it took a rebellious, dare-to-be-different, no-past-historical-baggage company, namely Apple, to "rebel".
I’m sure there will be all sorts of issues with the iPhone, from 3rd-party apps, to battery life etc. But simply because it is a device that dares to be so different, using it will probably be a very different experience. I can’t wait. Ditto for Habari.
For those of you who have been looking for a way to hide the dashboard in WordPress from ordinary users, I’ve just put up a plugin that does exactly that and is used right here at DeepWave. Enjoy!
I’ve just activated the WordPress Notify Members Plugin.. It gives users an option in their profile page to receive an email notification whenever a post or comment is added to the page.
To use it, just register on this site, and select a notification level in your profile. Let me know if it does or doesn’t work
Many of these are long overdue, but I finally managed to get around to posting them. More than 60 new photos have been added to the Gallery including my most recent trip to Japan and a photoshoot at Sentosa on new year’s day with some friends.
Photography is really healthy living. After walking around for half a day carrying weights, I was dead tired. But I felt good thinking I might actually have lost some weight.
Then we ended up having supper until midnight at Bedok Block 85. Sigh..