(I couldn’t resist, while I am on a roll I thought I’d post again….)
It would appear, and rightly so, that Google has remembered its informal corporate motto, “Don’t be evil.” – well with a little help from the blogspere at least. It seems that someone’s 20% turned into helping us all with tips (read prime advertising) at the top of certain search results on Google. Specifically targeting searches for software or services that Google has a competing product they handily suggested their software above the number 1 search result.
One post in the months of November and December and we are already 9 days into January with nothing of note! Well I promise it’s nothing personal and to those who are still sticking around, I salute you.
Sometimes something you enjoy has to take a back seat when work gets a bit on top and at the moment I am juggling working 11 or 12 hour days with having a social life. It doesn’t quite fit together too well but it needs to be done.
Its akin to pulling out your finger nails with pliers but finally I have done it. When your computer takes 5 mins from boot to get to a point where you can use it and you have to click ok three times through errors you know its time to reformat your hard disk.
USB2 had turned back into USB1, I was getting read / write errors all the time and little messages about software I had never heard of. Sick to the back teeth of searching for adware or virus scanning I had to give in. Trouble is I had about 20 DVD’s of backups (general non vital stuff) to do first, but with a Saturday and Sunday spare I wrote off my weekend!!
Box.net has temporarily closed their doors for a feature update and bug fix, much to my inconvenience!! Just kidding, though I will find it helpful if they release some of the features they have talked about here. The ability to edit documents online with the ‘web-based document editor’ will come in very handy indeed…. here’s hoping!
Update: It appears it was a mistake and traffic was routed to a maintenance page by mistake.
Shuttle, the much needed ‘beautification of the WordPress Administration Panel’, is slowly becoming a reality it seems though the most movement appears to be unofficially from Mark over at the Sidejob. As Khaled, one of the original designers, highlights, ‘ WordPress is a community EFFORT.‘ and Mark seems to be doing a great job of implementing it on his own install.
While still a long way from finished, you can keep track on Marks blog of his interpretation of what will become the official dashboard of Wordpress in the future. Kudos for his initiative who knows he may just be involved in implementing this long overdue overhaul of the admin panel.
