Hey! Who remembers the “Scream Sheets” of William Gibson’s future? All those disposable computer screens that could bring you the latest in the news? Well, Amazon’s going to be the first one to try and market such a device with the new Kindle: a wirelessly-connected little PDA type thang that connects to their service for free.
Kindle will allow you to connect to Amazon, find the book or newspaper you want to read, buy it and read it from anywhere. You don’t need a wireless Internet connection service like Verizon or AT&T, because Kindle comes with its [...]
I’ve commented on this elsewhere, but I’m really hoping that the new “open network” idea Verizon has floated out there also means they’ll consider unblocking the phones they blocked when we bought them. I want to mo-blog, dangit!
It was with much anticipation and a fair amount of trepidation that I awoke this morning, prepared to upgrade WordPress MU to the new 1.3 version. The new version brings MU in line with the WordPress 2.3.1 codebase, including its new and complex “taxonomy” structure, while also implementing a bunch of MU-specific upgrades. I’ve been looking forward to working with the tagging concepts for a while, now, but upgrading MU is not an easy or entirely clean process.
Because unlike WordPress, you can’t just overwrite files from the old version. Well, you can occasionally, but in this instance, [...]
