Bogdan`s venting place

Well,
Today is Christmas Eve. The world is full of hatred, duplicitous people, hunger and injustice. The same world however, is also full of good people, hope and kindness. It seems, that during Christmas time one can find mostly decent people, who become more gentle, more understanding, and most of all – much kinder.
Christmas spirit is evident in California, where so many cultures meet, and a lot of weird things tend to happen. Christmas however is special. I spend 2 hours walking around my neighbourhood taking pictures of beautiful Christmas lights and ornaments. For few moments I forgot how year 2008 was miserable for me and others. I met many parents walking with their children, taking pictures, smiling and wishing each other Merry Christmas. I only wish, that during this period people think less about shopping, and reflect more on their loved once.
So, Merry Christmas everybody!

Christmas in reflection

Christmas 2008 in California

All of the news coming from the Wall Street, from State Department, and last election results got me into a very depressing mood. Luckily, Wordpress.org announced a new version of their software.

The upgrade itself didn’t take that much time¹, and off I went into the new administrative interface. Different to be sure, but I do agree with the authors – much quicker and easier to use. I took some chances with this one, but it looks that there are no show stoppers² that would make me consider a rollback. So far, I am happy camper.³

As I was forgetting the story of the crooked investment advisor from New York» , I looked into few Wordpress plug-ins. I decided to give them a “go”.

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1. Finally, I stopped fighting the basic requirements of deleting 2 directories, as the instructions suggested [↩]
2. I still remember a bad aftertaste from a 2.3.x to 2.5.x upgrade [↩]
3. UPDATE: As I was doing the “last minute” check, I discovered a bug in “AJAX Comments” module. Had to disable it, until a fix is available. [↩]