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WordPress 3.0 “Thelonious” released :)

admin — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 01:59:00 +0000

There are a lot of things I’ve been busy with this past few months and while checking on my site, I’m happy to learn about the new release even if I’m not often posting an article. The release is codenamed Thelonious, after the American jazz pianist and music giant Thelonious Sphere Monk.

New features for this release that caught my attention includes:

Multi-site support – Can support multiple sites in a single installation. Merged with MU.
New default theme – After 4 years, they are now replacing their default to one they called “Twenty Ten” to take advantage of the new features of this release. They named it as such so they will remember next year that they have to update it again and the 4 year waiting period will be avoided.
Custom menu management facility – allows creation of custom menus combining posts, pages, categories, tags, and links for use in theme menus or widgets.
Support for shortlinks – Generate tiny url for your article
Bulk upgrade of plugins – Time saver for us who manage it
Custom taxonomies and post types

Here’s a video tour of the version 3 release

Video tour of the new release

If you have enough time to watch, see also the video below. It’s Matt Mullenweg’s (founder of WordPress) speech at the WordCamp San Francisco. It’s a good experience to listen direct from the people who created our favorite things and to be like in the same room with them.

Matt Mullenweg’s State of the Word speech at the 2010 WordCamp San Francisco

POSER! – The history and evolution of the “Peace Sign”

johndoe — Sun, 23 May 2010 10:08:25 +0000

Alain de Botton talks about a kinder, gentler philosophy of success

johndoe — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 23:20:25 +0000

Alain de Botton examines our ideas of success and failure — and questions the assumptions underlying these two judgments. Is success always earned? Is failure? He makes an eloquent, witty case to move beyond snobbery to find true pleasure in our work.

Making Your Meetings Matter

johndoe — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:07:59 +0000

In a perfect world, when you call a meeting, everyone shows up on time, comes prepared, is not distracted by their PDA or laptop, and stays alert and engaged. But it’s not a perfect world. BNET talks to Bert Decker a communications expert, best selling author and entrepreneur, to find out how to make meetings more effective

Tutorial: Breast enhancement using Photoshop

johndoe — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 08:53:02 +0000

By popular demand, enlarging and enhancing breasts in Photoshop! Not recommended for kids!

Imagine Leadership

johndoe — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 03:59:59 +0000

A very good video created by the Harvard Business School’s Leadership Initiative in collaboration with XPLANE. This video has been created in order to generate a discussion of the value and importance of leadership to address some of society’s most pressing problems.

Here’s the video on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuuTlQ0FzEU

Quoting from Nitin Nohria, one of the creators of the video, “It is my desire to inspire people of all ages and social demographics to think about leadership on a broad level, contemplate what it means to them and what individual impact they can have when it comes to leading.” To help get the video out into the world, a remix contest is being held. Download the source files and make your own version and you could win $500 or $250.

More info here: http://hbs-leadership.wikispaces.com/remix-contest

Creativity and originality are strongly encouraged — the aim is to make this video your own.

Here’s the video on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuuTlQ0FzEU

Lost Generation

admin — Fri, 22 May 2009 00:20:14 +0000

I was working the other night when my colleague gave me this video. She said that our president instructed her to give the link to everyone and asked us to take time to see the video. Very inspiring and clever indeed. But don’t take my word for it, you have to see it for yourself.