Since Matt Mullenweg announced the release of WordPress 2.5 the other day, I thought I’d go ahead and give it a try. While those of you at home won’t likely notice any difference on the outside, it’s a whole new experience on the back end. I very nearly didn’t upgrade due to some issues with the new release and IIS. Thankfully, they were easily resolved by commenting a few lines of code. I’m also happy to report that my Flickr widget seems to work just fine in 2.5. Hopefully the new blog software will work out to be everything the old one was. However, if you do run into any issues on the site, be sure to drop me a note so I can get it fixed up. Thanks!
OS X update woes…
So I’m working from home the other day and being a Wednesday I’m going through my normal process of installing patches and updates. I didn’t give a second thought to updating my iMac workstation at the office, but perhaps I should have. The next thing I knew, I couldn’t reconnect to my trusty Mac and when I got to the office my worst fears were realized. OS X was toast. OK, so that’s perhaps a little over dramatic, but the fact is I took great care to make sure I was installing the updates in a clean environment. I even rebooted and logged into a clean administrative account before starting the update process. I haven’t lost any data… yet, but as I spent almost an entire 8-hour day working on the problem. (to no avail) It’s looking more and more like I’m going to have to wipe the drive and reinstall. Tomorrow I’m going to backup my account data and give it one more shot before blowing it all away. What a waste. On the other hand, this gives me a real appreciation for the ability of Windows to roll back most updates.
Could Thorium be the answer to clean nuclear power?
New age nuclear | COSMOS magazine
This is a really long article, so you may want to skip to the end if you want to get right to the point. What’s so cool about Thorium is how it breaks down as opposed to Uranium. It’s waste products also remain dangerously radioactive for only 5% of the time of Uranium byproducts. (500 years vs. 10,000) As if that wasn’t enough, there is also the possibility that Thorium-based reactor technology could be used to “incinerate” the waste products of traditional nuclear reactors, cleaning up much of their mess. Oh yea, and the design is incapable of a meltdown. (at least the ADS type…)