The price of existing homes in the 10 largest US cities fell by 0.6% in July – the steepest drop in 16 years – a survey has found. The cities where prices are still rising are Atlanta, Charlotte, Dallas, Portland and Seattle. However, these have reported that growth is slowing, the index compilers said, with Atlanta and Dallas moving closer to negative territory. We can already say from experience that Atlanta has went to shit…
Author: Greg
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WordPress 2.3 Thoughts
So WordPress 2.3 has just been released, and like I lot of people I uploaded and upgraded but then I reverted…
WordPress 2.3 changes over a lot of things in the back end like adding a native tagging system and removing some “older” elements, so the changes broke my archives (as neglected as they are) and, worst of all, broke my layout, legacy code I guess. Maybe I’m simple minded, but shouldn’t upgrades be, oh I dunno, painless? Or at least relatively?
Now bear in mind I’ve only used it for about 5 minutes, a couple of which was reuploading old files and restoring my SQL database, but I suggest you avoid this release. Why they decided to change the DB schema to cut off a great many things is beyond me, but I’ll stick with 2.2 for now… I suggest you do too, unless of course you use WP straight out the box with next to no plugins running and the default template.
I, on the other hand, am seriously looking for an alternative as I knew this would happen…
EDIT (28/9/07 9:12am): Since Dreamhost finally updated their one-click installer, I took a few hours last night and this morning to update to 2.3, it probably took around 3 hours in total to get things back up to speed…
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Burning Bridges?
Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho has sensationally left Stamford Bridge, the news comes just 24 hours after the disappointing Champions League draw against Rosenborg. A bit of stunning news, especially since Chelsea are only 2 points behind Arsenal in the Premier League and they travel to Old Trafford on Sunday to play Manchester United…
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Wide Open Times
The New York Times has stopped their subscription program unlocking 150 years of history for anyone and everyone. The Times said the project had met expectations, drawing 227,000 paying subscribers – out of 787,000 over all – and generating about $10 million a year in revenue..
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Oden Done For the Year
Portland Trail Blazers rookie center Greg Oden, the No. 1 pick in this years NBA draft, will miss the entire 2007-08 season after undergoing knee surgery Thursday. Shame, everyone was looking forward to Oden and Kevin Durrant bursting onto the scene this year, and it all but wraps up the Rookie of the Year award…
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McLaren Hit With Record Fine
McLaren have been stripped of their points in the 2007 Formula One constructors’ championship after the outcome of the ‘spygate’ row. The team was also hit with a record $100m (£49.2m) fine but drivers Lewis Hamilton and Fernando Alonso will be allowed to keep their points. The team must also prove there is no Ferrari ‘intellectual property’ in its cars next year before they can race.
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Allez Écosse…
11 months removed from what seemed like a dream result at Hampden against the French, today went one better with a fantastic 1-0 performance in Paris which surely seals the deal in Euro 2008 qualifying.
If you told me back when the draw was made that Scotland would be on top of a group that contained both World Cup finalists, 7 wins out of 9 games and held France to a 2-0 aggregate over 180 minutes, I probably would have laughed, it’s still insane to think of… So often we’re used to being the underdogs, going into the last few games hoping opponents slip up and we might scrape 2nd place and then we might get the 2nd weakest team (apart from us) in the playoffs. But no, we’re riding high, in control of our own destiny and loving every minute of it. It’s definitely a long way removed from the start of the infamous Berti Vogts era when the French stuffed us 5-0. I also love that the BBC have given our game pride of place with the headlines even though England just demolished Russia 3-0.
In my little corner of the world the excitement in the build-up was palpable… I couldn’t watch the game, I couldn’t even listen to it in English thanks to the BBC blacking out international listeners, so I had to listen on French radio, knowing just enough to get by, reading text updates on the BBC and when McFadden scored I bounced off my seat, almost screaming… I hate to think what my co-workers thought, didn’t care either. So bring on Ukraine and Georgia to set us up against World Champions Italy at Hampden, easy I tells you, 9 points in the bag. In fact, the Tartan Army better book hotels in Switzerland and Austria now, so to avoid the rush…
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Led Zeppelin to Confirm Reunion
Rock group Led Zeppelin are expected to announce a one-off reunion concert at a press conference on Wednesday. The show is due to take place at London’s 20,000-capacity O2 arena. Let the scramble for tickets begin…
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Iron Man Teaser Trailer
Iron Man Teaser Trailer. Looks totally badass, but then all these trailers do.
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Some Comeback…
Somewhere, Kevin Federline is laughing. An out-of-shape, out-of-touch Britney Spears delivered what was destined to be the most talked-about performance of the MTV Video Music Awards — but for all the wrong reasons. “Kicking off the show Sunday night with her new single, “Gimme More,” Spears looked bleary and unprepared, much like her recent tabloid exploits on the streets of Los Angeles. She walked through her dance moves with little enthusiasm. It appeared she had forgotten the entire art of lip-synching. And, perhaps most unforgivable given her once-taut frame, she looked embarrassingly out of shape. Even the celebrity-studded audience seemed bewildered. 50 Cent looked at Spears with a confused expression; Diddy, her new best friend, was expressionless. Some comeback.” Comedy GOLD!
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Dario Franchitti Jumping to NASCAR
Indianapolis 500 winner (and now IndyCar Champion) Dario Franchitti will become the latest open-wheel star to make the jump to NASCAR. It is reported that Franchitti will sign with Chip Ganassi Racing to drive the No. 40 Dodge beginning in 2008.
