Musings of Wired Pig

Microsoft has extended the sales deadline for Windows XP amid users who are reluctant to upgrade to Vista.
From: InformationWeek -
Responding to some customers’ lukewarm embrace of Windows Vista, Microsoft said it will extend by several months availability of the operating system’s predecessor, Windows XP. The company said it will make the full version of Windows [...]

With the abuses by Myanmar government and military still going… there is problem, for the government. That problem is the Internet. And the Myanmar government has stepped in to make sure that whats happening cant get out as easily.
From: IDG News Service -
The loss of Internet access in Myanmar has slowed the tide of photos [...]

I have made the blog friendly to iPod Touch users. Enjoy.
The user-agent string for the Touch is:
Mozilla/5.0 (iPod; U; CPU like Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/420.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0 Mobile/3A110a Safari/419.3
I am using iWPhone 0.1.1 as my iPhone/iPod Touch theme. The current version is 0.1.2 with Touch support. If you dont want to upgrade [...]

From AP -
Court won’t declare chimp a person (the title says it all)
VIENNA, Austria – He’s now got a human name — Matthew Hiasl Pan — but he’s having trouble getting his day in court. Animal rights activists campaigning to get Pan, a 26-year-old chimpanzee, legally declared a person vowed Thursday to take their [...]

MONTERREY, Mexico (Reuters) – Three Mexican minors detained in California on suspicion of smuggling drugs stole a U.S. Border Patrol car while still wearing handcuffs and drove it back across the border to Mexico.
And how do you tell your supervisor that your car was stolen? Honest Boss, they WERE cuffed….

I had to disable podPress 8.3 due to errors accessing uploaded pictures. Will try podPress when its updated to work with WordPress 2.3

To date there have been 132 officers who have died in the line of duty. Today I add three more to the blog. One died of gunfire, another from a vehicular assault and the last in an aircraft accident.
From ODMP.org -
Detective Mario Moreno was shot and killed while attempting to serve an arrest warrant on [...]

Yesterday I was hit by:
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Gigamega.bot/1.0; +http://www.gigamega.net/bot.html)
IP: 75.125.52.98 (V) (IP) (IP2)
So I went to the URL given and got a 404(link) error. The bot has now been blocked.

Yes, I am taking up a lot of bandwidth on this. But the blog is coming along well. I am moving over unaffected DB tables fromt he old into the new DB, moving over themes and plugins… then the blog should be fully up and running again.

I managed to FUBAR my upgrade from WordPress 2.2.3 to 2.3
So, today I am spending my pre-work time moving over all the content from the goofed up install and DB to a new folder and fresh DB.