5 Years of WordPress!

Today, people all around the world are celebrating that five years ago today the first version of WordPress was released!

Of course, most people’s celebration is limited to Happy Birthday WordPress posts. It’s awesome reading them; most posts (subtlety) demonstrate the authors own participation in WordPress. We’re all the developers of WordPress!

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2luo.com YouTube Phishing? I Hope Not

I just noticed that I tried to login with my YouTube account information at www.2luo.com . I hope it isn’t a phishing or other form of malicious site, but to be safe I changed my password there and on sites where I used a related pattern.

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Out Skype out


Image of Skype logo

“Sorry, I can’t hear you”

Skype on Linux on my ThinkPad T42p running Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy) works great for Skype to Skype, but every call to an “ordinary phone” ends when it begins with the person on the other end telling me they can’t hear me.

“Can you hear me know?”

SkypeOut on Windows works well, though I did have to adjust up the microphone and headset volume a little the first time. I dislike being forced to use Microsoft Windows, but there does not currently seem to be a Linux alternative.

There is an unlimited calling offer to Canada and USA special for $15.00 US for the year ending tomorrow which I have just signed up for. Last year it was a free promotion likely triggered by being acquired by Ebay.