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As I was blogging about the latest Drupal security update, and how slow the WordPress team reacts to security exploits, WordPress 1.5.2 was released by Matt, Ryan and co, fixing 10 bugs according to Trac milestone.

Stephan Esser from Hardened-PHP has reported yet another vulnerability in the XML-RPC library depended by many open source projects, and Drupal, the publishing platform that powers FOCUS church website, released security updates for their 4.6.x and 4.5.x branches.

Dean Allan has released TextPattern 4. Wow! Finally. So, what has been changed since TextPattern 3? Huh?! There was no TextPattern 3. The last public release was the 1.0RC5, and it looks like someone else is having fun playing with the version number game today. Well, never mind. The last TextPattern that I had extensively [...]

Via Neil: Hillsong coughs up, Sydney Morning Herald reported Hillsong’s Houstons’ 1 million dollar plus “business”, Leadership Ministries Inc. Just by looking at the article on how each entities related to each other, it sounds like accountants and lawyers were working hard on structure finance there. More like a “business” than “ministry” to me… I [...]

Horror! Horror! When I typed in unsw church into Google this morning, and there came the shock. Our FOCUS church website is no where to be seen in the first page of search result. Second page, third page… and I have finally found our lonely website sitting there in that horrible page 6, together with [...]

Just noticed the vast similarity between Sydney (biggest city in Australia) and phpBB (open source forum software). phpBB Sydney Most popular open source forum software. Searching for “Powered by phpBB” on Google returns 4,770,000 results today. Most crowded city in Australia. Population is around 4 million people and growing. Had a humble beginning, when PHP [...]

MSN has launchde the beta service of its own meta-blogs — “MSN Filter”, which builds on top of popular MSN Space platform. It claims to be “your one-stop shop for the inside scoop on what’s happening across the Web, according to the people who know the most”, but MSN won’t even reveal the blogger (or [...]

Apparently Gentoo Linux now has its own graphical user interface installer, so that n00bs do not need to type everything manually with one hand, and Gentoo Handbook on another. It has both Gtk and Dialog based front-end. Check out the screenshot. Initially I thought, “it is just so wrong! Gentoo and GUI installer?!”, but then [...]

60 years ago, 6th of August 1945. A B-29 Superfortress carrying the Little Boy, a 4 ton atomic bomb containing 60kg of Uranium 235, bombed the city of Hiroshima, Japan. 80,000 civilians killed outright. Many many more continue to suffer ’til this day. It was a hot discussion topic over the last couple of days [...]

Many came back from the MYC 2005 suffered some kind of illness. Must be a nasty virii that were spreading around. Tim was very very sick today. M & J did not come to Bible study, even though they only went to the graduate conference. Both K & V from ESF were sick, and I [...]

On Tuesday, City Bible Forum has started a new series on Ecclesiastes with Al Stewart. It was Al’s favourite book, and there was no lack of things that I have learnt or have heard the first time. We looked at 1:1-11 on Tuesday, and the series would be running for the next 7 weeks – [...]

No, it is not that mouse in superman suite, but a new pointing device released by Apple. What is different about the new Apple Mighty Mouse is its complexity hidden inside its simplicity. It is a complex pointing device. First of all, the most revolutionary from Apple, is that it has Two Buttons and a [...]