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I just upgraded WorldBeatPlanet to

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I just upgraded WorldBeatPlanet to PHP-Nuke 6.0. The upgrade went flawlessly.

I’ve got it down to a quick & simple routine. Upload all of the files to a temporary directory, since uploading can take a while. When everything’s up, run the upgrade script, and then move the uploaded files into the live directory.

Since copying the files to another directory takes a lot less time than uploading, only a few seconds pass from the time I run the upgrade script until the upgrade is complete with all of the files in place, and there’s little or no downtime. It did take me a few minutes to activate some new modules & rearrange blocks, but the site remains usable during that time.

Peter Gabriel's new CD, "UP"

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Peter Gabriel’s new CD, “UP” arrived today. The first track, “Darkness” scared “Cody”. It starts out very soft, and then there’s a sudden burst of noise. I have very mixed feelings about this album, but I need to listen to it a few more times. This isn’t an accessible pop album like “So”. It’s very dark & brooding. “Barry Williams Show” is the only upbeat song. I’ve heard at least two of the songs, “Signal to Noise” & “I Grieve” before. One pleasant surprise was Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan’s vocals on “Signal to Noise”.

Was it worth waiting 10 years? I’m not sure yet. It will be playing on my stereo for a while, though.

I finished an all-day meeting

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I finished an all-day meeting with the manager I work with. I’ve worked with him for almost a year, but we never met until now. Everything went very well. If certain other things happen, very good things could happen for me. Keeping my fingers crossed…

I'm now attempting to build

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I’m now attempting to build Chimera. I checked out the sources from CVS and it’s now running. It will probably continue to run all night.

I just sent out the

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I just sent out the first MacMegasite newsletter, which announced the new features & themes I added. We have 34 members with 6 subscribed to the newsletter. Yesterday I enabled the journal feature & private messages with a new user block. I just added a FAQ entry about writing for MacMegasite and enabled the FAQ module.

Tomorrow I’ll be meeting with a manager, so I probably won’t write too much.

Chimera 0.5 is now becoming

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Chimera 0.5 is now becoming my favorite browser. I’ve been using it as my only browser since last night, and I find that it works with every site I’ve visited (except it sometimes seems to forget cookies). Even though it lacks some features, I really love its speed – this is the only browser that really feels fast and not bloated. It’s even faster than OmniWeb.

WSJ.  Wired.  The music industry

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WSJ.  Wired.  The music industry is set to launch an ad campaign against P2P file sharing.  “People going into computers”??

Ms. Spears, for example, is quoted in the ad saying: “Would you go into a CD store and steal a CD? It’s the same thing: People going into the computers and logging on and stealing our music.”

[John Robb’s Radio Weblog]

She proves again what an airhead she is. If file sharing means an end to manufactured pop, maybe it’s a good thing. The recording industry is producing crap and trying to sell it at inflated prices. I think the audience is smart enough to reject it. If quality music was available at a reasonable price, people would buy it. They’re just tired of the junk they’re being sold and they’ve stopped buying it.

I'm now setting up a

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I’m now setting up a backup server for MacMegasite under my reseller account. Right now it looks like the main server is back up, but if the problems continue, I can switch over the DNS entry. Since both sites share the same database (which is running on my mc-development.com server), both sites will have the same content.