Apparently Microsoft is looking to shut down the hackers who developed the Conicker aka Downadup Virus. They are so serious that they have offered a $250,000 reward leading to the arrest and conviction of the developer. I don’t recall Microsoft ever doing this before, wonder what it is about this virus that gives them the […]
Archives for February 2009
WordPress 2.7.1 Released
I am in the process of updating a few of my clients wordpress installations to version 2.7.1 today. This new version includes fixes for approximately 68 support tickets that were submitted. It is a stable release and if you had issues w/ version 2.7 breaking your installation or conflicting with some of your plugins you […]
Ministry 2.0 / Austin, Texas
I am considering making this trip to attend Ministry 2.0 at Austin, Texas. There appears to be a lot of good sessions related to blogging, podcasting, and social networking. All three of these areas are avenues that we are pursuing with our Ministry Web Solutions. If anyone else is attending this year, please let […]
Projects: StruttinBucks Outdoors
I have been working with the crew from StruttinBucks Outdoors, an outdoor reality show that airs on Fox 16 and a few other media outlets. These guys probably have more fun at work than I do! They are also a great group of Christian guys that are extremely talented. I have been helping them with […]
Facebook Flashmob (Verizon Spoof)
When I heard about this Facebook Group that assembled inside of a train station this weekend in London I couldn’t help but get a kick out of it. They were spoofing the “verizon network” commercials you see on television. There are about a half dozen or so variations of these commercials where they have thousands […]
Alleged phpBB Hack
If you are unfortunate enough to have a bunch of PHPBB installations on your servers you should probably check out this post that my server admin passed along to me this morning. PHPBB has been risky business for a while in my opinion, we have weened most of our clients away from PHPBB over the […]