Quite a busy week last week, couldn’t really blog a lot on the latest stuffs, my apologies to you guys. Somehow, I still manage to attend Penang Blogger’s Gathering on Sunday, August 21, 2005, at Coffee Bean, Gurney Plaza. Almost everybody attended was blogging about it, and I think I’ll be the last to talk about it in the coming days. Sigh… Too many tasks to finish, too little time. Anyway, it was really a good experience meeting up other bloggers and I enjoyed it a lot.

Here goes the summary of what actually wrote last week.

Monday
I started off the busy week, with an upgrade of my blog to WordPress 1.5.2, mainly due to a critical flaw found if PHP Directive of register_globals is turned ON. I did a workaround to remedy the flaw before upgrading, by putting in some commands in to the .htaccess file. For me, whenever a new version of script or software, it is always advisable to upgrade for security purposes and for the enhancement the new version got, so I did the upgrade.

Tuesday
A source announced that Microsoft is planning a worldwide public BETA for MSN Messenger 7.5, the next version of MSN Messenger to stay in competition to the latest versionYahoo Messenger 7. Before the next version of Internet Explorer (IE) is launched, Microsoft IE Blog revealed the new logo of IE.

Wednesday
A9.com, a subsidiary of Amazon.com, launched A9.com Maps Beta, a service that shows users an interactive map with street-level images, as a respond to two other mapping services, Google Maps and MSN Virtual Earth. On the same day, there was a security alert to users of Windows 2000 and some early versions of Microsoft XP as a new worm has been found, which will shut down the specific OS once infected.

Thursday
I found an article talking about a Guinness World Record set by a group of 1073 people playing Counter-Strike 1.1 simultaneously in a LAN party in 2004 !!

Friday
On Friday, I tried out an interesting piece of software, and shared the experience in using a software called OriMado, which allows you to fold the window in Windows OS by moving the mouse in certain directions.

Saturday
A source revealed that the entire city of San Francisco of the United State will become a wide scale WiFi zone for free or at least at minimal charges. So, everyone might be able to connect to the Internet from any corner in San Francisco.