After having been hacked 3 TIMES during the last 10 days, the last time having been last night (after spending a couple of hours, yesterday, finding out why this place kept on beaming out to DIR4YOU.COM), I finally took the plunge and upgraded to WP 2.5.1.

Apart from the fact that I finally had to perform a fresh install before importing all the data from the old site, things went pretty smoothly indeed!

Especially once I found out that the WYSIWYG editor could be magically made to appear by enabling the option in my personal profile…

So, back to business: got a couple of days to fill since the 14th!

The management wishes to apologize to its vast audience for the number of articles recently recently posted with “Comments Off“.

Still trying to find out out this happens… 

If you happen to regularly surf on more than one PC, this great Firefox plugin is a definite must!

I happened to stumble across this gem while sitting in the office, one day, desperately trying to remember a link I had visited the evening before.

A quick session with Google offered me a simple, but really effective way of synchronizing bookmarks between my office laptop and our home environment: Foxmarks.

Setup is simple: after having downloaded and installed the app, all you have to do is create an account and setup the frequency of your syncs: that’s it!

After that, any page you bookmark will automatically become a favorite on all the machines you use.

DBW (who is getting increasingly technical) pointed out this great plugin to me: PicLens.

According to the “blurb”,it:

…instantly transforms your browser into a full-screen 3D experience for viewing images across the web. Our new interactive “3D Wall” and built-in search function lets you effortlessly drag, click, zoom, and zip your way around a wall of pictures for an extraordinary viewing experience.

What it does is offer you an alternative view when looking at pics via Google, Facebook and a couple of other apps.

In Google Images, for example, simply click on the additional icon displayed on each picture and, instead of viewing the gallery in the traditional way, you’ll experience that 3D feeling as described above.

Get it here: it’s really worth it!

Isn’t it amazing how creative the French can be when it comes to foodstuff (and Presidents):

Found this great gadget which I can’t wait to try out:

You simply stick it into one of your USB ports and gain instant access to the best crûs there are!

Brilliant!

For you non-IT readers out there, a “change” is a planned interruption within an IT infrastructure.

We usually perform such actions when everyone is asleep or partaking in “other” activities.  The idea being, of course, that the user impact is kept as small as possible.

Ryanair seems to take a different approach:

Ryanair.com Flight Reservation System Down-22-25 Feb 08 inc.

From 22:00 hrs on the 22nd February until 23:00hrs on the 25th February 2008 the Ryanair internet and call centre booking system will be down because of the changeover to a new flight booking system.

Important Customer Information:

All flights between 22:00 hrs on the 22nd February until 23:00hrs on the 25th February 2008 will operate as normal

New Bookings cannot be made on Ryanair.com or via a Ryanair call centre between 22:00hrs on the 22nd February until 23:00hrs on the 25th February 2008

Flight Changes (date/time/route) cannot be made on Ryanair.com or via a Ryanair call centre between 22:00hrs on the 22nd February until 23:00hrs on the 25th February 2008 .

Review Existing Booking - passengers will not be able to review their existing booking details on Ryanair.com or via a Ryanair call centre between 22:00hrs on the 22nd February until 23:00hrs on the 25th February 2008.

Online Check-in – passengers will not be able to check-in online between 01:00hrs on the 22nd February until 23:00hrs on the 25th February 2008. Passengers traveling on the 23/24/25 February who are unable to check-in online can check-in at the airport and will not be charged the airport check-in fee.

Please note:

The Ryanair website: Destination Information, Travel Questions, Car, Hotel and Insurance booking facilities will be available during the entire changeover/upgrade period.

Wonder how they got that one through the review board!