While reading a post on Paul’s blog, I came across a rather interesting guide to “better email” - while I tend to disagree with ever deleting an email as author suggests often, this looks like a worthy read.

SSW Rules to Better Email 

Yesterday the WordPress team announced a new version of WordPress, the blogging software that powers this site, that resolves a couple security issues. So me, being the security conscious person that I am, decided I had to upgrade, that was a two hour adventure.

Due to some of the unique aspects of my theme, I’ve had to modify some of the core WordPress files, that turned out to be a bad idea. I had to convert all of the PHP & JS files to DOS format (after finding a Windows version of unix2dos) and then convert the diff file to DOS format, then the patching began. Getting the patch to apply to my modified files turned out to be an interesting experience, to say the least. Though after about 30 minutes of tweaking, the patch finally applied cleanly.

All in all, it took a little more than two hours, but now I’m secure again.

Rent-A-Coder attracts all types, to that I’m sure everybody can agree. It not only receives traffic from legitimate users seeking professional assistance and are willing to pay for it, but also from people seeking code gurus that work for peanuts. This is a case where even peanuts might be asking a bit much.

Here’s the vital details:

• ASP-based solution.
• Converts HTML to a PDF file.
• Does not require the end user to have Acrobat installed.
• Can be completed in two hours.

This project is flagged as an emergency, with a requested turn-around of two hours. Not leaving much time is he? The other note is that the page should generate a PDF, yet doesn’t require Acrobat be installed to view this file. That’s going to be a challenge.

Now we come to the piece de resistance, the price: To quote our requester:

“as this is small job i will pay only 10 $”

What do people think, that we can work magic?!

I’ve stumbled upon a great new XP Theme (actually from Windows Media Centre 2005), seems this has been around for awhile as a modified version of the WMC theme, though it’s now been officially released by Microsoft for XP.

It’s certainly worth the download.