It looks like my web host, OpenCube, is shutting down by the end of this month due to some issues behind the scenes. The current web servers running are going to be moved to the datacenter of 8 To Infinity. I’ve only heard that their servers are reliable, so perhaps we might be able to survive for a couple more years before we move. If we do move anytime soon.
Goodbye OpenCube. It was nice hosting with you, all one and a half years of the time 
Well, yesterday NOVALISTIC experienced an unexpected downtime which lasted almost the entire day, since morning SST. Right now since there isn’t much about NOVALISTIC, I don’t think too many people would be frustrated to see the site down besides Dad and myself.
Yes, I’m not very happy about the seriously long downtime, but because it’s my first downtime since moving to OpenCube hosting, I forgive.
However if this is persistent and occurs pretty often (say once in a few months) I may have to look for a new host… let’s hope I don’t have to for a long time, or that once I do move, it is because of disk space and not server unreliability.
PHP 5.2.6 has been released, with over 120 bug fixes, several of which are security related
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WordPress 2.5.1 has been released. There are a few security fixes and over 70 bug fixes so it’d be wise to upgrade to this release.
Oh… yes… finally I get to run Ubuntu 8.04 “Hardy Heron” along with Windows XP as a dual-boot system! There’s a little story behind my eventually successful experience with Ubuntu that I’d like to share.
A few days after Matt put up his latest redesign, Justin Tadlock puts up his, called Retro-fitted. I think it looks totally cool. I was kinda waiting for a redesign as well, because the simple blue theme that I’ve seen him use for months was getting pretty boring :/
I’m a couple days late, but Matt Mullenweg has recently finalized and uploaded the new Spring design for his blog. It looks really cool and much more personal than the previous theme, don’t you think?
Firefox 2.0.0.14 ready for download. This release only fixes one vulnerability in the implementation of the JavaScript garbage collector.
I have a feeling that I should get Potassium and Bromine (and my future Sandbox designs) to at least mostly if not fully support IE6. After all, these are CSS (and sometimes image) designs, meaning the Sandbox theme’s template HTML should remain completely intact.
Currently, Potassium and Bromine work in all browsers but IE6, with IE7 currently exhibiting a little issue with Bromine’s sidebars.
I know I have said a few times that Potassium and Bromine won’t support IE6 fully, but I guess I should just put in that little bit more effort. Even if I’m totally unable to achieve full support, I guess I’ll just make a few more Sandbox design users happy.
And no, BoltPress 2.0 cannot display on IE6 at all, but works on all other popular browsers.
Happy CSS Naked Day! Today we commemorate and celebrate web standards (XHTML, XML, CSS and more) by stripping our sites and blogs completely naked on this day to show what it’s like to use semantic, valid markup and have our browsers do the rest.
For WordPress we have the CSS Naked Day plugin, and don’t worry - it works with WordPress 2.5 as well. If you haven’t already and there is still time, download the plugin, activate it and strip! 
phpBB 3.0.1 has been released. But I can’t use it just yet.
I thought I missed it because I had left the CSS Naked Day plugin deactivated and suddenly remembered that it was April 5! Should’ve known I forgot something significant… I’d reminded myself from the First that CSS Naked Day was yesterday but I just had to forget yesterday.
I just checked the official site and it’s now April 9. The plugin has also been updated and the new version, 1.2, has been reflected both at the author’s site and WordPress.org. What a relief.
