Today, I went shopping for a new suit for my brothers wedding and it was amazing how quickly I succeeded! Right away in the first shop and basically the first suit that I tried on. It’s a great Italian designed dark gray suit and I also picked a great shirt and tie to finish it off. Only problem now is that I still have to look for new shoes to blend in as well. Have been looking for it as well today but without success. I reckon that will take a little longer but yeah, you can’t get it all that easily. Great thing of buying my suit at Suit Supply was that they give you a nice carrying bag for it as well and during the Olympics you get an official supporter t-shirt as well :)
Yesterday, I’ve been playing poker again on the monthly poker night with my colleagues. And it needs to be said that I played completely rubbish – or is it better to speak of sheer bad luck when you loose your lovely two high pairs against tree-of-a-kinds every single time that you’re all in… :S
Anyway, I had a good night out and enjoyed the watching part as well and before we started with poker we had a great meal finished off by eating fruits like strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, red berries, green kiwi’s and pure lemons. And… they tasted all nice and sweet (some even too sweet)!!
You now probably think: “wait a sec, that’s not possible, not all those fruits are nice and sweet and especially lemons aren’t sweet at all“. The only thing I can say to that is: yes they are after taking a Mysterious Fruit Tablet!!
The tablets are totally wicked as your taste buds get completely messed up by them, turning source into sweet. And the funny thing about them is that it’s just a natural product! The Miracle Fruit plant has it roots in West-Africa and the berries are nowadays also grown in Japan for fun I reckon.
The manufacturer claims that “It is the most amazing sugar substitute known to man.” and it probably is. Not sure though if it would be the ideal thing to produce cola with as it makes your coke taste really strange so the next time I will stick to the fruit only.
This year’s edition of Symphonica in Rosso will be done by Lionel Richie and I will be going to the concert with some friends. Just for the fun of it :)
Great news. Today on the WordPress front as version 2.6 “Tyner” has been released as a stable version. The latest WordPress version comes with a long list of improvements. The following list comes from the official WordPress announcement:
- Word count! Never guess how many words are in your post anymore.
- Image captions, so you can add sweet captions like Political Ticker does under your images.
- Bulk management of plugins.
- A completely revamped image control to allow for easier inserting, floating, and resizing. It’s now fully integrated with the WYSIWYG.
- Drag-and-drop reordering of Galleries.
- Plugin update notification bubble.
- Customizable default avatars.
- You can now upload media when in full-screen mode.
- Remote publishing via XML-RPC and APP is now secure (off) by default, but you can turn it on easily through the options screen.
- Full SSL support in the core, and the ability to force SSL for security.
- You can now have many thousands of pages or categories with no interface issues.
- Ability to move your
wp-config
file and
wp-content
directories to a custom location, for “clean” SVN checkouts.
- Select a range of checkboxes with “shift-click.”
- You can toggle between the Flash uploader and the classic one.
- A number of proactive security enhancements, including cookies and database interactions.
- Stronger better faster versions of TinyMCE, jQuery, and jQuery UI.
- Version 2.6 fixes approximately 194 bugs.
Of all the improvements I really enjoy the new image system and the revision control as that where definitely points which needed improvement in previous versions of WordPress. If you want to see the new features in action, the WordPress guys have made a short video in which they explain the new features:
See wordpress.org/development/2008/07/wordpress-26-tyner/ for more background details on WordPress version 2.6.
Woohoo, there is a new sub site (in Dutch) on the gooos.nl domain. It can be found on eee.gooos.nl and is a small gift to my brother and his girlfriend fiancee so they can keep the world informed on there wedding plans. I recon they will use it frequently in the coming months, wedding date is set for October 16th, and I think they will keep on blogging after that as well. For the ones who are currious where the eee stands for, it stands for Erik & Esmé.
