Site5 founder dead at young age of 28

Very sad to hear the news about the passing of Matt Lightner, the quite brilliant founder of Site5, my favorite hosting company. I joined Site5 when Matt still owned the company and I’ve always been impressed with the service of Site5, from the technical aspects to the customer service. I felt like he built it [...]

Another Moodle Competitor?

Google has just launched an open-source course/learning software solution called Cloudcourse that may rival Moodle. The more I use Moodle, the more I don’t want to use it, so I guess any alternative is welcome, but…

Oh man, at first glance this looks really sweet. I live my life on Google already and the idea [...]

Woo Hoo! I’m back up again.

I haven’t been paying much attention to my own sites over the last year or so. Which is why it just so happened that all of my sites on one server were hacked! I think I had an insecure password, and they made a mess of everything by inserting Javascript trojans in every .php and [...]

Seven figures for a domain name?? – IPhone.com has been acquired by Apple

All I can say is…wow. Trully incredible. Why didn’t they secure this when the iphone went into development? Here is the original blog post from domain tools on digg:

I can confirm Apple has bought IPhone.com from Michael Kovatch. Michael would not disclose the sale prices but he said it was well worth it to [...]

Sandbox theme competition

I haven’t been paying much attention to WordPress lately, (or really much of anything online, it’s all been about “Wow! A new vacuum cleaner!” and “Why won’t that cat stop peeing on the carpet?”) but this just caught my eye and it looks like a really cool competition.

The Sandbox theme is a semantic, [...]