Here's another quick post of a screenshot of the new Admin interface of WordPress 2.7 (currently RC1). It has two color schemes, gray and blue. Below is the blue theme, obviously. Heh. Choosing one or the other sports their own icons from the recently concluded WordPress Project Icon. Final release is coming very, very soon.

What is the plural of addendum? Addenda? Anyway, my previous article listed things you can buy for your geeky loved one for Christmas. Those things have a price range from practical to extravagant. Does cost matter when you're buying something for your loved one? For me, not really. I just don't like seeing what I bought that cost an arm and a leg to simply gather dust in the corner after about a week or so. As long as the gift keeps giving for a long time, I consider that money well-spent. No matter how much I try to avoid saying it, I just can't help it. After the previous article, I simply have to say "BUT WAIT! THERE'S MORE!"

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I just bought a new laptop last Friday and, being an advocate of Open Source and everything that is Linux-related, I'm ashamed to admit that Vista, at least Vista Home Premium, was, well, okay, so to speak. What made me realize it was ok was mostly the hardware it was running on. The Blue Notebook, equipped with an Intel Core Duo processor, a gig of RAM, 120 gigs of storage space, a dual-layer multi-dvd burner, and a lot of bells and whistles, simply hummed away while running Microsoft's latest abomination. The notebook, which I'm officially dubbing as BB (as in B.B. King), has bluetooth, firewire, and USB connectivity, as well as a built-in dialup modem and LAN card. The notebook earns two-thumbs-up, as it has technology that can keep up with the times, or at least for a couple of years, and is relatively cheap at PhP 36K (roughly US$ 840). Systems with the same specs averages around PhP 45-60K (US$ 1075 - 1400). What was amazing with BB was that there were buttons that aren't really buttons. It's like a touch screen, except that it's not on the screen, but on the casing itself, and there's a volume control that you just slide your finger on the bar to increase or decrease the volume, much like the one on an iPod.

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