http://www.theopensurgery.com ...with Jason Dugmore Tue, 22 Jul 2008 12:56:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Did the upgrade to Wordpress 2.6. Everything went smoothly :D there seems to be some nice changes in the admin. Thanks Wordpress people! http://www.theopensurgery.com/22/now-running-wordpress-26/ So last month my ADSL router got stuck by lightning, the third time in six months! So I have been limited to a measly 1GB cap on 3G until I get a replacement router and until Telkom comes and repairs the fault on that line. I then felt the sudden ... http://www.theopensurgery.com/26/rant-so-i-had-to-pay-for-ubuntu-804/ The download day was supposed to start at yesterday at 19:00. There was a delay of about an hour and a half but everything is going well now. The total amount of downloads in getting closer to the four million mark and I think the target of five million downloads ... http://www.theopensurgery.com/18/firefox-download-day-is-going-strong/ Hi, Thought I’d write an update on my ChinesePod experience. Well, it has been as about a month now and I have done around 30 lessons. I have been through lessons on various topics such as colours, ordering food, counting, directions and many more. I must say that I am really ... http://www.theopensurgery.com/16/chinesepod-an-update/ I am sure most readers will be well aware of what CSS is and have a great knowledge of how it works. So for that reason I will not go into any explanations of how it works, if you are a beginner I encourage you to google for some beginner ... http://www.theopensurgery.com/14/css-creating-a-good-starting-template/ I have been looking at learning how to use a PHP framework for some time now. There are many of them, which can be found here: http://phpframeworks.com . I have chosen CodeIgniter as my first framework to learn as it was recommended by peers and its features seemed to be ... http://www.theopensurgery.com/12/codeigniter-my-first-look/ I think its so funny how something as simple as an office chair can make you day enjoyable, are these boring times? No I don’t think so. Its just something about that comfy ‘just right’ feeling that a good office chair can give you. These ones we got are nothing ... http://www.theopensurgery.com/16/so-we-got-these-new-office-chairs%e2%80%a6/ I have always been a fan of dragons ^^, ever since childhood! I came across this photoshop brush pack on deviant art and had to make a link to it. All credit goes to the creator hawksmont at deviant art. Wikipedia: The Chinese dragon is depicted as a long, scaled, ... http://www.theopensurgery.com/10/awesome-chinese-and-dragon-brushes/ Picture source Another picture in the creepy pic series. This of a tree formation, it might be photoshopped...but still sooooo creepy! Enjoy! http://www.theopensurgery.com/09/creepy-pic-of-the-week-week-15/ A friend of mine downloaded the Beta of Ubuntu 8.04 to have a look at whats new. To quote him "...no massive changes in hardy, but lots of nice little ones". I must say I think the first thing everyone noticed was the new default wallpaper, its pretty funky! ... http://www.theopensurgery.com/31/ubuntu-804-a-look-at-the-beta/