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A nifty feature on WordPress 2.7-'hemorrhage' , Plugin Browser/Installer, lets you to select and install plugins from a web browser. There's no need for the typical download-unzip(-FTP, if you don't have shell access) workflow that we currently have. You can search using plugin names and descriptions, tags, or author. Once you find the plugin you need, installing it is just a matter of clicking on the link. The link provides the description of the plugin, much like what's available through the WordPress plugin directory. You can even activate the plugin from the same popup overlay. Speaking of the nightly build, the dashboard sports a new look -- sidebars instead of header tabs:

The MIT Technology Review presents its annual list of tech innovators -- all under 35 years old -- whose "inventions and research (they) find most exciting". Among them were Drupal founder, Dries Buytaert ; Twitter creator, Jack Dorsey ; and Wii hacker, Johnny Lee . Interestingly, majority of the innovators are from Microsoft (including Lee). Digg's Kevin Rose and Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg were in last year's list.

Originally uploaded by jgotangco . Licensed under CC by-nd . This is the first one (I think?) in the Philippines, and it would be awesome to meet fellow geeks. Plus, the venue's just a couple of blocks away from the office. Now, what should I share?

Update : This is now fixed. There's this nagging message from AVG Free that came up just a few hours ago. The Update Manager says that update has failed because "A .bin file was missing." My immediate reaction was, "Whoa! Something corrupted my install?" Before investigating further, though, I opted to download the updates manually. And what do you know: A broken link. The support forum doesn't reveal much, except that the recent update was corrupted, and a new set of files is on its way. I wonder how the paid version fared. Would there be an SLA for providing a fresh set of updates? There should be. I used to work for an anti-virus company , and though I didn't have direct client (users) interaction, I understood from the support point-of-view how critical updates were and the pressure it took to ship fresh ones out the door. Here's hoping the AVG guys are up to par. They've been doing great so far.

I just noticed that my Twitter timeline RSS is not being displayed in my tumblog , so I went back to Yahoo! Pipes to sniff around. It appears that the Twitter feed is not coming up valid (or Pipes could not parse it). ( Update : The Twitter feed is valid , according to the W3C, but the Feedburner one is not . Oookay, so Pipes accepts an invalid feed, but not a valid one?) As a workaround, I plugged in the feed through Feedburner and fed the Feedburner RSS back to my Pipe, et voila! my tumblog is back to normal. In related tumblog news , popular social bookmarking site, del.icio.us, has been rebranded as, plainly, delicious.com . The old URI still works -- I like it better than the boring new one (love the new layout though, much cleaner and faster), which lacks the, er, whimsy-ness of the old domain -- but just to be sure, I upgraded the link to the new feed .