1. Happy BDay Fiedler
2. What a shitty first half! What an amazing comeback! What a shitty ending!!!
3. Who is guarding Stephen Jackson?
4. 5 days till GZA at the El Rey.
5. I don’t know what to say about this picture.

For those of you that are interested – in the very near future, I will be writing technology based blogs on another blog. I will provide all of the details as soon as we are ready to start publishing. The posts will mostly cover Web 2.0 topics such as: Social Media, SEO, AJAX, JSON, Comet, E-Commerce, CSS 3.0 and Blogging itself.

There is a lot to cover and a lot of time I find that WDP is not the best outlet for these posts. It’s tough to follow “Bryan Spears is the father of (sister) Jaime Lynn’s baby” with a post on using JavaScript to create equal column heights in a pure CSS XHTML layout. So we’ll keep talking about irreverent satire and I’ll move the serious posts to a serious place.

The WordPress 2.5 preview just a mini preview of what’s to come.

Holla! Can I get amen?

$hit_it = ($kristen <= 500) ? ’fo shizzle’ : ‘too much’;

I have been a fan of WordPress since it’s incarnation. It was the best (free) alternative to MovableType. Back then I was a Microsoft junky and favored ASP 3.0. I wound up coding my own blogging CMS for the first 2 years of WDP. I remember the night WordPress 2.0 came out. I installed it immediately (on another blog) and I was extremely impressed. The use of AJAX in the admin panel was cool and cutting edge back then. WordPress has always been easy to install and very intuitive. 

For those of you that don’t know, What Da Phuk! is running on a patched version of 2.3.2 (patched xmlrpc). I had been keeping my eye on the development of 2.5 and I must say, moving items around the dashboard does not an update make. Especially not a major release. I guess it’s not a “major release” but the way it’s been hyped it might as well be 3.0.

A few days ago, the WordPress dev crew announced that 2.5 is stable and ready. The key features include:

1. a customizable dashboard
2. built-in tag management
3. media galleries
4. full text RSS feeds (that’s not very impressive)
5. automatic plugin updates
6. faster load times

The load times (which were fixed in 2.3.3) make the update worthwhile. The WYSWYG content editor needs a lot work. They can’t go to Beta with it in it’s current state. The additions to TinyMCE (no, not a rapper) are nice – easy image, video and file upload…but what is up with leaving the old media buttons? They need to get rid of those modules because they take time to load. If I had more “free” time, I would strip Tiny and add FCKeditor or Xstandard to the repository. Hopefully someone will do it or at least create a decent plugin for it.

Overall, I am pretty happy with the 2.5 sneak preview. One thing that desperately needs to be added to the trunk…analytics. Firestats is practically useless. Who is up for adding phpmyvisits…anybody?

1. So many options, so little time.
2. I looked up douche bag in a thesaurus and it said Joe Francis
3. Naked pictures of Audrina from the Hills
4. Ashely “Kristen” Dupre’s parents must be really proud.
5. Faux (pop) rock star Pete Wentz claims he tried to kill himself by taking a bunch of Ativan. He’s such a 14 year-old-girl. He should do a speedball and shoot himself in the head like a real rock star. Taking a bunch of Ativan is something I do nightly.

Houston 69  New Orleans 90

This drops the Rockets to 3rd and keeps the Lakers at 2nd – since the Hornets won the series with the Lakes. 3 days ago they were on the verge of setting a league record by closing in on the 33 game win streak.

Now they are on a losing a streak. I knew that once the proverbial rocket they were riding ran out gas, they would plummet.

I don’t expect them to win another game this season. Seriously, I don’t.

1. This cloak of legality is actually quite liberating.
2. What do you mean you need ANOTHER card?
3. Skip 2 My Lou just tore up the Lakers.
4. Dallas, Utah…let’s do dis!
5. I wonder if there are Rock Band rock bands?

Yeah, I know. That’s a damn bold statement. And it’s only true for right now. But here is the problem. It’s March. This isn’t a fluke win streak happening in December. We are 1 month away from the playoffs. They don’t have Yao Ming. In fact, while Van Gundy and Mark Jackson argued over which place TMac falls on the MVP list, he was nonexistent. Today was Rafer Alston day.

What’s up with Van Gundy calling Battier, “Shawn,” all game? Whatever his name was today, he did a good job getting in Kobe’s face.

Damn, the Lakers needed this game. We can’t lose 2 in a row. Not right now. Not to Houston. Not 22 straight. No Yao, barely McGrady. Damn!

BREAKING NEWS:

Gooldtooth Celebrity Spokesman, Smush Parker, was released from the Miami Heat and has signed with LA Clippers. source 

• Houston extends their win streak to 20.
• The Sixers beat the Pistons.
• The Hornets stomp on the Spurs
• The Nets beat the Cavs
• Kobe thinks they Lakers had good D against the Raptors.

Harold and Kumar 2, Escape from Guantanamo Bay debuted at SXSW. Just one week after I was in Austin, Harold, Kumar and NPH hit up the college town for the South by South West Film and Music Festival.

While not being a box office hit, Harold and Ku became and instant DVD and cable classic – much like Old School. Everyone loves Roldie and that new guy on House. The new H&K hits theaters April 25th.

Hmmm….you’d think they would want to move that up a weekend. Just an idea.

 Here’s a link to the trailer for Harold and Kumar 2.

During the post game interview, Kobe repeatedly praised his team on their defensive effort. They gave up 108 points to Toronto…without Chris Bosh…on their home floor.

They may have won this game, but they let tiny TJ Ford have his way in lane. Not one defender was able to stop TJ from hitting the tear drop. Watching D Fish get burned like that reminded me of the playoffs in 04. 

I really hope Kobe was joking. He had a terrific offensive game, and so did LO….but seriously! If he thought tonight was a great example of defensive lock-down…we are in for a long (short) post-season.