Daniel Ionescu » Personal http://bdionescu.com Journalist, Blogger & Editor Mon, 30 Aug 2010 18:57:22 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Perks of the job http://bdionescu.com/2010/01/perks-of-the-job/ http://bdionescu.com/2010/01/perks-of-the-job/#comments Thu, 07 Jan 2010 21:17:10 +0000 Daniel Ionescu http://bdionescu.com/?p=879 Over the last few days, a couple of my posts have been quite controversial. Readers have been flooding in, voting (using the thumbs up/down system on PC World) and commenting. The two posts in question are:

Some of the comments have been less than congratulatory at my address, but I’m not complaining. I’m just wondering why some have to disagree in a less polite way. Calling me “biased”, “idiot” or “fanboy” is not going to change my opinion on the matter, especially as the arguments are on my side.

However, the best one I’ve read so far was claiming that I am on Apple’s PR payroll. Well, as good as that might sound, I’m afraid it’s not the case. I’m just giving Caesar what belongs to Caesar.

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Fortunately, it’s back up now, so I will update with my latest stuff in due course.

]]> http://bdionescu.com/2009/12/back/feed/ 0 Yet another change http://bdionescu.com/2009/10/yet-another-change/ http://bdionescu.com/2009/10/yet-another-change/#comments Wed, 21 Oct 2009 21:06:20 +0000 Daniel Ionescu http://bdionescu.com/?p=702 I had to change my WordPress theme again today, as the About and Contact pages wre not displaying any content with my new theme (thanks for those who mentioned it to me). I couldn’t really figure out why, so I decided to change the theme.

I found this other minimal theme called Cleanr, which is in use now. Check out this link if you are on the look for some other cool minimal themes. I particularly like on my new theme the typography, which is large and crisp — and it even has Helvetica on it, if you are reading this from a Mac.

In related news, “Safe mode is used on your server. It’s time to change hosts if yours doesn’t want to upgrade.” was the message that I noticed in my WP Dashboard today. After a quick chat with One.com (my hosting company), it’s official that I will have to change hosting companies if I want to install WP plugins that need this function off. Not happy.

– Later edit: The safe mode problem mentioned above also stops me from using the WordPress Automatic Upgrade plugin, given the fact that my connections is playing up today, so the built-in upgrade mechanism won’t work. Anyway, if you are using WordPress on your own domain, 2.8.5 went up today and has the “the best available protection”. The changes include:

  • A fix for the Trackback Denial-of-Service attack that is currently being seen.
  • Removal of areas within the code where php code in variables was evaluated.
  • Switched the file upload functionality to be whitelisted for all users including Admins.
  • Retiring of the two importers of Tag data from old plugins.
]]> http://bdionescu.com/2009/10/yet-another-change/feed/ 0 Time for a catch-up http://bdionescu.com/2009/10/time-for-a-catch-up/ http://bdionescu.com/2009/10/time-for-a-catch-up/#comments Sun, 18 Oct 2009 20:28:38 +0000 Daniel Ionescu http://bdionescu.com/?p=652 Apologies for not updating my blog in a couple of months. It has been a very busy time, and among the highlights I need to note The Linc’s nomination for the best student website at the Guardian Student Media Awards 09.

I have been also continuing my work over at PC World, but I’m going to spare you a 40+ articles list accumulated over the weeks and below I listed only my posts for this week:

As I won’t have the time to update this blog daily with my PCW posts, I will have a digest of my articles every weekend.

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