michael fulk’s blog

We are already a quarter through the year. Yikes! Where has the time gone?

Wordpress 2.5 was released yesterday and after not hearing anyone complain about issues I decided to upgrade. Because I’m using Subversion it is really easy to update:
svn sw http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/tags/2.5/
And I’m done. All my current plugins seem to work fine and the front end looks normal to me. Yay! Now to figure out what I want [...]

Beginning on Wednesday this week I began reading reports about Adobe releasing Photoshop Express from C|Net, Wired and others. I loaded up their trial briefly on Thursday, but today finally had a chance to actually use it. Photoshop Express is a Flash 9 based image editor offering basic cropping, image modification and filters - all [...]

I upgraded my phone to the Palm Centro (red of course) after work today. And spent the last two hours talking to my siblings and finding my way around the phone. =D

Back in November I found the trailer for the film version of The Other Boleyn Girl. Since then I’ve had a chance to read the book* and watch the movie so I figured I’d say a few things about them. The typical genres I read and enjoy are fantasy and scifi, since this is historical [...]

Tonight was the planning meeting for Podcamp Pittsburgh 3. We’ve finally made an official date selection: October 17-19, 2008. Now we can start on getting everything else ready such as, registration, website, promotional materials, etc.
Afterward, many discussed the 80’s in relation to an upcoming themed birthday party. We’ll see how things come out at the [...]

SaveTheDevelopers.org has come up with a simple campaign to “Say no to IE 6!” And I think I might join in on using the script that they have come up with. It’s not quite the virus I’ve thought up, but anything to get people to upgrade and use some other, more modern browser besides Internet [...]

Well, I guess I won’t be voting in the Pennsylvania April primary this year. While I was home over the weekend, my parents and I talked about how to address permanent residency and other factors related to my living out here in Pittsburgh. Mom suggested that I strongly consider registering to vote in PA and [...]

Especially if you earn money in two states, want to try to take advantage of reciprocal agreements, can’t figure out residency and just want to give up and hope the taxes do themselves.
Tags: taxes

I don’t know a whole lot about cars on the mechanical/repair side of things, but spent this afternoon with my dad and brother up at one of Dad’s coworker’s place looking over my car and other things. It seems that his hobby is fixing up VWs in many shapes and sizes, especially diesel. At least [...]