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Seen this around lately? Yup, Flickr has gone video now. They don’t just host your photos anymore but now your videos too. However, Flickr is not here to take over from YouTube. 90 seconds videos and pro users only. ![](/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/2412204725_5ea04db1ef1.jpg" alt="" width=“500” height=“376” srcset="/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/2412204725_5ea04db1ef1.jpg 500w, /wp-content/uploads/2008/04/2412204725_5ea04db1ef1-300x225.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px" />][2] The Flickr team refers to videos as long photos thus their decision to limit videos to 90 seconds in length....

Finally managed to upgrade to WordPress 2.5 yesterday. Loving the automatic update and install feature for my plugins. However, the Popularity Contest plugin and Popularity Contest Widget are not compatible with WordPress 2.5 yet. Get WordPress 2.5

A friend needed help changing the system date on his Linux box today. This is usually a simple task for Linux users but newbies tend to get confused by the "date [-u|--utc|--universal] [MMDDhhmm[[CC]YY][.ss]]" line in the man page. To simplify, this is how you do it. Set the current date to April 7 2008 8:42:45pm. The easy way, #date -s "7 April 2008 20:42:45" The harder way, #date 040720422008.45 The break down: MM DD hh mm YYYY ss MM = month = 04 DD = day = 07 hh = hour = 20 mm = minute = 42 YYYY = year = 2008 ss = second = 450 ...

I tend to be slightly skeptical nowadays when the words “high peed” and “mobile” are used within the same sentence. You can’t blame me, adverts all around boast blazing speeds over mobile network but do you ever hear the same feedback from their subscribers? Hardly ever right. Well, here’s a another new kid on the block U Mobile with the same claims. Hopefully they deliver. Read more about U Mobile on Wikipedia....

Can’t believe I’m 2 versions back. Not been torrentting much the past weeks thanks to work. Anyway, the latest version out is 0.5.8.7. Mostly bug fixes and tweaks. Read the changelog or download it here.