Well this looked odd:
Windows Live Messenger Lorem ipsum
I am using Windows Live Messenger 2009 (Build 14.0.8089.726). It’s the latest version I think.
Opps. If you’re on Snow Leopard, never log into your guest account. Logging into the guest account then back to your account can cause your account’s home directory to be deleted as though it is brand new. It is speculated that Apple’s Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard deletes the user’s home directory instead of the guest’s directory.
Snow Leopard bug can delete account data
A bug has been reported in Apple’s new Snow Leopard version of OS X that can result in the loss of an entire user account’s data. The glitch seems to be triggered by using a Guest account and then trying to log back into a regular account.
According to multiple topics on the Apple Support discussion boards, the problem can occur when a user logs into their Mac’s Guest account — whether by accident or on purpose — and then tries to log back into their regular account.
In some cases, users have reported finding their regular account empty of data, as though it were a brand new account.
Speculation is that something makes Snow Leopard treat the regular account like a Guest account, from which by default all data is deleted upon logout. Further speculation is that the problem occurs when the Guest account was already enabled in Leopard before being upgraded to Snow Leopard. (Source: IT Wire)
This is really bad if it’s true. Apple has yet to confirm this.
It annoys me that my Recently Added and Top 25 Played are all not in order when they’re in my iPod Touch. The Smart Playlist in iTunes looks correct but it never syncs correctly to iPod Touch. In my iPod Touch, it just shows in some random order.
How to fix iPod Touch Smart Playlist appearing randomly
I chanced upon the fix to this by unchecked “Live Updating” in Smart Playlist. Just click on the smart playlist and choose “Edit Smart Playlist”, then uncheck “Live Updating”. It does syncs in order now although it is still not ideal.
Smart playlist in iTunes
This has been broken since the OS 3.1 update. Currently at iPod Touch OS 3.1.2, it still does not work. 
This is just a temporary fix, at least my playlist look more sensible.
Ubuntu’s bug number 1 is reported by Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical Ltd. and as of 2009, provides leadership for the Ubuntu operating system.
Bug #1 in Ubuntu: “Microsoft has a majority market share”
Microsoft has a majority market share in the new desktop PC marketplace.
This is a bug, which Ubuntu is designed to fix.
Non-free software is holding back innovation in the IT industry, restricting access to IT to a small part of the world’s population and limiting the ability of software developers to reach their full potential, globally. This bug is widely evident in the PC industry.
Steps to repeat:
- Visit a local PC store.
What happens:
- Observe that a majority of PCs for sale have non-free software pre-installed.
- Observe very few PCs with Ubuntu and free software pre-installed.
What should happen:
- A majority of the PCs for sale should include only free software like Ubuntu.
- Ubuntu should be marketed in a way such that its amazing features and benefits would be apparent and known by all.
- The system shall become more and more user friendly as time passes.
(Source: Launchpad)
Huh no 2.7?
WordPress 2.6.5 is immediately available and fixes one security problem and three bugs. WordPress team recommends everyone upgrade to this release.
The security issue is an XSS exploit discovered by Jeremias Reith that fortunately only affects IP-based virtual servers running on Apache 2.x. If you are interested only in the security fix, copy wp-includes/feed.php and wp-includes/version.php from the 2.6.5 release package.
2.6.5 contains three other small fixes in addition to the XSS fix. The first prevents accidentally saving post meta information to a revision. The second prevents XML-RPC from fetching incorrect post types. The third adds some user ID sanitization during bulk delete requests. For a list of changed files, consult the full changeset between 2.6.3 and 2.6.5.
Note that we are skipping version 2.6.4 and jumping from 2.6.3 to 2.6.5 to avoid confusion with a fake 2.6.4 release that made the rounds. There is not and never will be a version 2.6.4. (Source: WordPress)
Looks like an upgrade not to be ignored.
I prefer to place my uploads into /media/ instead of the default /wp-content/uploads/
So I changed it, but the link is always incorrect for some strange reason:
WordPress uploads files to wrong folders
WordPress uploads file to /media/ but continues to link my images to /wp-content/uploads/. To resolve this issue, specify the folder path manually like I did. Somehow the problem is gone. I wonder if it’s a bug or what.
Before the WordPress 2.6 upgrade, WordPress 2.5 was handling this just fine. Meanwhile, you can learn more about a WordPress 2.6 easter egg.