In recognition of the fact that the OC Transpo strike is over now that the ATU has ratified the agreement to go to binding arbitration I’ve removed the little anti-ATU 279 logo that’s been gracing the header picture of my blog the last few weeks.
Unless you’ve been living under a rock the last few weeks, you know that Local 279 of the Amalgamated Transit Union is on strike. Today, they union is being forced to take the last offer from the City to the members for a vote. The union executive is strongly encouraging its members to vote “no”, meaning the strike will continue, even though the majority of citizens in Ottawa are prepared to freeze them out.
Most of the bloggers I know are encouraging the union members to vote “yes” for what is generally felt by everyone except the union executive to be a fair offer. Here’s a quick round up of what they’re writing:
And, of course I’ve written an entry encouraging people to not demonstrate outside where the union members are voting.
All there is to do at this point is wait and hope that the union members are clearer thinkers than their union boss.
*** If you’re looking for the results, I wrote about them here.
2008 was a year of highs and lows (though I guess that can be said about most years) – fortunately there weren’t many lows.
It included my Granddad’s 100th birthday party, curling, a ridiculous amount of snow, a trip to San Antonio, a trip to Greece, dealing with water damage in my apartment caused by a leaky air conditioner, dragonboating, playing Ultimate, going climbing in the Gatineau Hills for the first time after years of climbing in rock gyms, a trip to Quebec City, meeting some of the Harlem Globetrotters (Curly and Buckets) while playing bells at the A-Channel and some geocaching (though not as much as I’d have liked).
WordPress 2.7 has been released with a complete overhaul of the admin interface and the addition of new features. From the reader’s perspective, however, things probably won’t look a whole lot different. One new feature I’ve wished for a few times in the past is to make a post “sticky” so that it’s always on the main page.
If you’re using Subversion to manage your updates, all you should need to do is run the following command:
And then hit the upgrade URL. Painless as usual!
Congratulations to the WordPress 2.7 team!
According to the WordPress.com blog, WordPress 2.7 is being released this evening at 8pm Eastern. The list of new features is pretty impressive and there are a number that I’ve been wanting for a while.
Cool!
WordPress 2.6.5 has been released. It fixes an XSS security problem concerning blogs running on Apache 2.x using IP-based virtual servers and there are three small non-critical bug fixes. You can download the fix or use Subversion to pull them down thus:
1: svn sw http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/tags/2.6.5/
As usual, it took me longer to log onto my server than actually do the upgrade itself.
If you pay attention to things like version numbers, you’ll note that the numbers skipped from 2.6.3 to 2.6.5. That’s because there is a rogue version floating around calling itself 2.6.4. If you’re tempted to install it, DON’T!!! It’s not a real release. There will never be a WordPress 2.6.4.
A minor security fix for WordPress was released yesterday. Basically, there is a low-risk vulnerability in the Snoopy library that is used to display the RSS feeds in the Dashboard. You can download the fix, grab the files manually (wp-includes/class-snoopy.php and wp-includes/version.php) or use Subversion to pull them down thus:
1: svn sw http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/tags/2.6.3/
It took me longer to log onto my server than actually do the upgrade itself.
AKA Keeper of Maps, I'm a geocacher who lives in Ottawa, Canada.
