It probably took more time to put this post together than it did to download, upload and upgrade the database!

There are some minor performance enhancements, so it might be worth it for you to also upgrade your sites if you are using WordPress.

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Just found out that Warren Buffett, the world’s second richest person, has decided to give an unprecendented nearly 85 per cent of his wealth (or about $31 billion) to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Earlier this year, I had the opportunity to sit in an audience where Bill Gates (note: by the way, what does it tell you about the company and how it treats its people, if you have to search through a couple of pages of biographical links before you locate their founder and chairman’s bio’s page?) talked candidly about his philanthropic work through this Foundation.

It was refreshing to hear a business executive, talk, at a business conference, about his vision of changing the world we live in, not with his products or services, but with his charitable foundation. He was passionately expounding on how their goals were to eradicate impoverishing diseases around the world and to transform communities and society through innovative eduation around the country, and he was doing so with the same boyish enthusiasm as he was only moments before that painting his vision of the brave new technological world that his corporation was helping to bring about. Read the rest of this entry »

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This is pretty cool. A few years ago I decided to catalog my books. So I searched high and low for a good personal library program and could not really find one. Finally I downloaded an older program written in an obsolete version of a database fourth generation language. It worked well as a catalog (sorta) but it was not very friendly and was rather difficult to maintain.

Then, today, browsing Phil Baker’s blog, I found the LibraryThing. It is a wonderful web thingy. You can use it to catalog your books, what you’re reading, and you can even link to your reviews. What is more, you can also share with others and see who are reading or have the same books as you. It’s also quite addictive! Which means, good for bloggers, espeically those who are avid readers. And, of course, booklovers!