The Cosmopolitan Blog

I am a strong supporter of Wordpress, especially the .org one (where you install your blog onto your own website, like this one, this blog is on the www.astralmarketing.com website). There is also wordpress.com, where you have a blog hosted on wordpress’ website, so your blog address is usually http://www.YOURBLOGNAME.wordpress.com.

But whichever option we choose, it seems that hackers have caught up with us, and are using 3rd party themes to insert potentially malicious code into our blogs, so used for advertising purposes, but some can be used for more harmful stuff as well. Read this post for more detailed info. If you’re gonna go through the trouble of installing your own blog on your website and changing it’s theme, chances are, you know the code pretty well to have noticed any malicious info. This is maybe less true for those who have a hosted blog. Either way, for now, the best thing to do is be viligant, and always download a 3rd party theme from it’s original creator. I will keep on top of this issue to see how it progressed… and i’m off to go check my code!

Facebook… I can’t believe this is the first time i post about it, since i’ve been an active member for about 6 months now. Anyway, it seems at least 1/2 the planet knows about it, so i won’t even introduce it. But if we want to measure the importance facebook has taken in our lives, we just need to see how worked up over 160 thousand people got over one little word, the word “is” in facebook’s status updates. As Mashable explains in their news announcement, until now, if you wanted to tell your friends that you want ice-cream, when you went to type your status update, the sentence was already started for you “CosmoChick is” and you had to complete the sentence. So you had no choice but to write “CosmoChick is wanting ice-cream”… But now the “is” is coming down!! Now, you can finally be grammatically correct and say “CosmoChick wants ice-cream”!! Whoo-hoo for facebook and proper grammar!

Well, we were told that as soon as it turned November 21st, the change would take effect. Well, it’s midnight and 1 minute, and still, no change. Maybe i have to wait for Pacific time? I guess facebookers must dance to California time… well, i’m afraid i won’t hold my breath, it’s off to bed I go, off to go dream about this whole new realm of status update possibilities that is now available to me!!