I have seen The Who in concert three times in my colorful life, so when I saw David Cook, who’s a top four finalist this year, was going to perform the iconic rock song Baba O’Riley, I was really excited. You see, I think David Cook is amazing when he does his own arrangements and I just wish he could have performed the whole song!
Anyway, here’s the video…enjoy!

Symisun_02 by Symisun has a special tabbed main navigation with a pinch of light blue freshness. I like the simple elegance of it. It’s perfect for a portal site. The template includes a heavily commented CSS file that makes it easy for you to customize it.

Since I haven’t really noticed too many bugs in WordPress 2.5, I decided to just replace the 3 critical files which were security issues as per the WordPress announcement:

If you are interested only in the security fixes, you can download these corrected copies of wp-includes/pluggable.php, wp-admin/includes/media.php, and wp-admin/media.php. Replace your existing copies of these files with these new copies.

I still have the notification in my dasboard to upgrade to 2.5.1 and I will do that when I get more time. I feel I’ve taken the necessary steps for now to ensure my blog is secure.

I don’t know how you feel, but as much as I love WordPress, I think it gets a little tedious having to upgrade so often, because I have more than one blog to worry about. I shouldn’t complain, though, because in my opinion, the dev team at WordPress are fantastic and work hard to give us a free top notch blogging application.

If one was to read all the garbage on the various American Idol forums, blogs, etc, Carly Smithson, one of my 2 picks for this season’s winner, should be burned to the stakes by religious fanatics in middle America for her supposed sacreligious rendition of Jesus Christ Superstar. Carly did a superb job of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s composition and he even encouraged her to do the song, but she was still sent packing last night.

The voting system for American Idol is flawed, in my humble opinion, and is not based on talent, but merely on popularity, and clearly Carly was not America’s favorite. Many people dislike her tatoos, think she screams, when she’s obviously a rocker with immense talent and big pipes, who’s proven that she can sing anything.

When 2 of the 3 best performers (Carly, Syesha, David C.) from Tuesday land in the bottom 2, it just confirms that screaming teenyboppers are the majority of voters, and their votes are based on looks and personality rather than raw talent.

Carly is going to have a great future. Perhaps not in America. Hey Carly, come to Canada, girl! I, for one, would support her and buy her records!

For those of you who didn’t watch the show on Tuesday, here’s a video of Carly Smithson’s superb performance.

Facebook Dashboard Widget is a cool new plugin that you can install right into your WordPress admin dashboard so you can keep up with your friends and other Facebook contacts. I like it because you don’t have to access Facebook to find out what’s going on, and what’s also neat is you can customize the height and width of the widget. You can also set how many items you want displayed. This is a perfect plugin for busy bloggers who are also Facebook users, like me.