{"id":244,"date":"2007-10-01T16:11:19","date_gmt":"2007-10-01T16:11:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/updates.xephalon.net\/?p=244"},"modified":"2007-10-01T16:11:19","modified_gmt":"2007-10-01T16:11:19","slug":"upgrades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/2007\/10\/01\/upgrades\/","title":{"rendered":"Upgrades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/medEssentials-Second-High-Yield-USMLE-Review\/dp\/1427797161\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1\/104-6925157-7776733?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1191237010&amp;sr=8-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-744\" title=\"2007.10.01\" src=\"https:\/\/updates.xephalon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/2007.10.01.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a>Some of you might have noticed a glitch on my website last week. It turns out that my hosting company upgraded their PHP software to a new version that apparently has an issue with the $PHP_SELF variable on my script. This, by the way, took me many hours to figure out, and really goes to show that upgrades are not always for the better. I remember my dad once asking why I was installing new versions of programs onto his computer. &#8220;Is it supposed to make things run faster?&#8221; I thought for a second and told him, \u201cNo, they make things run slower.\u201d In fact, software upgrades rarely offer any useful new features. Instead, they look shinier and get packaged with bloatware \u2013 programs like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nero.com\">Nero<\/a> comes immediately to mind. And for free programs like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.icq.com\">ICQ<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pandora.com\">Pandora<\/a>, the &#8220;upgrade&#8221; actually means the addition of ads from sponsors. I was pleasantly surprised by Microsoft&#8217;s overhaul of their <a href=\"http:\/\/office.microsoft.com\/\">Office<\/a> software, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/windows\/products\/windowsvista\/default.mspx\">Vista<\/a> was a total disappointment. Unfortunately, our assimilation into the collective is inevitable. Resistance is futile. Anyway, speaking of upgrades, a second edition of my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/medEssentials-Second-High-Yield-USMLE-Review\/dp\/1427797161\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1\/104-6925157-7776733?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1191234963&amp;sr=8-1\">Kaplan book<\/a> has been released. The first edition was only available as part of a wallet-breaking online course, so going retail should hopefully expand our readership.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of you might have noticed a glitch on my website last week. It turns out that my hosting company upgraded their PHP software to a new version that apparently has an issue with the $PHP_SELF variable on my script. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/2007\/10\/01\/upgrades\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}