Over the last couple of weeks (and for the next six or so) we’ve had lots of low-flying aircraft over the house, and it’s down to this – the Stanford Training Area (known locally as STANTA) has converted a portion of its land into an Afghan village for training soldiers and there’s a lopping great training exercise on at the moment.
In general I don’t mind too much about the aircraft etc. – although Hound has a real issue when they do the artillery fire, as it sounds like thunder, which sends her into a total tailspin – although on occasion I do get to the point (normally around 9,9.30 in the evening) when I think they might just be taking the piss a bit.
Still, it’s interesting to see what it’s being used for, and the way things have changed now, from the “Eastern European village” scenario for training to the “Afghan village/set-up”.
And it rather makes you wonder just how long the Armed Forces and/or Government think the War on Drugs Oil Terror might actually go on for, doesn’t it?
The new version (release 2.8) of WordPress came out today – and it’s already been installed here at D4D™.
I have to say, since I updated D4D with the redesign and brought the WordPress install up to date as well, one of the things that has impressed me the most (despite some of its potential security issues) is the ability to update WordPress or the installed plugins directly from the site. It makes life a hell of a lot easier.
In this case, even updating the core files for WordPress was a matter of a couple of clicks, letting the file download, then a final click when everything was completed.
All told, it’s a pretty impressive way of doing things.
As for the use of 2.8? Well, there’s certainly been some changes, but I still have to explore most of them, so I’ll write more about it sometime in the next few days.
