Are you plagued by horrible internet connectivity, and do you keep getting errors like this one, when you try to upgrade your Wordpress blog?

I kept getting the same error over and over again, and decided there’s a better way of overcoming this problem. Thanks to Nazham, he had some pointers on his blog to share on how you can edit the file (/wp-admin/includes/file.php) and modify this line:
$response = wp_remote_get($url, array(’timeout’ => 30));
to increase the timeout to something longer like 120.

However, this method apparently is overwritten when you upgrade your Wordpress …

I click cancel and return to the previous screen where an inconspicuous section says “All bookings made using an electronic form of payment are subject to a CONVENIENCE FEE per passenger per sector”. What on earth is this? You blew your budget while developing the booking system, and are forced to charge us for it You’re trying to be sly-er than the coyote Tiger hopes our eye sight isn’t so good, and they can hoodwink us by 50 bucks Whatever it is, how can you pass on a convenience fee to us?

A quick post on how things change online depending on where you are. We transited at Kuwait International and I quickly wanted to check on a location I had to go to. And whoaa… things changed drastically on screen. Gave me a bit of a surprise for awhile.

Even Facebook was trying to serve me their localized ads. Sorry, I don’t read Arabic, though!

Today is a sad day for Malaysia. We are currently witnessing a deterioration of our government on many fronts, and this has now extended to the freedom that we Malaysians enjoy on the Internet.
The problem – the government now selectively limits what site we are allowed to access and directs the Internet service providers (ISPs) to abide accordingly. As of the 27th of August 2008, access to a prominent and controversial blogger’s website – Raja Petra’s Malaysia-Today.net was blocked.
An initial investigation showed that the DNS servers for our national ISP …