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Nations United have today lanched the full length music video to ‘I wish.’

The video is directed by founder of Nations United, Chaker Khazaal, and is starring Karissa and Katie Strain, Jackie and Olie Vainberg. (With an appearance from ptoone as the paper boy!).

Nations United is a campaign and film championing the art of film making and global unity. In cooperation with many friends around the World, Nations United is collecting video entries with preferred themes such as beauty, compassion, happiness, learning, love, nature, peace, and unity. Selected footages will be integrated into the upcoming film Nations United the movie.

Related links:

• View the YouTube video on Thexyz.in
• ‘I wish” page on NationsUnited.org

Thexyz Network HQ Location

Now operating over a global network linked to server data centers located in Canada, United Kingdom and United States. We now have a head office located in the downtown core of Toronto. As our network continues to grow, so does the need for a permanent address, we are happy to have chosen Toronto as our head office location. Located in a private suite in the same building as one of the cities top newspapers, ‘The Toronto Star.”  Visit the contact pages of this or Thexyz Network for the address.

Thexyz Network Head Office

Related Links:

• Thexyz Network Contact
• Thexyz Network Google Maps Page

Celebrate Canada Day this Thursday July 1st with saving of 15% on all ptoone products at Lulu.com.

Use coupon code GREATWHITENORTH305 at checkout and receive 15% off. See below for a list of ptoone book eligible for discount…

Use coupon code GREATWHITENORTH305 at checkout and receive 15% off

	Harry – An illustrated poem Harry…A compelling story of a thoughtful and conscientious doorman who reluctantly gave his job up in the blink of an eye for what turned out to be a mistake, he hoped he would live to regret.
	The Alphabetic (and somewhat poetic) “Gist” of Ology Jobs Taken through the alphabet of scientific study with a Platypus/Penguin type Man. This rhyming ABC poem offers an abundance of laughs, poetry and some insight into the different types of ‘Ology’ jobs. It does not attempt to provide an accurate portrayal into each field of study or academic discipline, nothing more than a illustrated poem combining science and art.
	The Dot Sketch Book The Dot Sketch Book was designed by ptoone as a way to write between the lines, and keep structure. The Dot Grid was developed as an alternative to traditional lines and boxes. The light grey geometric dot matrix serves as a subtle guide for your notations and sketches.
	The Story of the Laccifer Lacca (Lac Beetle). From the beetle to the tree, ‘Shellac’ embarks on a remarkable process before it is purified for commercial use. The Laccifer Lacca (Lac Beetle) is a scale insect from the cohiael family. Measuring just 5mm in length when fully grown, it resides on trees in India and southern Asia, such as the Ficus, Palas, Kusum and Ber tree’s. This amazing process requires the precise efforts of man, animals and nature to perfect.

Maximum savings with this promotion is $20. You can only use the code once per account, and you can’t use this coupon in combination with other coupon codes. This great offer ends on July 4th, 2010 at 11:59 PM so try not to procrastinate!

Earlier today WordPress 3.0 was launched and made available as a free download, you can download a free copy via the link at the bottom of this post.

The major new features:

• A new default theme called Twenty Ten
• New developer API’s
• Simultaneous updates for plugins
• The MU and WordPress merger!

This new version of WordPress includes a much improved new default theme called Twenty Ten. Theme developers have new APIs that allow them to easily implement custom backgrounds, headers, short-links, menus (no more file editing), post types, and taxonomies. Developers and network admins will appreciate the long-awaited merge of MU and WordPress, creating the new multi-site functionality which makes it possible to run one blog or ten million from the same installation. This new version has seen 1,217 bug fixes and feature enhancements in total.

There have been several new releases of WordPress over the past year, WordPress 3.0 includes a lot more new features than with other updates and the development team, that now includes 218 developers, will be taking a break from development for a while to concentrate more on integration.

We’re going to take a release cycle off to focus on all of the things around WordPress. The growth of the community has been breathtaking, including over 10.3 million downloads of version 2.9, but so much of our effort has been focused on the core software it hasn’t left much time for anything else. Over the next three months we’re going to split into ninja/pirate teams focused on different areas of the around-WordPress experience, including the showcase, Codex, forums, profiles, update and compatibility APIs, theme directory, plugin directory, mailing lists, core plugins, wordcamp.org… the possibilities are endless. The goal of the teams isn’t going to be to make things perfect all at once, just better than they are today. We think this investment of time will give us a much stronger infrastructure to grow WordPress.org for the many tens of millions of users that will join us during the 3.X release cycle.

If you haven’t already upgraded to WordPress, whaddya waiting for? You can download a full zip file here.
Downloading the zip file is suitable for manual upgrade, while if you are upgrading automatically like most of us will, you can upgrade directly from your WordPress admin area.

More useful links on topic:

• Minimum server requirements
• Official WordPress Announcement

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