Upgrade fever, kind of

In the wake of the upgrade to WordPress 2.5, we also upgrade our theme and add a couple of features. As the kids used to say, w00t.

WordPress 2.5 goes gold

So it didn’t take twenty-two years after all. Heh.

WordPress 2.5, still pending

Looking forward to the new hotness.

Tough love in Techville

Tech fight! Well, not so much - but the competition between Automattic and Six Apart is getting a little chippy.

Dana Loesch leaves Post-Dispatch

If any paper could alienate the most interesting columnist/blogger it has, it would be the P-D.

Change is Nature’s delight…

So said Marcus Aurelius, last of the “five good emperors” of Rome. He would likely have approved of the latest change to the layout of Waveflux. And if not…well, he’s long dead, so who cares?

WordPress 2.5, pending

In which I accept complete responsibility and apologize unreservedly for whatever you think you don’t like about the user interface of the next version of WordPress.

Minor blogkeeping notes

Not that you asked, but:

Down to something over thirteen hundred dead links (from something over eighteen hundred). So, progress.
Bettie is taking a vacation from her usual position in the top left corner of the blog while I work up a remedy for the logo obscuring her on monitors with low resolutions.
Currently ad-less and will likely [...]

Weeding in the blog garden

Most of my blog activity over the last couple of days has taken place behind the scenes. I spent some time this weekend adding plugin-driven functionalities like “similar posts” and “recent posts,” which I trust will make the visitor’s time here more enjoyable. (Both of these plugins are creations of a gentleman who, in addition [...]

Had I known this, I wouldn’t have bothered

From the Salon article “Blogging grows up” way back in 2004, regarding the shift of Movable Type away from being “publishing for the people” and toward becoming an enterprise-level platform:
If you ask Six Apart about this, they don’t really deny it. Who is Movable Type for? Is it for publishing for the people? Not if [...]