The 13th version of WordPress has hit the servers for everyday use.
Check out their blog entry announcing the release and exciting news about the future of WordPress. Instead of rushing to develop a 3.x release, they will be working on the whole “WordPress experience” as WordPress is much more than the open source blogging application that it started out as years ago.
Let’s see… I am writing this 18 full days into 2009 and wondering when I will be ready for 2008!
The water heater project is done and so far so good as to being leak free. The old one is still sitting out on the deck (anybody want a slightly rusted out very leaky hot water heater? LOL).
(Just found a WordPress bug… I can’t center both the picture and caption it seems)
As to my computer hobby; the more I use Vista, the more I want to get rid of it and put Linux on the main computers!!! I installed Sun’s VirtualBox virtual machine the other night and am running SimplyMEPIS and Mint in a virtual machine on Vista. Of course I have a desktop and a laptop running Ubuntu and Mint, but the virtual machine lets me kick the tires of a new distro without having to burn a CD or DVD for a Live CD! You can download an iso (image file) and VirtualBox can boot that just like it is right on your hard drive.
I got a friend started with Mint operating as a guest in VirtualBox on his computer and am anxious for him to say he wants it actually installed directly on his hard drive. This way he gets to kick the tires without having to repartition his hard drive and undoing it all if he doesn’t like it.
I discovered it is a good way to play under the hood with a distro and if I break something, I can revert to a previous snapshot.
A second post will address issues I’ve been reading lately by some mighty clueless people who think they don’t like Linux because their information is waaaaaay out of date!
WordPress will turn 5 years old on Tuesday, May 27!!
Happy birthday, and thanks for bringing blogging to the masses like you have. I like being able to blog right here on my own site!
Your birthday is responsible for the shortest post I’ve made, any viewers I have appreciate that!
Hopefully my host has the database access issues solved. I took this opportunity to upgrade WordPress, and will once again be fiddling with it.
So, here goes, I did manage to upgrade it without borking anything up, so that is a very good start! 
Oh, I found some Emoticons, didn’t I?? I promise to not drive you up the wall (too far) with them.
I have found one possible hiccup, I don’t know how my saved tags will work, we’ll see……
Update: It looks like the tags work OK, they just don’t show up as I enter posts. I see that an editing glitch has been solved, too. That is where if you go back to edit, you sometimes lost the extra spaces between paragraphs.
As I look for more plugins for WordPress, it has occurred to me how some sites are almost painful to visit as more and more things show up on them supposedly making for a “better visiting experience”. It seems that many simply have features fighting to be noticed. Of course this takes away from the “experience”!
Balance is hard to achieve, I know. I am constantly adding, and then removing features from what I have here on the site. I have broken my forums once, and my photo gallery three times (one day I broke it twice!) fiddling with things. I’ve also added toys enough to have my site flash more than a cheap Christmas tree only to come to my senses and clean things up, hopefully before too many people noticed and ran for their lives.
Since WordPress 2.3 supports tagging, I may do away with the category scheme and stick to tags only. I think tagging is easier to implement, and a lot more flexible in the end run.
I think the adage of always “leaving them wanting a bit more” holds in online experiences, too. Hopefully visitors here will find plenty of interest without being overloaded.
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