Sometimes my Googling skills are not what they ought to be.  I searched high and low for a code formatter for this blog, but for some reason I couldn’t come up with the search terms.  Seriously, in the real world, only a demented nerd would drool over the code presentation on other people’s blogs…but there I was, and my code looked like utter malarkey by comparison. (more…)

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Yea, this is 2.7….Love it!

• The new Dashboard is a dream.
• Totally customizable.
• The Write Post page now actually makes sense.
• And TinyMCE appears to be faster and less finicky.
• My theme, Contender, didn’t break.
• WhyPad is running 9 plugins and none of them broke.

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A brief note to any of you WordPress bloggers out there who have not upgraded to 2.3 (read about the goodies and get download link here). You should run, not walk, to the nearest download center and upgrade your blogs. I haven’t spent a lot of time kicking the tires on all of the features, but I can tell you that Automattic has definitely improved the speed in this release.

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