Mac mini vs Shuttle SFF

Didn’t realise just how small the Mac mini is till I saw this picture at this review by Tom’s Hardware Guide

Enabling Quicktags in WP 1.5

Not sure why they decided to do this, but Quicktags are disabled in WordPress 1.5 if Safari is detected as the web browser being used. Anyway, it’s easy to renable it. Simply open up wp-admin/admin-functions.php and edit it as described in this post on the WordPress forums.

upgraded WordPress 1.5!

The upgrade suprisingly took only a few minutes, and no problems that I can see. That is, except for the fact that my static pages i.e. About Me and Tech no longer look quite right. No matter – will start working on re-generating them later in the week.

WordPress 1.5 is here!!!

Gasp! Version 1.5 is finally out!
Download it right now!

Am going to iupgrade to it right away! Wish me luck!

Blogsome

Just surfing around as usual when I noticed a link to a new FREE blogging service, siimlar to Blogger and LiveJournal. The big difference is that is running on WordPress – yes, the very software this blog is powered by?

I’ve set up a test account and it seems to be running off a version 1.5 beta of WordPress, as the manager interface seems to contain features missing from my version 1.2.2 of WordPress..including a handy theme manager!

Time will tell whether its popularity will cause annoying slowdowns etc when publishing, like the ones I’d encoutered back when I was using Blogger (which was just 2 months ago!). But I doubt it, because unlike Blogger, WordPress doesn’t rebuild every single page when you publish anything.

So go check out Blogsome.com

So will I abandon this blog and use one at Blogsome?

Nah, I prefer the freedom and security of running off my own hosted server (especially the ability to backup the MySQL database of my blogs).