WARNING: the Meta category is for stuff about this blog and blogging, it could be as boring as Maintenance for many of you 
Looks like WordPress 2.0.1 was released yesterday. I’ve got my personal work blog set up from the WordPress Subversion repository so I upgraded in like 2 seconds just now. Probably should do that here too. Subversion is DEFINITELY the way to go with that business. (I’ve been using Subversion for my code at work too and it totally rocks.)
My friend Erin got me started with this business when I offered to help her set up blog software so she could start Comma Dot Comma . We’ve been trying out the trackback feature lately; it seems like you have to be careful not to trackback twice? And Erin, if you’re reading this, would you like me to upgrade your site to the latest WordPress code?
Anyway, WordPress has been a delight to work with, I even got a lightning-fast response from one of the core developers when I reported a security issue (which he said was a known issue and should be fixed now). I enjoy the easy installation/upgrades, the clean design, and the pretty good user interface. The theme support seems cool too though I haven’t taken the time to go beyond the default yet.
Another friend, David, has been complaining about the comment spam he gets on his blog which is running Moveable Type. He requires user registration for comments now, and it was too broken for me to be able to post a comment (thus this attempt at a trackback). David: if you want to switch to WordPress which has antispam features built in (which may or may not be adequate to solve your headaches), let me know and I can help you install it on your host… and I’m sure you can find lots of comparitive reviews of different blog packages out there.
In other news, I’ve been playing a bit with Google Reader today as a way of aggregating and reading my favorite blogs. I don’t know if I like seeing everyone’s posts outside their own unique designs though.
Lastly, my friend Mike has been continuing to write good stuff in This Land, posting a gripping cliffhanger article the other day entitled “Jesus’ Dorky Wife”. Erin and David, I’d like to see you submit to This Land someday, it seems up your respective alleys. Too bad the RSS feed doesn’t seem to work with Google Reader yet…
Nate – I’ve been using ‘Sage’ – a Firefox RSS plugin for aggregating blogs – it gives a decent UI and summary feed, and I usually click through to the actual site to read any post that looks interesting. Works well so far; I like it better than bloglines (haven’t tried Google Reader) but of course it limits you to the machine where all your bookmarks are. You might find it worth a test-drive.
Cool Aaron, I just installed it and will try it out tomorrow. Thanks for being my alert reader!
Hi nate, I upgraded my blog last weekend, all by my lonesome! Woohoo! Now I can upload and resize pictures with impunity. Someday I will actually fix my theme so that all the tabs go somewhere and the links make sense.
I use Google Reader but I don’t like it. It seems to work like Google search does, relying on the cache instead of live data. Often the stuff in the reader is about a day out of date. I will try Sage instead.
I may submit to This Land sometime. Most of my Christian-y musings end up on saltsite.com, a monthly. Don’t know if I got much more in me than that.
hrm.. i cannot see what you all are doing in april.