WordPress 2.3.3 and plugins update

I just did a major update of fg.com over the easter long weekend.

  1. Finally moved from my www.mediatemple.net account to my own www.servint.net vps server
  2. Installed WordPress 2.3.3 with fantastico!
  3. Installed the latest following plugins:
    1. Adsense Delux – 0.8
    2. AVC FLV-Player – 2.5.5
    3. Akismet – 2.1.4
    4. All-In-One-SEO-Pack – 1.4.6.3
    5. Google Analyticator – 2.1
    6. Google Sitemaps – 3.0.3
    7. reCAPTCHA – 2.6
    8. ShiftThis | Newsletter  – 2.2.6
    9. Twitter Widget – 1.5
    10. wp-cache – 2.1.2
  4. Installed TwitterBerry on my blackberry
  5. Botched up my permalinks
  6. Decided to keep them the way they are now (not sure how this will effect my google ranking and the ol’ google cache)
  7. Installed the excellent Silhouette by wordpress themer legend Brian Gardner (Designed the awesome Revolution theme set)

A few things to do:

  1. Make a few adjustments to Silhouette in the columns for my own specific widgets
  2. Find a suitable ajax search widget / plugin that works with silhouette

It’s been well worth the reset! I have been meaning to move fg.com for ages now since I got my own vps server.

What happens when you post a box with 161 stamps

I’m not sure what happened here, maybe the post office wanted to unload some of those old Christmas stamps left over from the festive season. Maybe office staff had nothing better to do?

But this is the result of a roll of 161 stamps and a miss-spent afternoon in the (relatively) remote NSW town of Coonamundra.

161 Postage stamps

Windows Live Writer

I’m giving windows live writer a go.

Live writer is a XML-RPC client that allows you to post blog entries from your windows desktop.

It means that any metaweblog api compliant blogging platform can be posted to using Live Writer.

It’s awesome, just for quickly tapping out entries it’s great.

You can also easily add images:

Winter

Inserting a map of where I live:

Map image