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After being one of the most famous WordPress-run blogs for what seems like forever, Binary Bonsai is making the switch to Habari. I downloaded the 0.5 release to test it out, and I was surprised with how far it’s come. I thought about switching over, but I don’t really maintain/care about this blog anymore, so I’m thinking it’s not worth the trouble.

As for Michael’s new theme, I just wish he’d bring back Freya, which is …

Soo, WordPress 2.5 has been released. Upgrade went fine, but I definitely cannot say I like the new admin. The navigation, especially, seems unfinished and not thought through. Oh, and the submit buttons are ugly as hell.

My new excuse of not blogging is so I don’t hurt my eyes straining to decipher the extremely non-contrasting colors in the new admin design. Ugh. I even have to turn down my screen’s brightness so I’m not blinded.

At …

I haven’t written anything since December 15 of last year, so I guess I’ll just post a bunch of small tidbits to make up for it.

• Merry Christmas, Happy New Year. 2008 feels the same as 2007, so far.
• My main reason for lack of posting is that I’ve begun playing World of Warcraft. Gotta… level… to… 70… Only 39 more levels to go — this is worse than heroin.
• IPv6 may not [be a …

Although I’m about 13 hours late, Pacific time, I’ve turned off all spam filters, including Akismet and Bad Behavior, in an attempt to see just how much spam filtering plugins help. I’ve also disabled DoFollow, for obvious reasons.

There’s more information on the announcement post on the blog that started this day, justaddwater.dk.

Brace for impact, people.

Donncha, one of the lead developers of WordPress MU, has just released WP Super Cache, which is basically WP-Cache on steroids.

While WP-Cache caches to static HTML files, it still needs the PHP engine to be started up to serve those static HTML files. WP Super Cache solves this, by rerouting the request past the PHP engine with mod_rewrite, and serves the HTML file directly.

WP Super Cache gets around that. When it is installed, html …

If you’re using pretty permalinks (as in your permalinks look something like /2007/03/post_slug), you can clean up your WordPress folder a bit by deleting these files:

• wp-atom.php
• wp-commentsrss2.php
• wp-feed.php
• wp-rss.php
• wp-rss2.php

This is because as of, I believe, WordPress 2.2, these files are left behind only for legacy purposes — for people without pretty permalinks. The feed files themselves are located in wp-includes/ and with pretty permalinks, WordPress goes right to those files.

In fact, WordPress still …