Just upgraded things here to the spiffy new WordPress 2.0. Everything looks okay so far but if anyone notices any bugs please let me know.

I’m not sure when this happened but Apple seems to have added a huge stash of DHR stuff to the iTunes store. Finally I can satisfy my urges for Atari Teenage Riot, EC8OR and Lolita Storm with a simple click.

Just giving the Performancing Extension for Firefox a quick run through.

Have to see how it goes, but it looks pretty promising so far.

Update: Well, the default HTML it generates is cleaner than what Flock was doing initially. But it’s just replacing carriage returns with <br /> tags, not actually wrapping things in <p> tags like I’d prefer.

Update: It also parses character encoded (&lt; etc.) characters as HTML when editing an existing post. Never a good thing.

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One more quick bit: Happy Birthday Andrea. And happy holidays to everyone.

Okay, so obviously I’m having some issues with the whole “post by email” scene. So I’m just going to call it quits and plan on updating when Andrea and I get home (internet access is just dialup here). I’ll keep posting some bits on my Flickr account so keep an eye out over there I guess.

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Today Andrea and I head off to Missouri to visit her family again for Christmas and Andrea’s birthday. Trying to take as little techy stuff as possible (cell phone, iPod and the MyFi XM Radio that Andrea gave me for Xmas is about it), but I have set up Wordpress to take posts by email so I may still get a post up here now and then.

Happy holidays, everybody.

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