Blog Is Now Running WordPress 2.6

No Comments Written by Leland on July 19, 2008 in Blog news.

It seems like just yesterday I upgraded to 2.5.1 (even though it was over a month ago). There’s not really much difference. A few things I noticed right after upgrading:

  • Word count on the write menu
  • “Bubble” for outdated plugins

It was a relatively painless upgrade for this blog, especially since I don’t have that many plugins that I’d have to keep up with too.


Gmail Has A Black Dot

No Comments Written by Leland on July 5, 2008 in Technology.

Stop the presses, this just in: Gmail, a popular free webmail service, has a black dot located in the top left corner of the page. What could this dot be? It seems the general consensus is that it is an iframe, with a border. More to come as this breaking news story develops.


Web 2.0 Overload

No Comments Written by Leland on July 5, 2008 in Technology.

Just take a look at this web 2.0 map of the world, which features exactly 1001 logos from various web 2.0 websites. Obviously there are a few repeats, but still - there’s a good number of sites in that map. I have to admit it’s pretty cool, and a lot of effort was obviously put into it.


3 New Templates

No Comments Written by Leland on July 3, 2008 in Blog news.

I’ve been trying to experiment with designing things a bit, and I have released 3 templates on the new templates page. All are XHTML valid. These are all very simple, but hopefully some will find them useful. If they get popular enough I may consider doing WordPress theme versions of them.


Firefox 3 Breaks World Record

No Comments Written by Leland on July 3, 2008 in Technology.

It was announced that Firefox Download Day 2008 set a world record with 29,008,009 downloads. I recently upgraded to Firefox 3 myself, so I guess I’m one of those 29 million or so downloads. Congrats Firefox!