Monthly Archives: August 2007

WordPress 2.3 BETA Now Released

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Not intended for prime time (hence the ‘beta’ designation), WP 2.3 was just released overnight.

Preliminary thoughts: Huge changes to the code since 2.22 (expected of course). I haven’t the time right now to go through the code, but obviously there’s changes ‘aplenty’.

As well, there’s not much different in the Admin section – in fact, the only thing I noticed was an addition to the permalinks section to add an optional ‘tag base’ (tags will be integrated in the next release.

Still, I’m all a-twitter – according to their site some of the new features include:

Some of the features of 2.3 include plugin and core update notification, built-in tags support, faster javascript, and SEO-friendly URL redirection.

I’m looking forward to more details soon…

New Design for ‘Utopia Mechanicus’

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Time for an site overhaul!

The new design is modeled after Fritz Lang’s 1927 classic, ‘Metropolis’, using the font for the header, b/w (and gray) coloring, and movie stills.

It seemed appropriate: since ‘Utopia Mechanicus’ is a site devoted to software and tech for the betterment of mankind (lofty goal, but it IS code bits and pieces I write to make life easier for at least one person, myself), what better design than something that reminds us of how bad technology can become?

It’s actually somewhat ironic – technology can help us, but in 1927 we hadn’t even gotten into the worst of it – synthetic chemicals, nuclear weapons, global warming – and yet THEY were concerned about the misuse of technology!

Hope you enjoy it.