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Latest Wordpress Release, 2.0.5

Mark on Wordpress posted an overview about the changes in the latest release of Wordpress.

WP 2.0.5 upgrade changed files list, changes diff.

From Scripting News in ‘What comes after Who Knew What When’.

You can try to hold the world in place so your life continues to make sense, but the world is too big and you’re too small, change comes, eventually, no matter how much you think it shouldn’t.

A good reminder. Change on.

Last Wednesday in a wordy post about free things you need to do for your site, I ranted a bit about slow loading issues with Feedburner links in the Firefox browser.

Yesterday, I downloaded and installed the new Firefox 2.0, Release candidate 2, and bam!

Not only is it much faster, but they have a new feed viewer option where you can elect to preview nicely formatted feeds and/or select an application like Bloglines, My Yahoo!, or Google Reader (select Tools-Options-Feeds). When set to preview the browser will display nicely formatted Atom, RSS 2.0 , RDF/RSS 1.0, and RSS 0.92 feeds. Goodbye feed reader extensions.

There is an RSS icon in the http address bar, just click to preview nicely formatted feed within the browser and then select an app if you wish to subscribe. Too cool. I have been using Firefox since v0.7, was thrilled from the start, and I am now in browsing heaven.

So, to Don L. at Feedburner, I no longer have a slow loading Feedburner link in Firefox issue. Cheers!

Kathy Sierra is passionate about creating passionate users, yes. And she is also passionate about creative work spaces and Airstreams. I want one, I want one.

I don’t how I missed this earlier post I am not a “woman blogger”, but glad I stumbled over it in the archives today! Thankfully, Kathy is passionate about many things.

Reminds me of some things.

OK, so Kent Newsome points to an article by Seth Godin on ‘8 Free Things’ a site owner should do.

I really didn’t care for any of the things. So no traffic for me, I guess. You do know how ‘too much traffic can bring down the neighborhood’, right? I do like free things, and I really did enjoy Kent’s take on those things.

I remember back when Mosaic was all the rage, and life with gopher, ftp, the bb’s, and the mostly text web seemed so wonderous and so simple (K.I.S.S).

Ok, so I’m old. My first connectoid monitor only displayed green text. I had a job that included text formatting of User and Help documents using Unix -ms Macros from the command line. Anyone remember troff? I am very patient. I am very text oriented.

And the reminders:
1. I am the poor but proud owner of a 6 year old laptop running Win98 (over DSL) who is currently on reduced work hours. I do not not have the cash lying around for any new HW/SW upgrades.

2. Sites like Technorati, Digg, Squidoo, Feedburner (what are all those page flakes), and numerous others can be painfully slow loading at times, so visiting via Firefox is a no-no for me. At least Mr. Godin’s site has an RDF alternative to his FeedBurner feed.

3. Most crap-free-sites (CFS), render fast and just fine on a 233Mhz, Win98 (better than XP) over DSL machine thank you very much.

4. I think Google should incorporate a “CFS” logo png next to links on search page results. That way one could tell BEFORE clicking the link you might be hurling head first down the rabbit hole if you knowingly select a link without the CFS logo.

5. When the internet is blanketed with Web 2.0 resource gouging applications will there still be Web 1.0 stuff for the po’ folk? Hmmm.

6. I love the fast-loading, clean, content, content, content sites like Kent’s. Too many sites today have too many images, flashies, buttons, anyalitics, scripts, widgets, blah, marketing, blah, marketing, blah with only a Feedburner link to select as an alternative.

7. Easy solution - I don’t visit those sites.

8. This was a recent reminder of how painfully behind the curve I am with my old puter’. I have had a Yahoo email account for-like-ever dudes, and I got a beta invite, so cool. Then, I find there is no support for less than Win2K, so tough nooggies getting the new yahoo stuff anytime soon. I even tried it on my linux partition, but the Mozilla browser was an issue there. The old yahoo mail still works fine, but for how long? I wonder. Hmmm.

Anyway, I have a new nick for the Newsome.org site. The nickname is ‘AweSome NewSome’. Well, except for that darn FeedBurner link.