WordPress 2.7 has arrived

WordPressWordPress version 2.7 is now available, with a brand new backend with many enhancements including editing and replying to comments, QuickPress – a way to post direct from the dashboard, the return of Press This – a bookmarklet that will let you post about any website without having to go to your blog, and much more.

A video about the new version can be seen here, and even more about the new release can be read on the WordPress Dev Blog.

A new web browser – from Google

Google have released a web browser, Google Chrome it uses the Webkit rendering engine (same as Safari) so there shouldn’t be much more work for web developers compatibility wise, which is good.
Although personally I’m not sure about this browser, it doesn’t have anything really ‘special’ and is missing some things like page zooming, it might be good to integrate it with Google’s other services as well.

It is in beta at the moment so lets hope it can get better, more info at the Googleblog: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/fresh-take-on-browser.html

New things

I have made some changes!

On the right sidebars there is a new ‘Featured Things!’ section and a section for my social networking pages.

The ‘Something new coming soon’ from the title is gone for now, had to put it on the backburner while I am doing some other stuff.

The Orange Box is almost here! 5 minutes to go (at tiime of writing)! Cant wait :mrgreen:


Now playing on Winamp: Foo Fighters – Erase-Replace
via FoxyTunes

Whirlpool’s 2006 Australian Broadband Survey

Whirlpool’s annual Australian Broadband Survey is a comprehensive survey run by users, for users. Through this survey we’re giving the consumer a strong voice to say how they feel about the general state of broadband in Australia, and specific experiences with their provider. In previous years, well over ten thousand responses were gathered.

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