Mike Little’s Journalized

Hurray, WordPress 0.72 is now out! As Dougal notes there are lots of new things:

* All most all of the configuration options are managed through your browser. Edit your config file once and never touch it again!
* A new default style
* Improved Post/Edit interface makes it easy to edit/delete recent comments
* Improved HTML auto-formatting
* Password protected posts
* New get_links_list() function builds your entire blogroll for you
* Improved Links Manager
* Support for blogging clients that use the metaWeblog and MovableType APIs
* ‘Quicktags’ gives more intuitive HTML formatting option when editing posts
* Image upload feature compatible with more PHP server setups
* RSS feeds for comments
* RSS feeds now support “Conditional GET” to help conserve bandwidth
* Geoposition support
* Security fixes
* …and tons of minor little bug fixes…

You can get it from SourceForge

David McWilliams as written an interesting article about the land problem in Ireland and how it devalues the currency in our pockets: Paying a mortgage, not rent, is dead money in today’s world.

“Irish banking operates a land standard. The soaring price of land and houses are intricately linked to the profitability of our banking system and as such, both are part of the problem.”

Hmmm… I like this man’s thinking. The article make an awful lot of sense.

Thanks to Donncha O Caoimh for the link.

Do you remember that I was ranked 14th in a google search for ‘mike’? Well, now I have improved to 12th place out of approximately 31 million. Which is great, but that’s only moving up two places in more than three weeks. I am about to make a change to this blog, which I hope will increase that ranking much more rapidly. We shall see…

Update: I’m number one now!

Unfortunately my server is being very, very slow at the moment
There must be something wrong with it as it keeps gettting restarted (uptime at time of writing is 18 minutes!). I can’t seem to get anything out of my hosting support people at the moment.