WordPress 2.0 Release Candidate

Exciting (well, for the likes of me it is…) announcent on the WordPress development blog:

The next release of WordPress is drawing near. Please help us shake out any last remaining bugs by downloading and testing the 2.0 Release Candidate. If all goes well, the Release Candidate will become 2.0 final. We’re almost there. Download, test, and head over to the Beta Forum to let us know if the Release Candidate is ready for prime time.

I installed it as a new blog just to have a look around, and it is pretty good. The main change really is a nice wysiwyg editor for posting:

Creating new posts in WordPress 2.0

I’ll certainly be upgrading as soon as the final version is released!

MyHeritage.com

My Heritage is currently in beta – it’s going to be some sort of genealogy website or something – but it does have this face recognition thing on it, where you upload a photo of your face, and it tells you which celebrity you look like. Great!

Sadly, the only photos of me I had to hand weren’t very clear, so it couldn’t give them a proper going-over. The only one I could find was a rather grubby effort from a mobile phone. Anyway, the results were shocking.

1. Sania Mirza (65% similarity to me) – a woman at #1! Bloody hell. And I have never heard of her. Turns out she is an Indian tennis player.
2. Peter Sellers (62%)
3. Kevin Mitnick (52%) – who? Some sort of internet security geek apparently.
4. John Cusack (47%)
5. Tom Hanks (45%)

More fun on this subject over on Palimpsest.

Not moving

Moving URLs is a stupid idea. What was I thinking of? It’d be crazy to just abandon all the existing links out there and would take ages to sort everything out.

Instead, I’m just going to change the name of the blog. The difference between the URL and the title has always annoyed me a bit. The tagline will be a quote I like at the time, so it will change every so often.

Moving…

I am going to ignore my own advice and move this blog’s URL next week.

The new address will be http://theclosedcircle.com.

Obviously I will keep the two running side by side for a day or two to ensure everything has switched smoothly enough.

davebriggs.net will just end up being a holding page, which I can use to develop stuff out of harm’s way, like the Goal Mouths forum, which itself will be going live at http://goalmouths.com on Monday, all being well…

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