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  Within The Spicy Cauldron, mix poetry and prose in equal measure. Stick everything into a blender for five minutes. Stir gently with a wooden spoon, then pour slowly into tall glasses with crushed ice. No cherries. Let the drink speak for itself.

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  • LG K990 Viewty beats iPhone but only an ‘iPhone killer’ when OS X software available
  • We’re to believe the ‘mystery’ of the 9/11 third tower collapse has been solved…
  • MacBook Pro and the wonder that is the Migration Assistant
  • US court orders Viacom to be given all YouTube usernames, IP addresses and viewing histories
  • Virgin likely to lose 800 customers by colluding with BPI over file-sharing
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Trying out new themes

I’m test-driving new themes. I may go with a new one, or I may stick with the current one. I just wanted to give folks a heads-up that there may be page strangeness sometimes when you visit!

tags: themes, WordPress

WordPress 2.5: likely to trash your blog?

Any other self-hosted WordPress users worried that all the changes in the upcoming 2.5 release might bugger up your themes, layouts and plugins? The more I read, the more I think this update is the biggest yet and consequently likely to be the most destructive when applied to long-established sites like this one.

tags: content management, layouts, plugins, themes, WordPress

If…

If the site crashes back to the default theme (yes, it still does now and then) from Thursday through to Sunday, I won’t know because I will be enjoying myself at Loch Ness and so it will just have to stay that way until my return. So there.

tags: plugins, themes, WordPress

My MacBook Pro came back from repair having suffered a 'logic board failure'. I don't know what that is, but it sounds serious and ghastly. Thanks to the wonderful Migration Assistant in OS X, it took me all of half an hour to get my applications, email, settings and documents back onto the machine via a FireWire link-up with the iMac. Windows was never easy in that regard.

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