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It looks like WordPress 2.0 has been released (and the WordPress site has been spiffed up). I’m setting up a blog for someone, so this seems like a good chance to try out the installation. If all goes well, I’ll upgrade this site as well. If the sites starts to cough up digital hairballs, you know something went wrong (but my first step in upgrading will be back up everything!)

UPDATE - Alec also noticed the upgrade to WordPress, and points to a list of 10 things you should know about WordPress 2.0.

Oh boy - I have too many projects (like getting some major work done for the site that Rick has been patiently waiting for, and getting some audio edited for the posse)that need to be wrapped up in my life, so I am taking a nearly total blogging hiatus until at least one or two of them gets wrapped up. I’ll still be reading a handful of blogs (no more than 5) over this week, but I will be totally abstaining from any writing in this blog.

And now the tough part - picking the 5 blogs that I will read for the week! Suggestions?

Aren’t comment spammers just the best?

I’ve been writing on this and other previous blogs for about 3 and a half years (which I think is about 25 internet years), and during that time I have forgotten a lot of the great posts I wrote.

But tonight, as I was tossing out the spam, I checked a couple of the links to the posts that had been spammed, like this one - David Wiley on technology in schools - an oldie but still a goodie. If not for the spammers trying to clog my blog with their crap postings, I would never have thought to go and re-read it.

So thank you once again, spammers. I hope that my sincere appreciation helps to make you feel like a good person with a useful role in society despite the fact that you are being paid by the profits of pill-pushers, online casinos, and pornographers. If not for your ineffective attempts to leave comments (which need my approval before they actually get placed on the blog), I would not have had that chance to take a look at some of the content, humble as it may be, that I actually took the time to write and share with the world! You rock, dude!