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I’ve been using WordPress for my blog for the past three years. Although I have occasionally dived into it – adding a few themes or plugins – only recently, with this blog and this other blog have I really started to explore what’s possible.

Over the last 24 hours, as I updated all three of my blogs to WordPress 2.6.1, did I have a good look around both at the management interface for WordPress, and for the incredible number of plugins available for it. WordPress is clearly a viable ecosystem now, with thousands of plugins, thousands of themes, and something like 70 million users.

Which means I made the right decision, three years ago.

Best of all, upgrading – which has ever been the bane of WordPress users – has gotten easier and easier. I am going to try the Automatic Updater plugin next time I upgrade. It broke my blog the last time I used it. But I reckon it’s all a whole lot cleaner now. And if that’s the case, then WordPress will be damn near perfect.

Just finished reading Om Malik this morning. I rather like his take on the developments of the business and technology of Silicon Valley. But I liked him better pre-heart attack, when his world was smaller, when he wrote about things he cared passionately about, and when he didn’t make his posts a lame attempt to promote his own forthcoming events.

Note to those of you who blog: I am already giving you my very precious attention. That should be more than enough. If you spruik mercilessly, you’ll drive me away. And I doubt I’ll be alone.