Away From Reality

It might seem odd that I would be excited by a new release of Wordpress given that this site runs on Typo 4.1.1. Trust me, you wouldn't be wrong... however, NetStumbler.com is running on Wordpress and this new upgrade includes some new features that look more than interesting.

Last night I actually upgraded this site from Typo 2.5.6 to Typo 4.1.1. All that took was a simple "rake db:migrate", oh the beauty of Rails! My Wordpress upgrade won't be nearly as tidy.

The only reason that I am considering an upgrade is that the Wordpress team has included import tools to migrate tags from various existing tag plugins into the new native tag engine. NetStumbler.com is currently using Ultimate Tag Warrior, but hopefully not for much longer.

I also can't wait to see the new Canonical URLs in action. It looks like a graceful solution to an ugly problem, and with 3500+ posts on NetStumbler.com tracing their origins back from two complete CMS migrations I know that there are at least 100 posts that this would effect.

So, I've tried twitter and I love it. What it did for me is simply get me re-energized for some old school blogging. Now that I've got some time to sort my thoughts, I am going to be more active in sharing them here.