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I updated the version of Wordpress that I use to manage this site. The update process went fairly smoothly. There were a few bumps in the road because I had customized the look of my site a whole bunch, but it was fairly trivial to fix and only took around 10 minutes. This new version has a bunch of neat new features that I’m sure I’ll enjoy playing with. Hopefully these features will make it a little easier for me to avoid comment spam. Every 3 or 4 days I get hit with a piece of comment spam for every post I’ve done so far. Most of them get marked for moderation, but then I have to log in and delete each one. This verison of WordPress should make that a little bit easier.

Novell’s Hula Project looks pretty promising. I’m tempted to install it just to poke it for a bit. Honestly, if it had been released a week ago, I would probably already be using it as my mail server because I redid my mail server just last week. Apparently Jamie Zawinski, of Netscape and Mozilla fame, warned Nat Friedman about slapping Hula with the ‘Groupware’ label. Instead he offered the following advice, “Your ‘use case’ should be, there’s a 22 year old college student living in the dorms. How will this software get him laid?” That whole post is really pretty entertaining.

I’m actually going to try and install The Hurd in the next few days. I really don’t expect much from it, but that’s the point. It’ll be interesting to see an operating system in such an early stage of development. I mean, The Hurd has been 20 years in the making and it still doesn’t do much of anything. In fact, they very recently ripped out large chunks of it and started over. That’ll probably add another 20 years to the development time. I hope I’m alive to see version 1.0. Ha!