Well, I took the plunge and upgraded to WordPress 2.5.

I’m actually quite surprised - I didn’t look at any of the release candidates, so the new style (for the admin interface) is totally new to me. I have to say I’m quite taken with it (although I did switch back to the “classic” color scheme).

And I have to say I LOVE the new media browser controls - much better for handling pictures, music, and videos embedded in a blog (as I so often do).

Although my configuration seems to be limited somehow - I get errors when uploading image files during the “Crunching” process. I’m not sure what it is; it may be a PHP memory limit on my server. If anyone’s run into this and diagnosed it successfully before, please drop a note in the comments - I’d appreciate it.

In the meantime, I’ve got work to do - upgrading the themes here and over at the Bun’s blog to allow the use of the now-built-in Gravatars. Fun!

It occurred to me recently that Facebook, MySpace, Friendster, and all those sorts of sites are just like GeoCities and Tripod were back in the early days of the web - in other words, filled with awful, horrible, ugly web pages that nobody wants to look at.

Ah, progress.

So, I got around to signing up my site for Google’s Webmaster Tools, and as I was perusing the results, I came across a very interesting chart. This chart showed search terms (”keywords,” in the lingo of the search business) and how my site ranked for those terms. Being that this is just my personal blog & playground website, I didn’t think I would rank very high for anything other than “core dump blog,” “starkeith,” or maybe “Keith’s website.” So you can imagine my surprise when I found that one of my pages was ranked #1 for the search phrase “manual vs automatic.”

#1 on Google. Well I’ll be bounced!

I guess people really liked that article! Though, admittedly, I should have guessed as much - that article has more comments than any other article here. Still, it was quite interesting!

If you have a website of your own, I highly recommend using Google’s tools - both the Webmaster Tools and Google’s Analytics to track your website traffic. You might discover something interesting about your own site that you didn’t know!

You knew this was going to happen. The bunnies now have their own blog.

Stop looking at me like that. I swear, I’m not crazy!