A bug fix version of WordPress has been released. It addresses various bugs in version 2.0, 114 in total. To summarize:

• You can now specify an upload directory, and whether to use date-based storage or not.
• Caching has been fixed under certain PHP enviroments.
• Permalinks have been fixed for weird enviroments as well.
• XML-RPC uploading works.
• Compatibility with older versions of PHP.
• Several WYSIWYG fixes and cleanups.
• Imports now use much less memory.
• Now works with MySQL 5.0 in strict mode.

Go upgrade now!

Haha, this is great:

It’s official: two per cent of gamers are neither male nor female, leading us to believe that this small yet significant section of the gaming demographic is either hermaphrodite, represents a species further down the evolutionary pyramid or is perhaps of silicon-based extraterrestrial origin.

That’s according to the ESA (Entertainment Software Association) 2005 report into the state of the industry - enticingly entitled “ESA’S 2005 Essential Facts About the Computer and Video Game Industry” - which is available right here (PDF):

That’s right - page five blows the lid on the astounding truth. We look forward to more ESA revelations in the future, including the earth-shattering insight that 37 per cent of analysts cannot operate an electronic calculator, 41 per cent cannot successfully proofread a document and the remaining 24 per cent are concealing the chilling truth that the lower mammalian orders have developed a penchant for Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. Fascinating stuff.

Bootnote

Thanks to reader Matt for giving it 110 per cent in finding this statistical gem.

Source: http://www.theregister.com/2005/10/17/gaming_shocker/

Apologies, but it seems my blog is being pretty slow, REALLY slow on some pages. A redesign and recode is in the works though, so rather than trying to figure out what’s hanging and causing the slow page loads, I’m just gonna not worry about it and instead spend the time working on the new version.

Sorry for the inconvience.

I’ve just completed a new plugin that allows you to display your Battlefield 2 profile statistics. The data is fetched via a XML feed from BF2S.com. It’s intended for your sidebar, but can also be used on a WordPress page.

It’s fully configurable via an options page in the WordPress admin area and only requires that you add the plugin’s output function to your theme’s sidebar to get it working.

To see it in action, look to your right in my sidebar, just below the weather.

For more details or to download it, check out the plugin’s homepage.

I finally broke down and got a MySpace account. I feel so dirty now…

For the record, I won’t actually be blogging on it. I just signed up to find some long lost friends from many years back. ;)

Yeah, I know it’s old and overdone, but you really gotta check out this one.

Well, I got distracted and forgot to post that I released a new version of this plugin back on December 30th. Whoops!

Anyway, new in this version is much better alphabetical sorting (previous versions weren’t 100% correct) as well as some other small bug fixes. It’s a suggested download. :)

I’ve finally released the entirely recoded version of my Quote Comment plugin.

For those who haven’t heard of it before, this plugin allows commenters to quote other comments in their reply. It is highly cofigurable, all via an admin area options page. Try it out here.

As for what’s new in this version, well, everything is. In v1.x, the plugin was very simple. It’d take the content of a comment and use it to create a link that would paste the contents of that comment into the reply box.

Now, a placeholder is used instead. The default placeholder format is this: [Comment ID #123 Will Be Quoted Here]. When a comment is requested, Quote Comment replaces the placeholder with the real comment. The advantage of this is that any edits to the original comment show up in the quotes, formatting of past comments can easily be changed, etc. The only drawback is that the person quoting is not able to only quote part of the comment. Perhaps I’ll think of a way to do that later.

But for now, what are you waiting for? Go download it now!

Well it’s finally 2006 here! I hope that this year will be better or at least as good as the last for you all. :)