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Firefox and Thunderbird have a new home and Firefox is now available in fully auto-updating v1.5 release. Go Get It! (0) (Firefox, mozilla, thunderbird)
I hate to imagine how long I’ve been waiting for Via’s nano-itx boards to be released. It seems that they are finally escaping out into the consumer world. I won’t be holding my breath though as there imminent release has been reported more than once before! But I want one, I’m not quite sure what for yet but I’m sure it will complement the Epia SP mini-itx board that powers this server. (1) (epia, mini-itx, nano-itx)
Yesterday when collecting my car from the garage after it had passed it MOT the customer service adviser mentioned that with my new style Computerised MOT certificate I would now be able to apply for my tax-disc on-line. In turns out that to apply for a tax disc on-line you have to meet the qualifications set out here and then you go to this new e-government website and fill in you details. I can’t wait to try this out when I have to renew my tax disc next year. Much easier than a trip to the post office to join a queue ;-) (1) (dvla, mot, tax-disc)

{{at around evening time}} November 20th, 2005 › Kew and Chihuly

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After spending yesterday evening in Bristol for a wedding we took the opportunity on the way home today to visit Kew Gardens to have a look around the glass houses and in particular to look at the exhibition of the glass sculptures by Chihuly.

I originally heard about these sculptures from Richard and after seeing some of the photos that he took and Sarah shared we thought it was well worth a visit.

Here are some of the photos I took today at Kew (for more see flickr)

Chihuly Ball

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WordPress v2.0 Beta 1 was made available late last week and by the looks of the activity over on the special beta forum a lot of people are giving it a good test! There is a growing list of plugins which have been tested with the beta for compatibility which can be found on the codex and everyone is welcome to contribute. I for one have to work on my version checker plugin to make it WordPress v2.0 compatible as the current css leaves it overlapping the main logout and profile links. (0) (beta, plugins, version check, Wordpress)
I’ve been behind the curve for a while now. But no longer as I now have a wordpress.com blog! Not exactly sure what I’m going to write on it but it will definitely be WordPress related. Go read westi.wordpress.com now! (0) (wordpress.com)

{{in the early morning}} November 3rd, 2005 › Windows WordPress Toolbox

In preparation for the first WordPress Bug Hunt this weekend Mark Jaquith has written some excellent instructions on how he “does work” on WordPress on Linux / Mac OS X.

Skippy who is one of the hosts of the bug hunt was looking for a Windows version of Mark’s cheat sheet - So here or those of you using Windows the following instructions show you how to achieve the same things.

First of all you need to install an svn client, the svn client of choice on Windows has to be TortoiseSVN which is not only a subversion client but also includes patch application functionality and visual merge tools. Once you have installed TortoiseSVN you will now be set and ready. So here is the “Working on Windows” version on Mark’s instructions:
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{{in the early morning}} November 2nd, 2005 › WordPress Bug Hunt - 5th Novemeber 2005

This Saturday there is going to be the first “WordPress Bug Hunt”. The aim of the event is to blast through all the outstanding bugs in Trac marking fixed those already fixed and working on developing fixes for those that still exist.

Skippy recommends that you bring along a text editor and a fresh install of WordPress 1.6-ALPHA-2-still-dont-use a good way to do this is to setup a local install on your home computer for example using XAMPP if you are running Windows or using these instructions if you are on Mac OS X - It both cases don’t forget you want to install the latest svn version.

There is a dedicated IRC channel for people to meet up on on the day and discuss the bugs which is #wordpress-bugs on freenode.

You don’t need any coding skills or experience to turn up. Just being willing to attempt to test whether or not bugs still exist will make you very useful as some of the open issues date from v1.2 and earlier and have quite likely already been fixed.

Update: There is now a dedicated codex page for info about the WordPress Bug Hunt(s)

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