Sephy’s Platzish

This is a bit of a rain-shortened version of the weekly wrap up, but I have all the regular features in here, with a slightly different focus.

Posts I liked

• First up, some sad news in the blogging world - Radioactive Jam is calling it quits. At least for today.
• Also, if you’re in the UK, you can check out BBC’s iPlayer for video of penguins flying; or just view the spot that aired showing off this rare species of the bird.

New Blogs in the US Blogs Community on Bumpzee

None this week

The US Blogs community is open to bloggers in the US that are a part of the Bumpzee community. If you’re interested in more about the community, you can view the main page of it.

Keywords

• scroogle blog - They don’t have one as far as I know. However, I can do nothing other than wholeheartedly recommend using their search instead of google - it’s the same, just without the tracking.
• offline blog writer - I’ve talked about w.bloggar, however I think that there’s a new winner in my book - look for the details soon.
• home security - This came in via Google Blog Search; why are you searching blogs for that? If you’re concerned, try regular google or the yellow pages…
• blogger paid move to new domain and host - If you’re looking to move your blogger blog to a new domain, then that’s as easy as setting it up. If you want a paid service, then you might want to consider going with WordPress 2.3
• wordpress 2.5 why do dashboards look different on different blogs - Well, that’s likely because some blogs upgraded to the new version and others didn’t. Apparently user input was sought for the 2.5 dashboard - I’m still not buying it…

Around the blog

This week, I talked about my misadventure when it came to my first go at releasing a theme. I’m glad that I’ve learnt a lesson from that, and now I just need to get cracking on reading the information in the Codex about themes.

Another adventure I had was the one in getting the ingredients for an attempt at making risotto. It came out fantastic, and the leftovers tasted really good, especially when I added a bit more cheese to it.

Also, with the release of WordPress 2.5, came my trying it out. First, I wasn’t excited, and now I know it’s going to be given a wide berth when it comes to being placed on my main site now.

Coming up in this shortened week, I’ve got a bit of a complaint about gasoline - yes, the price is high, but everyone is pointing fingers everywhere but where they deserve to go.

‘Til next week y’all!