So I changed my WordPress theme again. A few things broke on my old theme with the update to 2.7. I wanted something cleaner anyway. It is now nice and clean with minimal plugins. Just one of the many things that I am cleaning up this year.

Today must be “play with new stuff day”.

First, there was the release of WordPress 2.7. WordPress has always been super easy to update. I have been using the WordPress Automatic Updater plugin, which takes literally seconds to update. I bet it took me three minutes to update four WordPress sites. Apparently, this feature is now built into WordPress so I will no longer need that plugin. The new dashboard is nice and clean and customizable, but frankly, I don’t use the dashboard much. Most of my blogging is done from MarsEdit.

Second, Google Maps now has the street view option for Fargo. It was pretty cool to see the streets of Fargo in greater detail. I found my house and saw our two cars in the driveway.

Third, I started fiddling around with Windows Live. I figured their SkyDrive would be another good place to have my photos backed up at. With the 25 GB you get for free I should be able to back up all my photos at full quality. You can never have enough backups.

What’s Next?

It seems like I am changing my blog template more often than my underwear. For my last template I wanted something simple, and something that brought all my social network posts together. Shortly after I released that one, Chris Pirillo came out with his WicketPixie theme. It is pretty cool because you can enter all your social network links and it will automatically get the favicon and integrate them into your blog. You can visit my “social activity” page and see all my social network activity. I still have some CSS tweaking to do. I ran out of time last night, and wont have much time to play with it for a while now.