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Upgraded to the new Wordpress 2.1, simple as always. The admin’s a bit cleaner (although I’m still not a fan of the blue) and things appear to be organized a little better. Seeing the autosave down at the bottom of my post window is a nice touch. Font sizes appear to be boosted up a bit — a bit easier to read. The new Blogroll feature seems to be marked improvement over the old Links bit, but I haven’t had a chance to play with it yet. I’m currently only running a couple of plugins (Akismet, Feedburner & Markdown), all of which are playing along. (If anybody knows of a way to auto-translate old posts from Markdown to Textile…)

Also had to splurge for the new version of Mint — wow. Great update to the interface, although it feels a bit … pokey. (Most likely it’s just my machine, Firefox has been running slower and slower each day.) The new Bird Feeder Pepper looks incredible, but the setup is a bit of a bitch — I’m still not sure if I have it installed properly. 99% of what Shaun Inman puts out has an unbelievable amount of polish on it, but I can’t help feeling when I read through his documentation that there’s a bit of the curse of knowledge going on there. Definitely worth the $19, and I love the new look of Junior Mint. I’m sure there will be a flurry of small fixes and updates over the next month or so, as the new forums are hoppin’. As a sidenote, the new haveamint.com looks great, with the integrated account management, forums and Peppermill. Hopefully we’ll start seeing some cool new Peppers!

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