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This weblog uses WordPress 2.3; I typically update the software soon after release.

For the reasons on why I chose WordPress over other blogging systems, see Weblog Creation and What WordPress Does Right.

Currently I’m using the Paintbrush design by Antbag. I’ve made a bunch of changes, for example to make Atom feeds the default, rather than RSS2. The single post pages have a different sidebar to the other posts, deleting the calendar and adding related posts in its place.

Plugins: I installed the SpamKarma 2 plugin, which manages to get rid of a lot of spam without my even seeing it, and doesn’t appear to have eaten any real comments so far, as well as the Bad Behavior/Bad Behaviour plugin, which is meant to stop bots before they even reach the site. The archives use the Smart Archives plugin. The related posts part of the single post pages uses Rob Marsh’s Similar Posts plugin.

For statistics tracking, I use StatCounter, following the recommendation of several Sun bloggers, as well as the Wp-Slimstat plugin for a quick dashboard overview.

Updated October 4, 2007