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The official wordpress app is finally available for Android! Posting this from my Motorola Droid. =D

Did a little spring cleaning on the site and added/scrapped some features. RSS Syndication is gone…. at least for now, and you also notice some spiffy new Twitter integration. If things work correctly, you should have discovered this update from a Facebook/Twitter update that is automatically kicked off whenever I update the blog. Something you might be interested in @thomasblade. All of my tweets will also be compiled and posted automatically every Sunday at 12pm. Oh, and yet another theme change since my old one had horrible widget support.

On the server side, new versions of MySQL and PHP…. just because. 5 hours later the site is up again. Backups are your friend.

Plugins:
WP-Cache – For when @thomasblade decides to DOS my site
Wordpress Backup – Weekly database backups? In my Email Inbox? It’s more likely than you think…
Twitter Tools – Twitter integration
Akismet – Spam control

Theme:
Elegant Grunge – This will likely change to something else because I cannot seem to decide on a theme

I decided to scrap the idea of setting up a dedicated hardware server to host my installation of SmoothWall. Instead I upgraded the RAM in my server from 512mb (heh, ouch) to 2gigs. Then I installed the new VMware Server application and things seem to be running pretty smoothly considering that my server is well over 5 years old and was never that powerful to begin with.

All there is left to do is hammer out the virtual networking kinks. I also added two more nic card, bringing my total up to three. I still need to figure out how to correctly set up the extra interfaces, so this brings an extra chanllenge to the mix, but will be worth it when all is said and done.

Another outcome of the virtualization solution, I have now set up a Nagios server running on Fedora 10. Now all there is left to do is get notifications working and set up some monitoring on my network. Maybe even posting Nagios notifications to Twitter, just because I can. =D

As always, stay tuned for updates…

So here is how operating systems work. BTW, HowStuffWorks.com is an awesome site to read if you are as bored as I am at the moment.