retro MacOS theme for WordPress. I’m pretty sure this is before it was called MacOS, that’s how old it is. (Hat tip to Bill Detty.)

Anita Rowland, a blogger who linked to this humble effort several times in its more energetic first year, died of cancer in December.

(If I were still in the habit of reading blogs, I might have known that before now.)

I had forgotten, until Mike Linksvayer reminded me, that Users must be registered and logged in to comment was switched on. Akismet seems to do a good job of catching spam, so I’ve turned off the registration requirement.

Fellow WordPress users! If you find that bits of Unicode in your archives have recently (=in version 2.2 or later) become illegible, comment out these lines in wp-config.php:

define('DB_CHARSET', 'utf8');
define('DB_COLLATE', '');

Philippe “Goulu” cites my sphere arrangements page and discusses the subject thereof, in French.

WordPress 2.1 was announced the other day, and they’re soliciting suggestions for the next version. Here’s mine. Go there and tell me I’m all wet.

Akismet appears to be effective in protecting WordPress blogs from spam.