The install DVD for Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) (Amazon Link) arrived about 3 hours ago… and here are some ‘first thoughts’

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A quick post about the blog… As you can see, the blog has undergone an update, and there are two major changes.

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I have now taken to blogging using Textmate – why? Well, it has got some great features and I am finding it faster to blog with Textmate than with Ecto. Blogging with Textmate is not for the timid – but if you code and like using a text editor it is the way to go. And, I am particularly enjoying using Markdown.

One thing I was finding frustrating was that Textmate would only return (fetch) the last 20 posts and there was no way to go back and find old posts for cleaning up and editing (which is what we needed to do over at thesnowsite blog). However…

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Not major news but the MMISoftware weblog has been upgraded to WordPress v2.1.

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In a recent post (see Site upgrade) I talked about upgrading the blogging software on the server to WordPress version 2. Well, bad news, WordPress version 2 breaks Ecto and causes it to hang when trying to retrieve the categories for blog posts.

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