FROM: Javamancy, the Weblog
Wow! While the release candidate for WordPress 2.9 has been available for awhile now, the FCS version was made available earlier today.
With all of the commotion today, some of you may have inadvertently missed this lil’ tidbit o’ news!
If you’re a WordPress blogger or developer, you will certainly want to take a look at this… 
Earlier, the weather people across the various radio and TV sources had been hedging their bets on the estimated time of arrival for the snowstorm by pushing back the time to as late as just after midnight tonight.
Now, however, the latest news is that it will be entering the main portions of the region as early as 9:00 PM… and some of the outlying areas may actually experience snowfall earlier than that by a few hours.
The breaking news for the past couple of days has been about an impending massive snowstorm expected to hit the Washington, DC area.
At first, it sounded like something somewhat small-ish… but late yesterday and today, it escalated to something huge…
Folks, plan to be snowed in, in many places in the DC metro area: stock up on food and other essentials (toilet paper, ‘natch), and get some diversions ready. This may even be a good opportunity for some quality family time together…
Ouch! Twitter got hacked earlier… but it’s back in service now.
Is it easy or hard to imagine that a social announcement service like Twitter would get trashed by miscreants?
Although there has been a lot of skepticism shown toward meteorologists in the Washington, DC area for decades concerning snow forecasting, there may be something to the news over the past couple of days, and into today, about a very large snowstorm heading to the region.
Earlier reports had the accumulation at around 3″ – 8″, but that has been upgraded to 4″ – 12″, depending on the precipitation bands. I suspect that the estimate range will increase… After all, when it rains, it pours… and when it really snows, it just dumps a helluva lot. Right? 
Steve 9:00 PM on December 18, 2009 Permalink |
The link to the WordPress 2.9 release page (and Matt’s sense of casual witty writing) is: http://wordpress.org/development/2009/12/wordpress-2-9/
Steve 10:49 AM on December 19, 2009 Permalink |
Oh, and, folks: There are a couple of new features that will certainly pique your curiosity (at the least) and may be of great interest to many of you who blog on a moderate-to-frequent basis.
(Like, say, the global undo feature… FINALLY!!! Or the built-in image editor…)