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Seriously, I’m going to go all “tech nerd” on you this post. So if you’re not into that stuff… you can safely ignore this post and you won’t miss out on a thing.

Number one. WordPress. I told you I upgraded to the newest version (2.1 - Ella)… but let me tell you, it’s wonderful. I mean, it’s still the same-old blogging tool, and it mostly looks the same, but the more I use it, the more I discover little things I like.

For example, drafts. I can get halfway through this post and then decide that Tegan and I are going to go watch Hidalgo and that I’ll finish this post later. I can either save it as a draft (and I could do that before), or it will autosave it for me every so often (If you’ve used Gmail before, you know the feature I mean). Also, I can do this with pages now! If you go to “writing” in the top menu, you get a 404 error. Actually, the page is there. It’s just in draft form so I can work on it without messy construction pages. Pretty neat, I’d say!

Number two. PHPBB. If that was gobbledygook to you, let me explain. It’s the forum software that I’ve used for many many different forums… CYF, HF, and now TTF. Well, since I’ve got PHP installed on my computer now that I use for layouting for wordpress and such, I decided to install phpbb on there so I could work on Caleb’s layout without messing up the actual forum. Well, I did that… but then I got lured into the PHPBB3 beta testing pages.

Me? A beta tester? Goodness, no. I’m just a “noob.” Actually, I’m not anymore. I’m realizing that more and more. So, um, I’m beta-ing PHPBB3 now. I installed it about fifteen minutes ago and I’m already head-over-heels in love with it. It’s like version two, but hyped up on pixie-sticks. Oh goodness, you can do everything. Custom profile fields. Custom BBCode. Attachments. Mass PM-age. Easier usergroups. Neater filing on the back end. Moderator logs. Group colors. Bot logging.

This might be worth resurrecting a certain dead forum. The minute this is distributed in a stable, user-ready version, I’m upgrading every forum I own. I’m in love. I’m head-over-heels, nerdily in love.