Today I spent some time upgrading my installation of WordPress to the most recent (2.04) as well as installing some new plugins and updating others. All of this is in anticipation of migrating this web log from the CapMac server to my new host (WireNine) where my new domain is waiting.

Along with migrating this blog to the new site I hope to be more timely in my posts here. To keep me honest I’ll encourage several friends to visit and hopefully that will provide the necessary inspiration (or guilt) to be more proactive in my efforts to chronicle things that others might find interesting.

It’s easy for a half hour of WordPress maintenance to turn into an afternoon, not because it’s complex or difficult, but because there are so many cool plugins to explore and experiment with. When I see a cool WordPress blog that has a feature I’d like to have it’s time for a search of the WordPress Plugin Database. Inevitably I find not only what I am looking for but several other items that I can’t pass up.
If you’d like to see which plugins are currently installed at Rancho Chase click on the link in the sidebar which generates a list in real time with download links. Also, if you’d like to keep up with what’s new on a daily basis (I call this the “VersionTracker Syndrome”) add the RSS feed for newly added WordPress plugins to your newsreader.