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Let’s see, this will be the 4th year in a row. Two of the previous 3 I’ve gone pretty deep and close to the prizes. Watch out world!

I have registered to play in the PokerStars World Blogger Championship of Online Poker!

The WBCOOP is an online Poker tournament open to all Bloggers.

Registration code: 291058

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Well you might notice a few changes around here. I used to have 3 separate WordPress blogs on my domain. One was used primarily for personal and tech stuff, one was primarily used by my fiance to post her cooking exploits, and one was purely poker related.

Well neither of us really post all that much and each time WordPress would release a new version it was pretty much a pain in the ass to upgrade all 3 installs. So I decided to just go ahead and combine them into one blog. They all used the same theme anyway with just color variations. Some of my family doesn’t really understand my interest in poker but since I never really was trying to monetize that blog anyway, they can deal with hearing about it. For those of you who know me from the poker world, hopefully you won’t mind hearing more about my fairly boring life. If you had been subscribing to a feed, you’ll need to delete it and start again with the feedburner link to the bottom right.

Oh and Astin, I don’t know if you had ever stopped by my blog before but I think you and Stephanie could swap a few good recipes!

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I’m posting this using the MarsEdit blogging tool. I actually have a license to the previous version of this software from a bundle but ended up using Ecto instead. A new version of MarsEdit has been released from a new developer that has taken the project over. It seems to add a few features such as Flickr integration that make it seem viable for me so I decided to give it another try.

Compared to Ecto 2, MarsEdit appears to be a much cleaner layout. Ecto 3 is closer but you have to appreciate the simple beauty of MarsEdit. For beginning bloggers there might be a little bit more of a learning curve with MarsEdit though as it does not appear to provide a rich text editing option. So you are creating your posts in HTML. It has a simple drop down with basic things like links and paragraphs to help you along though.

It’s too early to say for sure if I’m going to go ahead and pay the $9.99 upgrade price and start using MarsEdit exclusively but I’m going to give it a shot for the 30 day trial and see how it goes.

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This and my other blogs have all been updated to the latest version of WordPress, which now stands at 2.3. The biggest change is that tagging is now built into the core instead of requiring a plugin. It flawlessly imported all of my tags from Ultimate Tag Warrior (UTW) which I used previously. There are some issues with the new system such as no built-in method of managing your tags once used. However, there are already some additional plugins that handle this.

Now comes the fun part of making everything work smoothly again. This is from my backups, my blogging tool of choice (ecto), file uploads, the themes, etc…. It’s not as bad as I had originally thought but it’s still not something that I enjoy.

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Just testing out a new plugin for my Mint install to track people who read this through a feed reader. If you have a WordPress install, I highly recommend Mint if you want a more powerful and customizable tracking mechanism.**Note** It works, but you’ll have to resubscribe to the RSS feed it appears. Bah!

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So I hope that everybody that is available is planning on playing in the blogger big game tonight. Miami Don has one again taken the time to set up a slightly larger buyin event for all of the degenerate writers out there. This one is special as it’s included on the schedule for the Battle of the Blogger Tournaments series. You can see the current leaderboard over at Al’s page. I’ve only played in one of the events so far and of course donked out early. In blogger events I tend to either final table or be one of the first ones out. I think that I have a hard time adjusting my game to actually take into account when people might be doing some level 3 or 4 thinking. For those not in the know, here are the details for tonight’s event:

Tournament: Blogger Big Game
Where: Full Tilt Poker
When: Sunday, April 15th. 9:30pm ET
Buyin: $69+6 or token
Password: donkey

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A note to all out there. If you use WordPress for your blog and have recently upgraded, there has been a security breach and you need to upgrade again immediately. All of the details are at WordPress.org but here’s a quick snippet:

Long story short: If you downloaded WordPress 2.1.1 within the past 3-4 days, your files may include a security exploit that was added by a cracker, and you should upgrade all of your files to 2.1.2 immediately.

Longer explanation: This morning we received a note to our security mailing address about unusual and highly exploitable code in WordPress. The issue was investigated, and it appeared that the 2.1.1 download had been modified from its original code. We took the website down immediately to investigate what happened.

So if you are running that version, please make sure that you upgrade ASAP.

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