Things are getting a little old and dusty around here as a result of me being quite busy with work as well as contributing more elsewhere on sites like flickr, ma.gnolia and newsvine.

To honor its crusty-ness I’ve aged the site’s color palette some, like a fine, aged, um, newspaper? Enjoy.

I’ve just upgraded the code behind both Place Name Here and ChunkySoup.net to the latest version of Textpattern. The upgrade was smooth though there were some gotchas with minor tag changes as some updates needed to my custom patches. Ultimately the changes look like they’re all for the better. Plugin updates are next, but they may take a little time [week or two i guess] so if you’re relying on any of my plugins let me know and I’ll try and move them up in the queue.

I’ve also made some minor template tweaks which you probably won’t notice. BUT if you do see anything odd please drop a comment below.

Some small updates around here. First this site is now marked with and registered as mine via ClaimID and microid. I’m not sold on the idea of microid just yet (particularly in its in content / as class form) but aside from hanging out a welcome mat for all my stalkers I don’t see any harm in using it to link up some sites.

I’ve also posted July stat reports for Place Name Here as well as the update for ChunkySoup.net. Bigger changes to PNH are still being planned… but more on that when I get some “me” time.

I’ve added some basic tagging support to posts here in anticipation of a few bigger changes I’ve got planned. The upgrade came via installation of the tru_tags plugin for textpattern and a few other feed hacks. If something looks off somewhere, or if feeds aren’t working properly please post a comment.

The templates on ChunkySoup.net aren’t yet updated, but if you’re on Place Name Here you should see a tag list at the bottom of this post.