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Over the past few months, I’ve neglected regular posts. I don’t like that one bit. Many interesting articles have passed me by, and I’m not going to let that happen again. While I can’t promise a complete turnaround, I will promise I’ll do my best to catch you up, starting right now.

Phone Review: Motorola RIZR Z6tv

Back in November I purchased a new phone, and I promised I would review it. While this will be no spectacular review, here are my thoughts on my new phone.

I absolutely love the RIZR Z6tv. Although the Z6tv has nowhere near the functionality of the iPhone (I have an iPod touch for that), it functions just fine as a traditional cellular headset. The features are great, all Bluetooth profiles are enabled, the new Verizon user interface is a welcome improvement, and the reception is marvelous. In fact, I would say the reception is the best “new” feature of the phone. I’m seeing coverage in areas where I previously had little to no signal, and I’m picking up EVDO in areas where I previously had a weak 1x signal. If you’re in the market for a traditional cell phone with Verizon, I would not hesitate picking up a Motorola RIZR Z6tv.

FreeNAS Revisted

Early February, Paul Stamatiou managed to generate some buzz with his 200 Dollar PC series. I took the bait and ended up significantly upgrading my FreeNAS box. While I had originally planned the upgrade purely around saving space with the Mini-ITX form factor, a few weeks later I found myself completely overhauling the storage as well. I’m glad I did, as my FreeNAS box is now my central storage hub. I backup with Time Machine, rsync website backups, connect remotely over FTP, and store nearly every season of my favorite television shows directly to my small, slick server. Here are the specs to get your geek on:

WordPress 2.5

I’d like to now give an awesome shout-out to the WordPress commit crew and Happy Cog for a great release of WordPress 2.5. I’ve upgraded my blog earlier this week and couldn’t be happier. I thought WordPress 2.3 was amazing from a developer standpoint, but you blew that out of the water with an even better user release. Here’s to many more.

With that said, earlier in the week I completed my plugin and theme upgrades to WordPress 2.5. All plugins that I currently support should now work fine under WordPress 2.5. However, WordPress 2.3 users be weary. I dropped support for WordPress 2.3 in the majority of my releases to help speed up adoption of WordPress 2.5.

Funny Moment of the Week

I’d like to bring this post to close with perhaps the greatest moment of this South Park season so far. I don’t want to spoil the funny, so just sit back and enjoy the next two clips. If you like what you see, watch the full episode.

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