This post is for those bloggers out there that don’t read all the various posts from the WordPress team that can be found in your dashboard, but rather wait for a notice at the top telling you it’s time to upgrade. WordPress 2.5, which is considered a major milestone, was released a few hours ago, though there is no upgrade notice yet. If you want to upgrade, got to the WordPress download site.

I have been reading information as the betas and release candidate were made public, and I understand that due to this being a major upgrade, there may be plugins that do not work, more work to do the upgrade, etc. We are heading out for the evening, but I will work on upgrading later tonight or tomorrow, and will report on the difficulty.

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Ok, so this guy is a reporter, not a postal carrier; but you still have to admire how he does not let the perils of a Canadian winter stop him from finishing his report.

That’s dedication!

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The weekend is finally here, but that just means I switch from doing someone else’s necessary work to doing my own. I really do need some undisturbed time to begin posting the Mexico pictures. I’ve learned a lot in the past couple of months about how I could make my digital pictures better; stuff I wished I’d known before our trip. That will be the stuff of future posts.

photo credit: Jeffery Simpson

But to start the weekend, we’re going across the border to Bellingham. Karin has been trying to find jeans for some time up here now, and it seems that as she gets slimmer it’s getting harder to find any without going into the range of ridiculous. Neither of us is willing to pay $100 or more for jeans. So we’ll head down for some US shopping as that will give us cheaper prices and brands that we don’t get up here. We’ve done a few trips already in the past year, but it still seems strange to do US shopping trips; those are something from my youth and until the recent exchange rate changes we didnt’ even purchase items when visiting my grandparents in Idaho. But it’s finally worth going again, and even worth buying things mail order.

Speaking of which, I got a new GPS logger last week. It’s the same model as before, a RoyalTek 2300, as I managed to ruin the first one on our trip. I’ll give more details later, but suffice to say that I found that model to be very good for geotagging purposes and so I ordered the same one, had it shipped to Sumas, and ran across the border last weekend to pick it up. I’m now getting numerous enquires from people on Flickr since I made a comment about this model, and so I’ll take along the logger and my camera today and hopefully will get a chance between stores to shoot a few pictures and be able to post quickly about it to satisfy people’s curiosity.

I’m off now, we’re going to cross the border before the line-ups form and eat an American breakfast. I’m trying to convince Karin that we should have Mexican for dinner.

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For those of you that missed it, Jimmy Kimmel had a long time running joke with Sarah Silverman in which they claimed they were dating. It all came to an end, though, with the below video.

When the video went viral, I’m sure Jimmy must have wanted to get revenge. His response came last night.

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