PolarLava::Blog

PolarBlog V1.9.0 (Bloodhound) has been released.  The major focus of this release is the addition of Entry Trackbacks, Topic specific RSS feeds, and numerous bug fixes.

Enhancements

• Entry Trackbacks
• Added individual topic RSS feeds.
• Deprecated ENTRY_LINK and ARCHIVE_LINK, now lang file entries.
• Made display of ENTRY_LINK and ARCHIVE_LINK more consistent with other look and feel.
• Comment JS validation now uses language file to support localization.
• Added basic user management (password hints/change).
• Added "Display Disabled" notice to comment/trackback emails.
• Added Entry insert/update status message after action.
• Only load PHP Mailer at point it's required for notifications.
• Added custom X-Tracker to email header in notifier and POP3 poster.
• Added CHARSET to POP3 entry poster.
• Changed RBL Admin Listed IP's URL link text so table better fits in window.
• Added Comment Display Disabled listing to RBL Admin.
• RBL blocked comment replies no longer mailed to commenter.
• Added IP whois lookup to RBL Admin and comment admin view display.
• Future dated entries now show future dated display disabled.
• Updated XMLRPC class.

This past week I've learned of the most awesome site if you like (primarily) classic rock.  It's the Concert Vault at Wolfgang's Vault.

So what is it you ask?  Well, legendary concert promoter Bill Graham apparently taped large numbers of the shows he promoted.  These are recordings that were taken direct from the soundboards and are of amazing quality.  There are literally hundreds of shows already online and it grows every week.  We're talking classic groups in their early and prime days.  How about The Who in 1968?  Or ELP in the mid-70's?  Or maybe The Cars in 1978 just as they are about to hit the big time.  Yeah, you can go now.  :)

Here's to another year of spewing out this pointless, self-serving drivel.  This past year I've mostly been posting to the PhotoBlog and Beer topics, but occasionally have time to ramble on about other nonsense.  Here's the obligatory links to previous blogveraries:

  
• 3rd Blogversary
  
• 2nd Blogversary
  
• A Year of Blogging

I am not a basketball fan by any stretch and actually I have never really liked it at all.  But I will give the NBA credit for doing something that other leagues often don't do.  That is listening to the players and righting an apparent wrong that they made when they switched to a synthetic ball.  Kudos to you David Stern for listening and going back to the old leather balls. [Insert your own crude joke here.]