WordPress 2.6

A month ahead of schedule - which may or may not be a good thing - and coming complete with its own video for the youngsters.

What looks very good is the new plugin interface which  divides active and inactive plugins, felt by many to be overdue.

Apparently, and this is only horrible rumour at this stage - the medium-vaunted login system isn’t doing for Firefox 3.0…

Also, as heavily trailed, there’s the Gears thing….

There are a lot of things we can do with Gears in the future, but in this release we’ve stuck to using what’s called a “Local Server” to cache or keep a copy of commonly-used Javascript and CSS files on your computer

I’m sure there are indeed many things to be done in the future - because there’s that G word again - now of course we all have dealings with this entity, but are we all in quite such danger of being seen as a Mini-me to the 2 Mr Googles in their underground lair…?