wordpress™ wank

Hang on to your hats people, this one may shock those of a nervous disposition. In response to the introduction of a new! improved! spellchecker that also polices your posts for grammatical errors and stylistic infelicities (I thought that was my job? what will become of my Sword of Pedantry now?) I enquire:

When you say ‘English’, do you mean American English?

I know, I know. I must hang my head in shame for daring to hint, yet again, that not everyone in the world is American. How can I express my contrition? I will just have to try my best to swap my ‘ise’s for ‘ize’s, spell ‘colour’ as if I were writing CSS, and then I should pass muster with the Homogenizer and there will be no more trouble. (Or should that be ‘troble’?)

aw, Scoble got hacked after abandoning wordpress.com for not letting him be quite Special enough to have plugins. One cannot blame Matt for experiencing some schadenfreude, though blaming the host rather than Scoble sounds disappointingly like he’s scared of losing any chance of him and his dollars coming home to VIP-land. I bet he wouldn’t be criticising Rackspace if it were on the wordpress.org affiliate page.

Seriously, though, why is anyone who gives a shit about not having their blog hacked still using wordpress? Do they actually enjoy having to upgrade every couple of weeks? I never thought I’d say this, but there are more important things than pretty themes when you’re choosing a blogtool. I think we can now officially declare that WP is the Windows of blogging. It’s easy, it’s convenient, but the tradeoff is YOU GET WORMS.