Not dead, just sleeping.
Seriously though, I haven’t given up on this blog, I just took a break for a week or so due to things getting a bit out of hand for me and also because I’ve been doing a lot of work on the backend of this blog.
In short, I liked the design, but [...]

As so frequently pointed out by open source proponents; the greatest thing about open source software is that anyone can modify, create and build on existing code and products. Flock is a notable example, as is Songbird and even Chrome.
BuddyPress was a project to convert a vanilla installation of WordPress MU (Multi-User) into a social [...]

Good news for plugin authors with the changes coming with WordPress 2.7. So far the features which have currently already made it into the release are:

Today WordPress 2.62 was released as a minor update to 2.6.1 and includes about 10 bug fixes and patches a security issue:
With open registration enabled, it is possible in WordPress versions 2.6.1 and earlier to craft a username such that it will allow resetting another user’s password to a randomly generated password.  The randomly generated [...]

Some of the latest extension-based news from around the blogosphere:

Hack WordPress WordPress Plugin: Display your comment count to your readers
A Feedburner-like chicklet to display your total blog comment count
LifeHacker Battle of the Must-Have Firefox Extensions
16 extensions to choose from, vote for your favourite.

Disqus went down today for about half an hour or so.
Previously (eg: 3 weeks ago) Disqus going down would be a big deal. That would mean no comment system for any disqus enabled blogs, and switching to default WordPress commenting would mean no previous comments stored on the Disqus system.
Luckily, thanks to the new WordPress [...]

WordPress.org, great resource though is, frankly sucks when you want to sift through the crap and find some decent plugins.
I actually find it easier to simply Google what I want which usually finds it far easier then using WordPress search.
Obviously it has annoyed others as well, Yoast.com had this to say:

Logged into the Extendably dashboard today to be greeted by this message:

This is a bug fix release, but also returns some functionality which was missing in the Disqus 2.0 plugin, originally removed.
After the initial Disqus 2.0 release some issues where reported, and consequently fixed in a build released very quickly afterwards. These included:
Not being [...]

The WordPress development team have been working at an incredible pace and pushing out update after update.
Major release 2.5 was only a few months ago, 2.6 was a minor update about a month ago which addressed some issues and provided some great feature enhancements, especially Google Gears integration.
2.6.1 was released today to address about [...]

Disqus is a service which aims to make some changes to what may be the most frustrating aspect of blogging; comments.
Comments are, in a way, the focal point of a blog. Forget Scoble and all that lot with FriendFeed (although as you’ll notice, I’ve integrated that as well), most blog readers don’t use FriendFeed [...]