I’ve been tinkering with it for months and despaired of ever finishing it.

It’s still not finished, there is definitely some weirdness but I wanted to get this redesign out so that I would have some added pressure to get it done.

What do you think so far?

Just installed WP for iPhone app and am testing.

I just upgraded this blog to v2.3 and I’m very happy about it. I’ve had RC1 running on a blog in development for a couple of weeks and I couldn’t wait to see if what I was seeing there was true.

IT IS.

Wordpress 2.3 appears to make significant improvements in speed. I’d say the load time has improved between 30-40% (although I have no data to back that up), just seems that way to me.

So, thank you Automattic and all you wordpress developers for the new version. I’ve barely peeked under the hood and I’m very, very pleased.

Now, the one, um, oddity that I noticed is that the inbound link module on the Admin dashboard now uses Google Blog Search instead of Technorati. Since Wordpress is quite the juggernaut in the blog platform space, I have to ask…

Is Technorati doomed?

What do you think?