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I'm going to Beijing again in November, for the Chinese Blogger Conference 2007.

Aha, finally I have the chance to meet my good friend Scavin, he owes me one for his new domain name. But of course I'd like to meet more people there. Such as the foreign guy feng37 who currently lives in my city blogging about social events, and a Hong Kong blogger Sidekick whom I didn't realize that he's actually a she until lately. But too bad Tinyau's probably not going.

Meanwhile, I'll try to exchange some thoughts with some of those who also attended WordCamp Beijing 2007 but never eyed on me. Moreover, yet another joyful dinner with aw, Hu Yang and Yangyc is expected. I went to Google China last time, it's baidu's turn. And what else? I'll figure out. See you in Beijing.

By the way, Nicky will be going to Andy Lau's concert tour on the day I arrive, but I'll be running to Markus Schulz'.

Yep, I upgraded to WordPress 2.3 and started using a new theme "BlueScent".

I had waited so long for WordPress 2.3 to come and planned to change the permalink structure to better use the native tagging support. But I got stuck at the second thing. Neither of the two reputed redirection plugins worked properly. At last I had to manually add redirection rules to .htaccess. So I really need to remind you: NEVER change your permalink structure, unless it is really necessary and you fully understand how to do it. Or this risky task will definitely piss you off!

Theme was entirely rewritten last night, codes are now tidy, and satisfying. The design is not completely new, I had been using a similar one for a week or so around January this year. But I never had time to finalize it. It was formerly with bubbles in the post entries section, which made me want to vomit after using it for a short while. So no bubbles now. The bottom area has gone because I don't know what to fill it with. Also I plucked away menu tabs, simply because I'm seeing them too often. So no tabs, just a common list of pages at the right top corner. You may say the calendar-look date mark is what you've been seeing too often. I won't fight it but just let me try that at least once.

Any thought on this theme? Please drop a line.

The permalink structure of this blog has been updated. I used to include "category" in my permalinks but since tags have been greatly promoted in WordPress 2.3, I believe that categories are going to be disfavored by both users and the development team in the future. Thus I abolished it (so far not completely though). Meanwhile I've activated the plugin Permalink Redirect. This plugin will be serving my blog till Google gets all my permalinks updated.

WordPress 2.3 RC1 is out, the final version will not be far away. I have to catch up, hopefully by the time 2.3 arrives, I can finish my new theme and give this site a slight yet graceful reboot.