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Just trying out the WordPress iPhone app (from the bus no less).

A deeper iPhone review is on it’s way - I’m still trying out some things.

Since I was just about sick of my old blog theme, I spent some time this weekend and worked up a new one.

It’s heavily based on Tarski, with a few local tweaks. Tarski worked out great as a base, and I highly recommend it.

I couldn’t sleep tonight so I made a bunch of improvements to my blog:

• Switched from using Ultimate Tag Warrior for tags to just using Wordpress’ built in categories as tags. UTW broke with Wordpress 2.2. Now my /tag/* links work properly and things are a lot cleaner.
• A tag cloud widget in the right-hand column that actually works now.
• Digg integration
• Some new plugins in the back-end you won’t see.

Also of note is that I’m posting this from the Blogging Bundle for my new favorite text editor, TextMate. Very cool.

I’m upgrading to Wordpress 2.1, so there may be some issues in the meantime. Stick with me…

Update: I’ve fixed the permalink redirection. Thanks for the heads-up Stuart.

I don’t know if anybody else has already created one, but it seems almost too obvious and simple to not do it.

I whipped up a Wordpress Widget for the new Del.icio.us “Tagometer” badge. No need to thank me, its probably the simplest widget ever written.

Download Del.icio.us Tagometer Widget (.gz file)

Super-simple install. Just download and un-gzip in your “wp-content/plugins” directory and enable it in the control panel. You can then add it like any other Wordpress widget. No configuration necessary (or possible).

You can see an example at right, under “Tagometer”.

For those of you who are old fashioned, you can also call the functions directly from your Wordpress templates to customize where the badge ends up.