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Apr 26

Serendipity, or what goes on in the background ~

Serendipity isn’t only a fancy theory about coincidences and unexpected discoveries; it’s also more than just a cute movie with the great John Cusack and the gorgeous pre-Underworld Kate Beckinsale - soon to be Selene; to me and a growing number of people, Serendipity is simply the most awesome weblog software out there.

Even though it hasn’t even reached version 1.0 yet (the current official release being v.0.9.1, but v.1.0-beta2 is already available), the software has been around long enough to have matured and has proven to be tough, reliable, extremely stable and loaded with great features.

I was lucky enough to choose it when I started blogging and it’s been with me ever since. In addition to being free, easy to install and highly customizable, Serendipity (or sy9 as we call it) is being developed and supported by a bunch of extremely nice people.

Among them, mighty Garvin Hicking, core developer, has managed to get me out of trouble more than once with his extremely accurate comments and explanations, via the convenient Serendipity Forums.

Carl Galloway was the winner of the Serendipity Theme Contest and as such has joined the ranks of people working very hard towards the completion of pending version 1.0 (which will come with a new look: redesigned web site and new logo). His template will become a standard feature of the upcoming release.

Carl had a very nice comment about Coriolistic Anachronisms in his own blog under a post titled Some of the best looking Serendipity blogs. Thank you Carl, it’s much appreciated and an honor coming from you!

Keep up the good work, I’m looking forward to the new version of s9y!

2006-04-26 23:32 • Posted by Vince in Bits and pieces:

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  • 1 - Anonymous wrote:

    « Can you give us Carl Galloway’s blog
    address ? He seems a fine, original,
    generous and undoubtedly very intelligent guy since he appreciates
    your work :-) »

    Posted on 2006-04-27 05:36 •
  • 2 - Vince wrote:

    « You’re too funny, Jouche, and very biased... ;-) The address to his blog IS there, remember that I put links throughout my posts, that appear in beige? »

    Posted on 2006-04-27 10:45 •
  • 3 - NewYorkAngel wrote:

    « The more i read your writings, the more I feel that you and I are the same kind of ‘weird’ creatures, always looking for more, exploring the universe, eyes wide open. I’ve started travelling ‘the world and the seven seas’ a long time ago and I feel it’s like an addiction, something i cannot stop or even control. And it implies so many doubts, so much inadequacy with the rest of human kind that it hurts sometimes. But, I think you’re familiar with the feeling;-) So, to make a long story short, once again, I was bemused when i read: ‘All who wander are not lost. All who seem to deviate do not’.
    In all those magical pages of yours,so many of the words in front of my eyes seem to echo back in my soul, just as if they were mine. Thank you. »

    Posted on 2006-04-27 22:24 •
  • 4 - Vince wrote:

    « Somebody get a whip, she called me « weird ». I want REVENGE! ;-)

    No, seriously now, NYA, I was just reading one of your posts about NYC and it seems you love your city as much as I love mine. Cool. From one weirdo to another then, been the upperside of down, been the inside of out, but we breathe. :-) »

    Posted on 2006-04-28 00:38 •

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