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Live on the Bleeding Edge of WordPress with SVN explains how to keep your WordPress Blog running the latest sub-version build of WordPress. It is highly recommended that you do not use the sub-version builds in a production environment. They are meant for testers.

The optional 2.6.1 release meant that blog administrators had to once again work on upgrading their blog software. I’ve compiled a list of changed files according to trac that you can use to upgrade your 2.6 blog to 2.6.1.
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About a week back I created a new feed that collates five of my feeds. This was done with the help of FeedBlendr. It is a good service, but there is a lot of room for improvement. The feed work but it seemed to give a problem with Feedburner.
I decided to give Yahoo! Pipes a [...]

I’ve been pondering about a way to offer a single feed that will take into account all the different feeds that I publish.
Planet Ajay
I’ve been searching for services that offer this but will confess I’ve been largely unsuccessful. I ran across Feedblendr which aims at establishing just that.
I’ve combined the following feeds:

Main Blog Feed
Comments Feed
Podcast
Ajay [...]

Inspite of the fact that my comment policy (has anyone read these?) is a little “strict”, I’ve been very liberal about comments and trackbacks on this blog.
My comments have finally risen and I’ve always believed to make it worth the while for you to comment out here.
I’ve had the DoFollow plugin for a long long [...]

Honestly, I am a little disappointed. I’ve been running the poll for five days now, and I’ve received only 25 votes.
I thought polls were something that people loved and I did ask a relevant question. Anyway, I’m going to try my luck again and implore my 250+ readers plus the thousand or so who wander [...]

Digg.com was one of the social networking/blogging successes of 2006, but recently it’s star has started to dim as people have started to question the efficiency of its voting system, that has actually resulted in a small minority, the ‘Digg Mafia’ deciding what makes it onto the homepage or not, rather than the wider userbase.
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Copyblogger has an interesting article on improving blog stickiness.
Of the four points listed the point that topped the list was “Ask”, which is something I believe in.
While this blog focuses on my life in general, it wouldn’t be successful without YOU. And what better way to ask than via polls.
I’ve signed up with PollDaddy.com [...]

There seems to be a problem with Feedburner on this site. All my feeds are throwing up a 500 error. I’ve written to their support team and am expecting a reply.
I’ve removed the redirect from the .htaccess and it hasn’t solved the problem as well.
So, if you are subscribed to http://ajaydsouza.com/feed/ then you should continue [...]