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My new site vmaware.net has finally gone live. This is my new digital playground for all things virtualization and related topics.

Not much content yet, but that is due to change pretty quickly. :)

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Update: Well, turns out vm-aware.net was already occupied by someone with very similar interests as myself, so I've renamed the site to vNinja.net to avoid confusion. Enjoy!

In an effort to try and clean-up my online presence, I've set up a new site blog.opticalpork.com. This site will, from now on, be my main photography/portfolio site.

This is the first of several planned changes in how/where I publish my online content, more stuff to come later on!

Smashing Magazine published an entry called "10 Weblog Engines Reviewed" and for some reason Habari was left out of the mix. I'm not one to complain about us not being included in the reviews, but it did get me thinking about possible reasons for Habari not even being mentioned.

Is it because not enough high profile sites run the software? Michael Heilemann recently migrated his binarybonsai site from Wordpress to Habari. Chris J. Davis also runs it, as well as Rich Bowen. Perhaps all we need to be considered a "serious" platform is a few more high profile sites? It might also just take review on a popular site, like Smashing Magazine, to push us up there with the more well known players. I would be very happy to see an impartial third party do a real review and compare Habari with "the others" and it would be really interesting to read the final review. I'm confident that Habari will stand up to the test very nicely.

Don't be afraid of the current 0.5 version, it might be a 0.5 release but it sure acts like it's a full blown 1.0 release. Have a look at our excellent admin interface and try it out. I assure you, you will not regret it. The unobtrusive post screens, the excellent media handling and general feel of the application will amaze you (screenshots).

Habari has a warm and very welcoming community that genuinely welcomes discussions and new ideas. New adopters are very welcome and everyone has a voice that gets heard. All in all, there is no reason why Habari shouldn't be on your shortlist when considering a blog publishing system. Come on, give it a try. We won't let you down.

Habari v0.5 has finally been released, with huge improvements since the last release. Many of the Habari users run their sites of the "live codebase" that lives in a not very secret SVN repository, but I'm sure there are quite a few installs out there that are still running the 0.4 release.

If you are still runing 0.4, or even earlier versions, you are in for a treat. I would go as far as claiming that this release is what makes Habari really stand out. The new Monolith admin interface, as well as many other improvements, makes this a real milestone in the Habari history

So, if you are an existing user, UPGRADE NOW. If you are still new to Habari, install it, play around with it and fall in love with it.

Kudos to the whole Habari Community who made this possible!