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Slither - Velvet Revolver

I'm now getting into Grappa.

Grappa, also known as Grappa Wine, is an Italian grape-based spirit of between 40% and 50% vol. It is made from the distillation of pomace (also called marc), i.e., the pieces of grapes (including the stems and seeds) that were pressed for the winemaking process. It was originally made to prevent wastage by using the leftovers at the end of the wine season.

If there's a specific Grappa you think I should try, let me know. My parents are headed to Greece in June and I've heard Greek Grappa is quite good, so if there's a specific variety that I can ask them to bring back over, let me know.

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Changelog. Upgrading instructions. Download updates. Download Quickstart. Bugs fixed.

The initial thrust of this release was the new look and feel for the administration console. The previous look and feel sucked! The new look and feel is consistent across browsers, more eye pleasing, and more extensible.

There are a number of plugins in this release to combat comment and trackback spam. If there are other methods outside of IP filtering (with whitelist and blacklist support as well as ranges), link spam detection, and spam phrase detection (with regular expression support) you think would be useful, let me know. The plugins available now are a start and they'll evolve for sure.

I also introduced two new service "integration" plugins.

* The Technorati tags plugin allows you to add Technorati tags to your post that link to other Technorati-tracked posts from around the web matching those tags. The plugin is extensible so that you can change the way the tags are output in the blog entry.

* The del.icio.us daily posting plugin finally allowed me to make use of my delicious-java library, . Eating your own dog food isn't just fun, it's del.icio.us. If you read my blog then you've noticed my del.icio.us daily links postings. I'm using the daily posting plugin to make this happen. The plugin is extensible so that you can change the way the blog entry is formatted.

If you want your weblog to get "noticed", you'll want to "ping" one of the weblog update notification services. I've been using Ping-O-Matic exclusively for quite awhile now. It sends an update "ping" to over 14 services. In the blojsom 2.25 Quickstart bundle, the default weblog notification service setting is now set to Ping-O-Matic. If you would like to use Ping-O-Matic, set your update notification services setting to http://rpc.pingomatic.com.

I'll be sending out an e-mail to the blojsom-users mailing list later on today to get the missing translations for the other supported languages. Right now blojsom supports translatations of the administration interface in English, German, French, Korean, Brazilian Portuguese, and Swedish. I'd like to grow the number of supported translations. If you're at all interested in translating the administration interface, please let me know. It's simple and straightforward. So, the deal is ... agree to do the translation and I'll send you a blojsom t-shirt. I've got a whole bunch of new t-shirts in various sizes and they're not doing me any good sitting in a box.

Enjoy!