Was over at the WordPress Theme Browser the other day, looking for nothing in particular. Then I noticed that there seems to be a lot of new and nice-looking :wp: (even AJAX-enabled) themes available. Time to change, I reckon. Expect to see some changes either around here or in one of the sub-blogs in the near future!
Quick note to mention that photos from my trip to Canberra in early February are now online. Enjoy!
Just a quick note to let you all know that I am still around. 
For the first half of this month, I was in Australia to attend the Machine Learning Summer School held at the ANU. Well, should see some action here soon when I post some photos I took on the ANU campus and also of Sydney - including shots taken while (walking not climbing) crossing the Sydney Harbour Bridge.
Inspired by this, decided to create a similar list of in-built smileys recognized by :wp: out of the box for future reference.
The long-awaited Wordpress 2.0 has just been released a few days ago. Seems like there will be a new toy for the new year that is on its way!
I must admit, since migrating to :wp: about 6 months ago, I have been extremely happy with the ease of administration and customization, as well as the overall speed. However, as the latest new release is supposed to be a major upgrade from the previously stable 1.5 series (some plugins are are no longer compatible) and judging from the rash of upgrade-related problems I saw in the support forum, I will be upgrading my site slowly in the coming weeks. Hopefully this can minimize any unexpected catastrophes.