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Just a short post to inform people of the upgrade to WordPress 2.5, which occurred just under and hour ago. If you were on the blog during the upgrade, you no doubt saw a lot of error messages, which were caused by me messing around trying to get all my modifications working.

The upgrade really only affected the back-end of the site, so only registered members will see anything different, but I thought I might as well tell people why the site was down.

WordPress 2.5 had some radical changes to the back-end, making it much easier to use and great posts. So it means that now you have even more reasons to join The Atheist Blogger and start writing! *hint hint*

If anyone finds anything wrong with the site (bug wise) then please report it using the Contact Form.

Whilst I’m on a subject non related to atheism, I thought I might interest you in some site statistics:

Top Operating Systems

Top Browsers

Top Referrers

As it stands, StumbleUpon is by far the top referrer (no surprise really), but Reddit and Del.icio.us are also referring their fair share.

I was planning to watch the controversial movie “Fitna” on LiveLeak.com and write a summary / report on it, but as I settled down to do so, I found a lot of reports from various other blogs saying that the film had been removed from quite a few places on the web. On LiveLeak itself (on the homepage itself) the following message is displayed:

Following threats to our staff of a very serious nature, and some ill informed reports from certain corners of the British media that could directly lead to the harm of some of our staff, Liveleak.com has been left with no other choice but to remove Fitna from our servers.
This is a sad day for freedom of speech on the net but we have to place the safety and well being of our staff above all else. We would like to thank the thousands of people, from all backgrounds and religions, who gave us their support. They realized LiveLeak.com is a vehicle for many opinions and not just for the support of one.
Perhaps there is still hope that this situation may produce a discussion that could benefit and educate all of us as to how we can accept one anothers culture.
We stood for what we believe in, the ability to be heard, but in the end the price was too high.

I haven’t watched the movie yet (although I plan to after I write this), but if it’s anything like what I have heard about it, I’m honestly not that surprised. After the whole fiasco over one image of Muhammad with a bomb for a turban, I dread to think what repercussions will occur for a film that is purposefully against Islam.

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