Asymptomatic

It seems that people really don’t know what some easy to understand computer jargon really means.

I'm not confused, but I daresay that there are a handful of folks out there who are. Let me try to clear a few things up. There a couple of projects that you need to know about.

The first is WordPress. WordPress is software. Besides being the bane of my day-to-day, occupying much of my free development time and actually earning me freelance money, WordPress is the software that runs on this site to present this blog to you. (I'm being careful about avoiding this whole "Powered by" phrasing, which may become the topic of another post.)

You can download a copy of the WordPress software for free, and upon uploading it to a web host that supports WordPress' basic requirements, you can have a weblog up and running within minutes.

Another project is WordPress MU, from now on in this post called "WPMU" for disambiguity. WPMU is the Multi-User version of WordPress. It's a bit of a misnomer, though. WordPress itself supports more than one user. What WPMU does that WordPress doesn't is allow a central installation to control multiple distinct sites of WordPress. Kind of like Skippy's plugin. It should really be called WordPress Multi-Site.

WPMU is also released under a GPL license, which means (among other things) you can download an install it just like you can WordPress. After all, WPMU refactors the core WordPress code every so often so that it keeps up with all of the core version's features. But WPMU is being used for another WordPress project that is causing some confusion - WordPress.com.

We’ll remove the dull parts yet be sure to retain the sentiment of all the anti-gay, anti-abortion, anti-women gospel from the full-length version in this new abridged bible.

I’m going to pay bums to advertise my site.