Trotts & Dash plunge ahead in nefarious scheme to take over the internet, vow to restore uppercase I

1. 3.1 released -- dynamic pages is the big news, but my favorite feature is subcategories. I have longed for subcategories for longer than I can tell you and now...Photofluffer's going to get a makeover, for starters. I don't know what else. I was on the beta test (I can say that now, right?) but didn't get a chance to install until a few days ago, so I haven't played with everything. I'm still waiting for them to bundle navigate by category or sort_by last mod into the app, but I'm going to assume the workarounds I was using before still work and not get too het up about it, because those subcategories are cute as the dickens and I've got that glow.

2. MT-Plugins.org got a major overhaul to visually fit in with the rest of 6A's growing empire. It loads a lot faster and has a new section listing plugins that are compatible with MT3 (psst: EmbedImage works on 3, too!). A few minor beefs: that small, light grey text you use on all the sites? It's killing my eyes. And where'd the comments go? I can't count the number of times I've had a problem figuring out a plugin and found some other moron who'd beaten me to the punch and had the decency to leave a comment detailing how s/he solved it.

3. The Six Apart Professional Network (or, as Mena sugggested, the Six A-Partners (my eyes just rolled up out the back of my head)). This group was announced back when we all busy hating 6A with all our might (incidentally, there are currently only three trackbacks on Mena's post, and only one is negative -- c'mon people! They're way too cute to let them get away with that sort of thing un-pun-ished). There was an e-mail a week or so ago about it and now it's up and running, and if you are a Profressional Developer sort, you can get some nifty bonuses for signing up, though I don't know what I'm going to do with my own Anil.

4. Developer's Contest Plugin Pack. Just what it says. Available for download, includes compatible version of Blacklist.