Today I have made a bit of progress on two fronts of development.

First, I have been able to finish installing the last plug-ins needed into this wordpress installation.  WordPress is an amazing content management platform in its own right — it really goes beyond merely a blog package at this point. The user interface is extremely friendly, and there is a wealth of plug-ins available to extend the basic package.  However, that also makes for a somewhat disjointed system, as many plug-ins have somewhat overlapping features.

Second, I have been working on some core server administration duties; however, even though I have spent a day working on the systems I have yet to get the things working!