No, not that kind of 404. I’m talking about the first, much needed update to TextPattern–the content management system that powers this site–since December ‘05, now version 4.04. Usually “point releases” are largely insignificant, but in this case several things were fixed and changed. The only visually noticeable changes are on the admin side with the UI, and those are a refined control panel which has a better-kempt design than the previous. There’s also some other admin-related changes, but I won’t get into that. If any thing this just means the site will run a little more smoothly. For instance, the RSS feed is now version 2.0 and actually works (the previous didn’t insert any timestamps)!

If you’re looking for a great CMS/blogging webapp and aren’t afraid to get your hands a little dirty (though less dirty now with 4.04), then I can now definitely suggest that you download the awesome and free TextPattern.