It’s the most wonderful time of the year: a new WordPress release is available and chock-full of goodies to delight bloggers and developers alike. We’re calling this one “Elvin” in honor of drummer Elvin Jones, who played with John Coltrane in addition to many others.

For details in full click here. I’ll be posting any new bits that I find useful shortly!

Check out the following great competition from Heart Internet:

http://www.heartinternet.co.uk/blog/2012/12/win-a-new-home-office-worth-over-1700-for-christmas

The Prize Bundle
Starting today, our Christmas competition will give you the chance to win over £1700 of kit to help you start the New Year with a fantastic new home office set up!
One lucky winner will receive:

• A 21.5 inch iMac
• A set of Bose speakers
• A 2TB Time Capsule
• A desktop gadget from Firebox.com
• A free VPS for the entire year!

How to Enter
To enter the competition, all you have to do is complete any or all of the tasks below. Each task is worth a different number of entries, and some can be completed once per day, so keep checking back throughout December to add more entries into the pot and increase your chances of winning.

The dust and cobwebs have been brushed off homer and he has spent the last couple of days being updated and sorted out. WordPress is will now be updated yet again, and some diskspace issues are being sorted out, in readiness for my new PC which we should hopefully be purchasing tomorrow. Geekfix.net is the number 1 priority right now. I’m determined to make it work!