Now normally, I don't mind being all long winded about plugin upgrades, because it's usually just one or 2. Now because I'm picky and awkward, the WP auto-upgrade for plugins doesn't seem to work on my server. Instead of fixing that, I simply wrote a bash script. The contents of which are:

#!/bin/bash


 


if [ $# == 2 ]; then


                new=$2


else


                new=$1


fi


 


if [ -d $1 ]; then


                rm -rf ./$1


fi


 


wget http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/$new.zip


unzip ./*.zip


rm ./*.zip

Not sure if anybody wants to use that - I'm sure it could be improved, but it satisfied 2 of my needs. I now have an easier way to update (and install, I guess) plugins, and a lesser desire to code things. I now have to think of my next blog topic so I can get back on track!

It's a massive overhaul of the current dashboard...actually no...it's a totally new dashboard I've had a poke and a prod around various sites, and it does look quite funky (and yes - the Wii style avatar things are true, but they don't look that bad actually).

I'm really quite looking forward to it, hopefully it won't be ridiculously slow when it's finally released (I can think of a certain (read: current) release that can be painfully slow at times...)

I also found a link to what looks like a genuine (if somewhat small) gallery of images for the new dashboard.

ShackNews Gallery: http://www.shacknews.com/screenshots.x?gallery=10254&id=122358
Wired Blog Post: http://blog.wired.com/games/2008/07/pics-xbox-360s.html

Official Xbox.com Announcement: http://www.xbox.com/en-GB/E3-2008/nxe.htm