wordpress google checkout

How to integrate Google Checkout with WordPress? A simple enough question!
I decided to test the two obvious routes for flexibility, time, and complexity. Route 1 - using the Instinct eCommerce WordPress Plugin, Route 2 - a custom application of the checkout code to a raw WordPress install.
My hunch is that the Google Checkout code is [...]

Wordpress mechanic - running slowly?

So you think you have a slow running wordpress install. How do you quantify the slow ‘feel’ of the site before you start ranting at your host?
Here is a single line of code you can add to your theme footer to tell you how long your page took to pull together.
<p>The WP monkeys took <?php [...]

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