Hi Dave,
I was urged to login and moderate a comment (to a previous blog I'd 
written) on the staffslug.org.uk site, when I noticed more than a few 
updates are required to various plugins -- and more importantly -- 
Wordpress itself.
Now normally I'd click through the upgrades, as the web interface 
itself handles this quite well in my experience. However, it's prompting 
me for FTP details to upload the files via FTP, which I assume is either 
your configuration choice or a fallback to not being able to write to 
its own directories (mod_fcgi or mod_ruid2 needed, etc.)
In any case, here's a reminder that this should probably be done sooner 
rather than later. Too many people target Wordpress. :(
Tom