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Muxtape gets shut down. Pandora might get shut down. Everyone is pissed off. A call for patronage.
Dumber is Faster with Large Data Sets (and Disk Seeks)
Predictions for Apple September Thingy
YouTube - 1988 Paul Hunt gymnastics comedy beam routine
blackrimglasses - The Frustration of Wanting Something You Can’t Buy
How To Launch Software (Aaron Swartz’s Raw Thought)
Failure - [...]
Olympians on WP
Shawn Johnson, a gold medalist and WordPress-powered blogger. Dreamhost says “So far we haven’t had to do anything special to keep her blog up,” even though the first entry has over 1,100 comments. (Man, those things pop up everywhere now.) Any other Olympians on WP you’ve seen?
Projector Choices
I need to get a projector for the office and I’m having a hack of a time trying to decide on a relatively cost-effective projector that has a 1280 pixel wide resolution (generally 720p).
These two are the current leading contenders:
Optma HD70
Sharp DT510
I have a Sharp for my home projector and I’m quite satisfied with it. [...]
MT Pro w/ Comments
Movable Type Pro — with Comments! The latest innovation in blogging. See the original here.
WP Super Cache 0.6.7
WP Super Cache is a plugin for WordPress that creates cached copies of your blog posts and pages, making your site much faster to serve. It’s also ideal for coping with sudden surges of traffic.
I released a new version of the plugin this morning. This is a bugfix release:
Mike Beggs contributed a number of [...]
WordCamp San Francisco 2008 Photos
Adam Tow got some great photos at WordCamp. Update: Here are mine. See also:
This hilarious set with the WordCamp sign
Duane Storey’s
Randy Stewart’s
Ben Metcalfe’s
Andrew Mager
Nick from CNP’s
Jenn Vargas
Dennis Goedegebuure’s
Mark Ghosh’s
Lorelle’s
Chiropractic’s
Byrne Reese’s (MT developer, a spy? :))
Liz Danzico’s
Chris Heuer’s
Hugo Baeta’s
Alan Levine’s
Laura Iriarte’s
Jeremy Person’s
Niall Kennedy’s
Douglas Bell’s
Scott Beale’s
Emily Chang’s
The WordPress Tattoos
Some funny ones from the WP Scavenger [...]
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Fight the Future
Macbook + Coffee = Bad - one of those “laugh but also feel kinda sick about it” things.
blackrimglasses - Holy Jesus - power of attorney? - I can understand why they need it, but yeah…
Memoranda - some good points here.
The Long Term Performance of InnoDB - this is completely true, but as a [...]
When a dog loves a woman
The happy and sad story of Goofy, a dog rescued from Greece, who took over Belinda Harley’s life.
If you enjoyed story of Goofy’s rescue, look for the book, “Marley and Me”. It’s a lovely story, and you’d need to have a hard heart not to shed a tear by the end of it.
The only time [...]
WordCamp SF Coverage
The best ongoing coverage of WordCamp SF I’ve seen is on ZDNet today. If you post/Flickr use the tags “wordcamp” and “wordcampsf2008″. See also: Techcrunch’s coverage.
My WordCamp Photos
Photos from WordCamp San Francisco. Guest photographer: Heather Rasley.
WordCamp Utah
WordCamp Utah is coming!
September 27th is the date - registration is open.
I’m quite looking forward to this (particularly since I wasn’t able to make WordCamp SF this weekend), both as a speaker and as an attendee. I’ll probably be flying in Friday mid-day and out on Sunday.
Big thanks to Joseph Scott for organizing.
My company, Crowd [...]
Pre-WordCamp Dinner
A dinner for speakers and Automatticians at Jack Falstaff preceding WordCamp SF 2008.
WordPress 57%
Spinn3r Weblog Hosting Breakdown.
Tweet Tweet 0.1 for WordPress
I’m a big fan of Twitter. It serves as a useful tool connecting people who might never meet, and also as a vital means of communication for those who work at home or in solitary conditions.
The one huge and uncomfortable problem I see with Twitter is, “What happens to the conversation if Twitter fails?” What [...]
Theme Directory Interview
Matt Mullenweg & Joseph Scott Discuss The WordPress Themes Directory.
Macbook + Coffee = Bad
Everybody knows that you shouldn’t keep beverages too close to the computer, right? The reason is because eventually, your toddler is going to run up to give you a big hug before she leaves for daycare, and is going to bump your leg. Your leg, in turn, is going to bump the TV tray where you set your coffee cup. [...]
Debugging an XSS attack
Today I ran across a Cross Site Scripting (XSS) attack in the wild. Since the victimized site is run by a friend, I did a little digging to see how the attack was done so I could tell him about the issue and how to fix it. Here is a little background on XSS attacks [...]
WordPress at No. 10
You may have heard that the official site of the British Prime Minister’s Office at number10.gov.uk launched earlier today. The great news is that it’s running WordPress, but what really excited me is the fact that the site is also using WP Super Cache.
The site was initially very slow, but once the cached static files [...]
WordPress MU Domain Mapping 0.1
A long sought after feature in WordPress MU is domain mapping. That’s where a blog on a WordPress MU site can be “mapped” to a new domain. WordPress.com has an advanced domain mapping feature that has proved to be very popular with users even though it’s a paid-for upgrade.
This domain mapping plugin isn’t quite as [...]
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Paul Abrams: The McCain Strategy Is Vintage Karl Rove, the Media Loves It, and the Obama Camp Is Not Taking It Seriously Enough
tecosystems - Big Brother is Watching You. On Twitter.
Sprint: Sprint Finally Makes Good On 3G Data Capping - this totally sucks. (thanks Eric)
Paris Hilton Responds to McCain Ad - “I’ll see you at [...]
