A day of “rest” that ended up being a 8 hour hike in the tussocks (which are really hard to walk through), up to Red Hill, some interesting birds, tracks, bones, skulls, and two moose.
Monthly Archives: June 2011
Alaska Day 3
After swimming in the river the previous day, work up to snow in the morning. Playing with ice fragments and a nice hike.
Alaska Day 2
First day of really rafting down the Canning river.
Flying to Camp in Alaska
First day in Alaska, flying toward start point on the Canning River in the Arctic National Wildlife Reserve.
Joseph Scott has written pressfs, a WordPress filesystem. Cool!
Here’s an update on WordPress woes in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. As far as I know we’ve had no contact with KazakhTelecom. Typically this happens when they don’t like something a blog is saying, so they block or degrade service for everybody. The footer of the site links to Global Voices Anonymous Blogging with WordPress and Tor guide, which is still excellent all these years later.
Mark Jaquith writes WordPress local dev tips: DB & plugins.
{EAV_BLOG_VER:c967aa2d93c7cb18} Mark Maunder writes Can WordPress Developers survive without InnoDB? MyISAM vs InnoDB benchmarks.
ExpanDrive, a program I’ve used for years, allows you to mount FTP, SFTP, or S3 accounts as local drives on your computer on Mac or Windows. They just released their new Windows version, and it’s fast and slick. They support key authentication, which is my must-have feature.
The Selby goes with Pharrell Williams at Home in Miami. Explore the rest of the site, this is actually one of the less-interesting galleries.
Alec Baldwin, my favorite character on 30 Rock, has a great-looking WordPress-powered site. It was also built by Alley Interactive who did the Observer site I blogged about the other day.
Gopher dead, blogging lives. “If blogs are dead, what are we reading in Instapaper?”
Four Cool WP .gov Sites
I was in Washington DC last week at the OpenGovDC conference where I participated on a panel about design. The organizers and many of the speakers were pretty Drupal-focused, but I did get to meet some folks and learn about the ever-growing use of WordPress inside the Beltway. Here are four:
- CFPB, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. This is the best-looking of the four, and 100% WordPress.
- MO.gov, Missouri State. Is there a LESS.gov? 😉 The show-me state has a solid WP-as-CMS going here.
- Office of Compliance. As exciting as it sounds.
- NCCS.gov, National Center for Computational Sciences. Website is okay, but center is super-cool: they provide super-computing (tens of thousands of processors) for open scientific research.
Any other favorites? Particularly well-designed ones like consumerfinance.gov.
How To Run A News Site And Newspaper Using WordPress And Google Docs. This is why I love saying “scripting is the new literacy.” A bit of scripting glue can tie together Big Projects like WP and Google Docs to create something completely novel.
Gamasutra: Greg McClanahan’s Blog – Achievement Design 101. Long article, but worth getting through. I’ve had it in Instapaper forever.
WordPress Publisher Blog: Influential Weekly The New York Observer Migrates from Drupal to WordPress. Cool!
Every 60 seconds on the web there are 50+ WordPress downloads and 60+ new blogs created. Hat tip: Andrew Nacin.
Six years ago on this blog we scheduled a WordPress meetup in Seattle which ended up including a number of folks who are still changing the web today, including Bre Pettis, Robert Scoble, Chris Pirillo, Matt May, Filipe Fortes, Andy Skelton, Scott Berkun, and Lee Lefever. We’re going to do an informal 2.0 tonight at 6 PM, Friday June 3 at Pike Pub & Brewery on 1st Avenue in downtown Seattle. Come by and share a beer, reminiscence about trackbacks, and talk about the future of the open web. It’s short notice, so please spread the word to your Seattle-area friends.