I’m looking for someone to work closely with on a few interesting projects and I thought my blog would be a good place to find the best and brightest. It is paid contract work, and could keep you busy for a few months. Experience with WordPress is a must, and being in the bay area is a strong plus. Email me if you’re interested and include links to any WordPress plugins or other code you’ve written.

This is funny because I just saw Zoolander again on Monday, but Models.com has a new WordPress blog which features—you guessed it—lots of models. Looks great. I found the site because they made a donation to WordPress.

43 Things’ word on the Salon story, on their blog of course. (Powered by Textpattern.) “I guess we have faith that the blogosphere will get the story straight even if Salon distorts it.” Update: They’ve removed the bit I quoted! I don’t know what that means.

My Ta-da List down again, and I’m faced with the fact that it’s a Monday and everything I need to do is on that list. I’m reminded why I distrust hosted services. I don’t want to be upsold to Basecamp, I just want a simple online service to manage my tasks.

I got word a little bit ago that 2Wire, makers of the modems everyone with SBC DSL gets and a cool new DVR, are using WordPress internally. “We tried salesforce.com and now we use WordPress exclusively!”

Earlier I noticed that FreeBSD has a WordPress port, which means you can install WordPress automatically, just like on Debian and Gentoo. Only with Free software. 🙂

I may have to take back the nice things I said about MySQL earlier, I had forgotten how much of a pain the new collation stuff is. I’m sure they could have added character set support in a more transparent fashion.

It seems I’m seeing more and more great designs in WordPress blogs, where previously the really gorgeous stuff was either hand-rolled or on another system. Citizen Dmitri is a great looking WordPress blog, Binary Bonsai is still one of my favorite designs right now (try out the LiveSearch). I need to start keeping up my well designed list again. Hat tip for Citizen Dmitri: Dave.

New Kleptones mix which I have temporarily mirrored locally from Andy. (Individual files.)

I’ve been enjoying Lifehacker.

The Technorati Tag API is Broken, or so asserts Kevin Burton. The post is a little old and the comments don’t seem to have gone anywhere. I think the tag having to appear in the URI is a weakness, and a restriction that isn’t reasonable under many hosting enviroments. That said, my understanding of rel="tag" is that they don’t have to link to Technorati at all, they can link to your own taxonomy and not Google bomb key terms. (As WordPress does in 1.5.) You don’t even really need to use the links, since they spider categories and dc:subject from RSS feeds anyway, but if you do tag you posts using the link method, it might be worth using nofollow.

Study: Few bugs in MySQL database, which is good to know, since an increasingly large portion of my life is being put into MySQL. (And Apache, and PHP, but not so much Linux anymore. I’ve been setting up a new FreeBSD server and it rocks.)

Semantics in Markup of Ranked Tag Lists and the accompanying CSS demo is really cool. Too bad Technorati probably won’t adopt something like this. Perhaps another taggregator will?

Mark Ghosh takes a fair and balanced look at WordPress 1.5 Gamma. “Wow!”

It seems like Feedster has redesigned and looks a lot better. Some silly validation errors, but I’m sure they’ll get to that soon enough.

While Googling for Light HTTPD information I somehow came across leahhttpd, an interesting HTTP server, with many of the features you’d expect. However, its default error pages are certainly unique.

Wallpaper of the day: Texas Bluebonnets (click on picture for full-size)

My entry on Trackback Spam has been getting a lot of traffic today, unfortunately.