I just finished reading Great Hackers by Paul Graham. I think he hits some key points pretty well. Personally I’m very sensitive to enviroment when getting work done. As with any Graham essay, it’s as interesting to see what he took at as what he left in. View source on the page and read the HTML comments. His old essays used to have some real gems in the comments but most seem to have been scrubbed. Wish I had archives.

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Multisite 0.1b, a multiblog implementation for WordPress. Haven’t had a chance to try it yet, but I like its simple approach. You could run a thousand sites off this. The next step would be a friendly interface to the configuration.

Anyone seen this user agent in their logs? Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.0; Windows NT; ....../1.0 )

Death of internet advertising. Hat tip: Politech.

Stock icons geared toward CMS use from the great folks at Firewheel. I wish we could use something like this in WP. Don’t buy them for us! Read the comments.

SCPlugin allows access to Subversion commands from the Finder

Free Blog Software and Hosting review. Hat tip: Mom.

Phil Ringnalda is back! Going on hiatus without warning worries people.

Import Blosxom to WordPress. Hat tip: Gordon.

Adam Greenfield gets refund from Technorati and explanation of what went wrong, however the rest of us are left in the dark. Airing your grievances in public is a good way to get a response from a company, but the squeaky wheel approach to communication doesn’t seem it would scale.

Gmail can now import contacts from a variety of CSV sources but there doesn’t seem to be any way to export contacts. Don’t be greedy!

Esmerel: Reasons for Saying Hello. Hat tip: Waffle.

Bash 3.0 released, looks like some neat stuff. My favorite bash tip is to put set completion-ignore-case On in your .inputrc file for case-insensitive completion. Lately I’ve been playing with zsh and it seems very powerful.

Michael finishes the Kubrick theme for WordPress, goes beyond just a style. Be like Mike with your blog. Where are the screenshots? Just like other enviroments there seem to be a few style leaders in the WordPress ecosystem and you can clearly see their influence in a lot of blogs.

Hugh on How to be Creative

I just set up a blog for Cathy.

Firefox UI design mockups. That’s how Matthew Thomas did them for WordPress. ASCIIIIIIII.

Just saw the Manchurian Candidate and it was really excellent. The end got away from me though. Does anyone know what happened there?

In a language war, don’t be so quick to push the button. A little Friday fun.