It’s official, I’m sick. Since Monday I kept telling myself this was just allergies but now my throat hurts and my voice is going and I need to accept the fact and start eating/sleeping/drinking in a manner consistent with getting better. Bad timing, but it always is. Posting will either be light or heavier than ever.

Eric is looking for someone good to write a CSS book

Speaking of lists, I have a small list of well-designed WordPress blogs I’ve come across. I’m open to suggestions, so if you have a favorite that isn’t on the list let me know.

I noticed today that about a third of my updated blogroll is now powered by WordPress. This is a skewed sample, surely, but at least half of those I never would have imagined converting. I was remembering today when WordPress first got started and out of all the developers I was the only one running it. Mike and Alex were still on b2 because they had a lot of hacks that would be hard to transition, and Dougal was on some funky system he had previously contributed to. (MyPHPBlog?) You could count the number of WP blogs on one hand. That was about a year ago.

ZIMoBLOG now uses Ping-O-Matic. Leave the hard stuff to someone else.

Novell is giving away copies of SuSE Pro. Step 3: Profit!!! Hat tip: dented21 in #wordpress.

Molly explains her move, an interesting read.

mod_validator offers several advantages to the W3C validator. Worth checking out if you run Apache 2.0.

WordPress plugin allows people to subscribe to a weblog through email. Nifty.

Molly E. Holzschlag, author of Teach Yourself Movable Type and much else, has switched to WordPress. Her switch was quite an adventure. Getting the data out of a partially-corrupted Berkeley database into something either MT or WordPress could parse really was a challenge .

Christine, who came up with the name “WordPress” about a year ago, has switched to WordPress from Movable Type. 3,500 posts and 17,000 comments were imported without a hitch.

Anyone have a copy of Danny O’Brien’s Life Hacks video from NotCon? (Update: The video is now online. I’m downloading it now.)

Rotten PEAR. I’ve noticed a “good ‘ol boy” mentality in most of the PHP “community” efforts. Is PHP succeeding because of its community or in spite of it? Hat tip: Jeff Moore.

How to make your Perl code more obscure

“Help bring us closer to the goal of replacing the graduate student in literature with a small Perl script.”

Use WordPress’ built-in authentication to secure your blog.

The story of the man the movie Terminal was based on.

Map out your posting locations, very groovy. Uses RSS.

Dan Brickley, creator of FOAF and W3C RDF advocate, is using WordPress.