Handy Dandy Guides to MD5 and passwords, in which you can see why we use that method for WordPress. Hat tip: Sushubh.

Matt May, best known to me for his accessibility work and employment at the W3C, appears to have switched to WordPress. Also, congrats on the 5k (which has nothing to do with computers). All he needs now are cooler URIs.

Finished up a Will & Grace mini-marathon and had some great buffalo wings at “BW3” with Kathy, Sarah, and and Kathy’s husband Tom. Great food and company. 🙂

Lisa Williams uses the Dewey Decimal system to categorize her WordPress blog. Krazy.

Fighting for Apple, a nice overview mainly addressing why Michael loves his Mac. I’m the last web-geek I know that doesn’t use a Mac, and the peer pressure is pretty harsh.

WordPressing matters: Fixing Press It for FireFox 0.9, this will of course be in the next release.

I made some much needed cleanups to the URI structure around here. I changed my links, but yours can stay the same. Every previous variation of permalinks all the way back to when I first started with b2 still works, and all serve permanent redirects to the latest and greatest.

Eric Meyer: Elemental Nomenclature. If I had to name everything the same it would stifle my creativity so much I think I’d go back to tables. A better start to this would be instead of looking at the naming scheme of a dozen or so web designers, look at the naming scheme of widely used blog software. Is it worth all that work for such an amazingly small minority of users though? User stylesheets have never taken off, and I seriously doubt they ever will.

Turck MMCache Vs PHP Accelerator. I used to use PHPA and then migrated to MMcache recently, however I had to turn it off because it kept segfaulting when compiling KSES files. However the caching functions and shared memory stuff is really neat.

Free FeedDemon Crack

WordPress IRC channel, #wordpress on irc.freenode.net.

Jeffrey Veen on FeedBurner and Ping-O-Matic, sorry if I already blogged this one.

Thunderbyrd WordPress wish list, what’s neat is almost everything is covered through plugins. Also see the official wishlist on the wiki.

Neat color shift widget, includes a Photo Matt color scheme. Fun to play with.

11,000 and counting.

2 million and counting.

Load all your mail into Gmail, at a rate of 30 messages per minute. I don’t want to think about how long this would take for me. Hat tip: Carthik.

Oh yeah, who needs to support IE 6 in new standards? It’s not important at all.

The *.weblogs.com sites will be back up soon and there are several options for moving to other Manilla providers or importing to WordPress.

When I’m in SF next week I promise I’ll try to get Tantek to blog again.