Neat color shift widget, includes a Photo Matt color scheme. Fun to play with.
Category Archives: Asides
WP Count
11,000 and counting.
2 Million
2 million and counting.
Stuff Gmail
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.
IEeeeeee
Oh yeah, who needs to support IE 6 in new standards? It’s not important at all.
Transition Plans
The *.weblogs.com sites will be back up soon and there are several options for moving to other Manilla providers or importing to WordPress.
Tantek
When I’m in SF next week I promise I’ll try to get Tantek to blog again.
SmartyPants On Demand
SmartyPants On Demand (instead of all the time). I’ve refactored some parts of Texturize so it’s even faster and smarter than before, and that’ll be in the next WP release. I got an email from a project manager at Google a week or two ago asking for a Texturize feature list and if the code was available. He wouldn’t say what they were going to use it for.
State of the Bonsai
Michael has a mid-blog crisis and axes his linklog. That’s too bad because he always had unique stuff.
Bookmark Sync
Firefox Bookmark Synchronization. Hat tip: Todd Dominey.
March
The part of this essay not about deliberately invalidating every page on your site is good.
Smarty
Smarty 2.6.3 is available, the new cache filename stuff is nice.
Pursuance
This is too beautiful not to share. Pursuance, the third movement of the Love Supreme, as performed by the Branford Marsalis quartet. When I first heard he was doing this, I thought there was no way he could do justice to the original. I have also heard a recording of him attempting Love Supreme from the early nineties and it wasn’t up to snuff. This recording, however, is amazingly intense.
WRT54GS
So I’ve tapped into Linux on my WRT54GS using the Sveasoft firmware, and it’s pretty sweet being able to SSH into your router. Should be very useful when I’m on the road as well. Local DNS cache is running great. Security stuff seems solid. Finally, Wonder Shaper is keeping my roommate’s games from bothering me. 😉
Putting Linux on the Desktop
Red Hat goes after the corporate desktop. The key is standardized hardware in corporate enviroments. Windows is excellent at working with any dang thing you plug into it, or the dang thing coming with a CD with Windows drivers.
Microsoft Lost the API War
Make HTML sing, something I work toward every day.
Augusto
On Principle
37 Signals takes a stand and turns down a big client.
Flux
This font is gorgeous. Ooooo I want it.
MT Pricing
Announcing Pricing & Licensing Changes to Movable Type, looks like they’ve hit a good balance.