Born to Plog. Classic.

Cory on Life Hacks 2.

I seem to be in between Wonkette and Belle de Jour, whatever that means.

For those that missed it, ScriptyGoddess is running on WordPress now.

Ryan Boren on cruft-free URLs in WordPress: “With the next release, every link generated by WordPress should be cruft-free.” He should know, he’s been writing everything useful in the cruft-free URL space since my initial implementation.

Enterprising girl in Singapore is offering WordPress installations for $5, and pledges to donate half.

Scot Hacker on WordPress: “Not prepared for something this polished and smooth.”

Quick and easy emerge guide.

TV hath charms to soothe the savage breast.

Shelley’s Parable of the Languages, a re-run, but one of those re-runs that makes you feel nice and fuzzy.

66,639 pings on Ping-O-Matic yesterday, let’s see if we can beat that today. 🙂 I rewrote the pinger deamon in Python, because the old PHP one was crashing the system on a regular basis. The new one is amazingly light, and was ridiculously easy to write. So now Ping-O-Matic is powered by PHP, Python, Perl, and caffeine. Right tool for the right job.

I’m not sure why they’re still working on a WordPress Blacklist when that functionality is built in to 1.2 in a very robust fashion. At this point patches to improve the included blacklist/moderation would be more useful to the average user, I think.

Work-safe art, John Ashcroft would approve.

RSS 2.0 specification clarifications. This looks simple and effective, two things I like. If this goes through I’ll update WordPress’ RSS import to follow these guidelines.

Harry Potter 3 was fun. I could see it again.

WordPress subscribe to comments plugin from Jennifer. Upload two files, add one line to your template, and activate the plugin on your admin page. Beautiful.

Fellow WP developer Alex has released his cursor-aware quicktag code under the LGPL. This is one of my very favorite features of WordPress, and its ease of use is one of the main reasons I haven’t adapted a meta-language like Markdown personally.

Tanya — Raving Lunatic: “At one point he said “they can have my organs after I’m dead. Not before,” and I found myself thinking, “well that’s perfectly sensible. I can get behind that.””

I could enjoy these more if I cared for the design of the site itself. Sequels always have trouble.

Meet The New Blog—Same As The Old Blog.
“In other words, dear comment spammers and trolls, you are both now officially extinct. The asteroid has hit, and you are a herd of triceratops. Time to die.” Aaron doesn’t dig the template structure.