Two cakes to share today: the first is a shared birthday cake we had at our Automattic offsite in Breckenridge and the second was put together by David Link just for the joy of WP (and cake). Yum!
Category Archives: Asides
Microsoft WordPress
Microsoft’s new Web Application Installer will install WordPress for you. Who woulda thunk it? You can read more on their Channel 8 blog.
Fight Clubness
Jose Saramago on WordPress.com
Nobel Prize winner Jose Saramago has two blogs on WordPress.com: O Caderno de Saramago and El Cuaderno de Saramago. Saramago, 85, won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1998. One of his novels, Blindness was turned into a movie of the same name, released this month. (Hat tip: Antonio Dias)
Gravatar Anniversary.
It’s now been one year since Automattic acquired Gravatar. “Gravatar now lives on about 20 servers. 2 Database servers, 1 File server, 2 Load balancers, 5 Caching servers, 9 Web servers, and 1 Development server. That combination of servers is handling an average of 7,214 of your requests every second of every day. That’s a whopping 623,293,056 requests daily!” Wowza!
Absentee Ballot Voting
Because of travel and uncertainty with my schedule I’m going to vote absentee in this election. There seem to be two good sites with wizards that walk you through everything: Go Vote Absentee and Long Distance Voter. Going into polls and waiting in lines seems like an anachronism. Someday I hope I can vote online.
Broken Kindle
My Kindle is quite broken, not sure how it happened, probably it got pressure in my bag or something? Since I’ve been professing my love of the Kindle to anyone who will listen maybe Amazon will send a replacement, if not I’ll try to go through support when I get back to the states. In the meantime, back to reading dead trees (or more likely not much at all).
In Berlin
If there are any WordPress users that will be in Berlin next week drop me an email – matt at my last name dot com. 🙂
Theme Revolution
Brian Gardner’s Revolution theme, widely regarded as the most successful in the “premium” theme space, has seen the light and is going 100% Open Source under the GPL. Definitely a forward-thinking and strategic move. I think this may shake up the premium theme space.
Bandwidth Caps
The Publisher
I’ve been dubbed The Publisher by BusinessWeek as one of their “25 Most Influential People on the Web.” Before anyone else writes in that I beat Rupert Murdoch, I think the slideshow is in alphabetical order. 🙂
Startonomics This Thursday
The Startonomics conference is happening this Thursday in San Francisco and looks pretty interesting, I’m going to try to go by.
Carrington
Alex King is on stage at WordCamp Utah and just announced and launched the Carrington theme. It allows really advanced conditional template displays based on any number of variables and executed by naming conventions and its structure. I think this could be the base for a whole new generation of themes and development.
Mark Cuban, Jason Calacanis, Hackaday, and Royal Navy
Mark Cuban, Jason Calacanis, Hackaday, and the Royal Navy all now have WordPress-powered blogs. The first three switched from Blogsmith. Hat tip: Automattic Publisher Blog.
Revisiting Moral Hazard
Revisiting Moral Hazard, by Bob McTeer. (Whom I’ve met.)
WordCamp Weekend
There’s not one but three four WordCamps this weekend. I just got back from China, where both the Beijing and Shanghai events were great. (More pictures coming soon.) This Saturday you can check out WordPress events in Portland, Salt Lake City (I’ll be attending this one, they asked me first), Vancouver, and Birmingham.
18 on 30 Under 30
Inc. just announced their Top 30 Entrepreneurs Under 30 and I came in at #18. Cool! Some really young ones on the list though — I’m getting old.
Going to China
I’m going to be in China later this week for WordCamp Shanghai and Beijing. Really looking forward to meeting all the WordPress users there.
Dropbox
Dropbox is open to the public now. I’d love something like this I could use with my own Subversion server.