As some of you may remember, I’ve been using a 32gb solid state drive in my desktop for a bit not, and I’ve been happy with it. Enough so that I was ready to make the jump to take apart my laptop and retrofit it with a SSD, and Toni was brave enough to volunteer as well. One problem — they’ve disappeared. All of the stores that I could previously find it from don’t have them anymore. Where did all the SSDs go? BTW the best news source I’ve found for SSDs is Engadget’s tag page.

Full Code Press is a 24-hour contest to build a website for a non-profit. Pretty cool idea.

Some Community Tips for 2007 from Mr Haughey.

The party Monday is on Upcoming, and also got some coverage at Laughing Squid with a bit of historical perspective. Also next week on Thursday is the NewTeeVee Pier Screening, which looks like it’s going to be a fun event.

Truemors, the new rumor site from Guy Kawasaki, is built on WordPress. It joins 71miles as a cool app built on the WP framework.

I had the pleasure of chatting with Rafe at CNET the other day, and both parts of the video interview are now online. Part one covers monetization, lolcats, Microsoft, and Twitter; part two talks about version 2.2, stats, Akismet, and Web 2.0.

WordPress 2.2: Three Things Developers Will Like. Also check out Aaron’s 10 things you should know about 2.2.

WordPress 2.2 “Getz” is now available. Go get it! It’s totally worth upgrading. Here is Stan Getz and Dizzy Gillespie playing It Don’t Mean a Thing if it Ain’t Got That Swing to listen to while upgrading, you’ll be done before the song is.

It is pretty annoying tha the “tag” system in Thunderbird bears no relation to any tagging system implemented within the past four years. It is, at best, a non-folder-based categorization system, and doesn’t even have a particularly good UI for that. Thunderbird 2 also took away the views dropdown, which was an eminently useful feature, and the only way I can find to replicate it is to create search folders, which are of course are a lot clunkier. Might be time for a downgrade. Update: You can add back the views dropdown from the customize menu. Sweet! PhotoMatt.net readers rock. 🙂

At the end of the month I’m going to Greece for the Greek Blogger Camp on Ios Island. It looks like it is going to be fun, and the registration is very reasonable (30 euros) so I hope to see some of you there.

Derek Powazek, an inspiration to many of my early online activities, is now blogging with WordPress and has released his theme, the DePo Clean WordPress Theme.

On Saturday night (because that’s how we roll) we launched WordPress.com stats plugin for WordPress.org bloggers, and it’s gone incredibly well so far. We’re coming up on our first full weekday since launch, it’s running on 2,750 blogs already and tracked about a million 1.3 million pageviews today. A few bugs popped up, of course, but that’s life in software.

“So, PostieCon (a conference sponsored by PayPerPost) was among the most controversial things I’ve ever done. People really hated that I was speaking there. I got constant crap from my friends and foes alike because of my decision to speak there. But, it turned out they didn’t have enough attendees so they postponed it to November.” — Robert Scoble

Nanoweb is an entire webserver, like Apache or Lighttpd, written in pure PHP.

If Microsoft were to buy Yahoo, I wonder if it would have an impact on PHP?

I’ve put a placeholder for the WordCamp 2007 site. The location will be the same as last year, the main change is there may be a nominal registration fee.

Sphere, which I’m an adviser to, has just re-aligned. What do you think? Update: They also have a WordPress plugin.