I’ve noticed a lot of the blogs updating to 1.5 are using Kubrick, which is great, but a lot of blogs look the same now! Time to spice up your life a little with Owen Winkler’s awesome Kubrickr. What does it do? Well first you type in a word and it searches Flickr for all the photos with that tag and that have a Creative Commons license. Pick one of them, then it lets you choose which part of the photo you like and it crops the photo then gives you a download with the graphic to upload to your blog. How cool is that?

This blog seems to be stealing other people’s original content and republishing it, making it look like the author is writing for the site. Example: Original — Copy. This is the first time I’ve used nofollow in an entry. Update: In the comments Dan says he gave permission, so I apoligize, but it did look really fishy.

“Even though there have been significant changes in the admin interface and (i assume) the way that certain aspects of the application work, I had no problems upgrading.”

Richard emailed me about a blog called News in Chinese which shows news written in Chinese, as you may suspect, but what’s cool is when you hover over a word it gives you the English translation and enlarges the Chinese character.

More CNET news today, downstairs they seem to have a new logo going on. It’s a half swoosh.

Scoop! Download.com Blogs, half a dozen weblogs from the software site we all know and love. Disclosure: I work for CNET but I was not directly involved with this project.

Snap, the search engine from Bill Gross with some novel ideas, has a snappy weblog which has some interesting items about the creation and growth of a new search engine. Very cool.

43 Things’ word on the Salon story, on their blog of course. (Powered by Textpattern.) “I guess we have faith that the blogosphere will get the story straight even if Salon distorts it.” Update: They’ve removed the bit I quoted! I don’t know what that means.

I may have to take back the nice things I said about MySQL earlier, I had forgotten how much of a pain the new collation stuff is. I’m sure they could have added character set support in a more transparent fashion.

New Kleptones mix which I have temporarily mirrored locally from Andy. (Individual files.)

While Googling for Light HTTPD information I somehow came across leahhttpd, an interesting HTTP server, with many of the features you’d expect. However, its default error pages are certainly unique.

My entry on Trackback Spam has been getting a lot of traffic today, unfortunately.

Topix.net is built on flat files, not databases. My experience has been with the applications I do it’s easier to start with SQL and then cache to the filesystem/memcached.

How To Document Your Open-Source Tool, I don’t agree with it all but a good read.

The Register has a great interview with a comment spammer. Why can’t News.com do that type of story?

I caught the Tsunami benefit concert last night with Zack and friends and it was fantastic. I recorded some of the Ben Gibbard set and I’ll see about putting that up later.

Aguas de Marco, the Waters of March, by Antonio Carlos Jobim. If you don’t let the flute/whistle in the middle bug you it’s quite enjoyable, their voices flow so smoothly.

du -sH “du: WARNING: use –si, not -H; the meaning of the -H option will soon
change to be the same as that of –dereference-args (-D).” Now why on earth would they change that?