So according to Preople I should use Matthew instead of Matt, though I have no idea what that number is based on. I found this service via Om and it seems like the whole rank thing is a clever way to get you to register and start blogging. Here’s my Preople blog and profile page. Capitalizing on people’s ego is always a sure bet, so I predict this service might do pretty well, though it obviously has some very rough edges right now.

A lot of the same people who rant and rave every time Internet Explorer has another security snafu are being strangely silent about Firefox’s recent flaws. I wonder how many of the web technorati are willing to give Firefox a pass every now and then because of its superior standards support? The Firefox team is also to be commended for their rapid response to the issue on the only site that’s vulnerable by default.

Kevin thinks Google is building a Singularity Machine.

WordPress has the most blogging market share in Switzerland, above even Blogger. Maybe that’s where the WordPress World Tour should go next. 🙂

Apparently we just had a small earthquake here, but I didn’t notice it. Living in California is always full of surprises. 🙂

I just upgraded to the new 1.5.1 release by running svn up. Total upgrade time? 3 seconds. That’s hard to beat. Unfortunately updates like mine don’t bump the counter.

Scott Berkun wrote a great book on Project Management and now has a WordPress blog about being a new author. He’s doing a meetup in Sunnyvale on Wednesday which should be fun. Anyone need a ride from San Francisco? I’ve never been to Faultline.

Michel has benchmarked PHP Markdown being faster than the Perl version.

Ten ways to live longer.

I’ve been mentioning Newsmap to people lately so I thought I’d link to it here because it has a terrible URI and I always forget the name.

So Google has done what hReview dreams of in the future, and they’ve done it without boiling the ocean and making everyone change their markup. If we all do million dollar markup we can enable multi-million dollar search startups to compete with billion dollar giants, with the obvious economic incentive for the hoi polloi being increased traffic from placement in the content aggregators.

I’m going to be following Tagsonomy the new group blog on tagging, which is built on WordPress. The tag experiments on the support forums have been going alright but I’d like to make the heat map more of a discovery mechanism, perhaps allowing time or random elements to weigh more heavily. 43 Things comes to mind. Any good code out there for this?

A Python library for working with WordPress, English info further down on the page.

Blogger Mobile launches, making moblogging so much easier. Very smart.

Wow, 200,000. Okay, time for a new release. 🙂 We’re also trying to work with hosting providers doing auto-installs so those are counted better, right now just Dreamhost is counted.

The include page plugin lets you include the contents of any page in any place in your template. This could be used to create discrete sections of your page you manage through the posting interface, which I know a lot of people would like.

Jeff Minard redesigns for reboot and the site looks great. Everything you see there is powered by WordPress.

The folks behind Divx are blogging using WordPress.

Dave Winer turns 50! A lot of the stuff I work on day-to-day would be very different if it wasn’t for Dave, so here’s to a very happy birthday. Your work is much appreciated. 🙂

Nokrev won the check-in prize for the Theme competition, sorry it was late!