Om says Paris Hilton Now PodCasting, someone call Dave Winer. As long as she doesn’t start a WordPress blog I think we’re okay — I’m not ready to jump the shark just yet.

Matt Haughey’s Fitlog is a
great use of custom fields for what has been called “datablogging” lately. We will be expanding our XML-RPC APIs with WordPress extensions to allow more remote programatic access to advanced WP features such as custom fields in the future.

This is the strangest bug I’ve seen in a while.

I just put up this old photo of some Charlie Parker music.

I just got a note from Billy at cPanel that WordPress is now a cPanel Addon Script, which means you will be able to install and keep WordPress updated automatically using cPanel which is installed on millions of hosts worldwide.

Ice.com, which sells jewelery, has a neat blog. Cool. (Groan…) Hat tip: Kenneth via email.

Remember Mark Jen who got fired from Google for blogging? He’s back, working at Plaxo, and on WordPress. Here’s the story of his switch. He has a style switcher that turns capital letters off and on. Hat tip: David via email.

I got ~15 spam comments with just a link to Yahoo and nothing else earlier. I wonder what it could be, usually when I get random spurts like this it’s with nonsense domains.

Yahoo Term Extraction looks really cool.

The theme contest winners have been announced, of course to be perfectly cheesy the real winner is the WordPress community. I’m going to need a day or two to get all the themes set up that accumulated while I was out, and when they’re all in I’ll do the drawing for the prize I’m sponsoring.

CNET Networks has a new corporate site where you can see the new logo I’ve mentioned before. What I found fascinating was the advertising rate card, I wonder what Jason would give for $111 CPM? I’m not sure what half of those ad units mean.

I guess the problem with a long piece is many just skim it, and the more words there are the more chance there is for the meaning to be lost. I’ve given a lot of thought to putting things as succintly as possible: Knowing what I knew then, I would probably make the same decision; knowing what I know now I wouldn’t even consider it. Not thinking through all the ramifications was a big mistake. So was not having more community dialog from the beginning, which would have caught this earlier. I am extremely sorry for both, and it won’t happen again. Thank you to everyone who has been so supportive. Amazingly, WordPress has gotten more donations in the last 4 days then it has in the past year — what an incredible community.

I’m meeting up with Michael and a few other local WordPressers. I’m not clear exactly on the location, but we’re going to meet in front of the Burger King in RÃ¥dhuspladsen at 14:00 and go from there. I’ll be in dark jeans and a Blogger shirt.

While in Florence I had the pleasure of meeting Ben Hammersley who took us to have real Tuscan food, which apparently involves parts of a cow you wouldn’t normally expect to eat. We chatted about a whole range of topics and I learned quite a bit about everything from solo polar expeditions to DNA hacking.

I’m in Florence and it’s absolutely beautiful here, but a little damp. Ciao!

The Seattle airport is crazy, I had to get on three separate trains to get from my landing terminal to the departing one. I’m glad I wasn’t in a hurry.

So I’m doing a little vacation this week and I’m going to be Florence, Italy until Tuesday the 29th, Venice until Friday the 1st, and then Copenhagen, Denmark through Sunday the 3rd. If anyone wants to do a WordPress/Photo Matt meetup while I’m in town, drop me a note. Also if you have any suggestions of things to do in any of these places please leave a comment. Blogging will be light this week, but I’ll be sure to take lots of pictures. 🙂

Technorati: The Technorati cosmos for wordpress.org now shows 96,194 incoming sources, another jump.

Scott has a picture of the new WordPress Corporate Headquarters on Flickr.

How to REALLY validate emails.