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Matrix Reloaded Cup
On Milk
I didn’t realize how fast time passes until I started buying milk.
Wired Markup
Campaign Game Mimics Real Life was a decent article and the game looks fun but what most impressed was that they used the <cite> element to mark up the game name.
Spam Whoops
I had forgotten to check the spam folder on one of my accounts for a while. Over 67,000 spams caught by SpamAssassin!
IBM Blogs
So Sun uses Jroller and IBM uses WordPress. As Carthik says this looks like a staging setup.
Adsense Idea
Wouldn’t it be neat if instead of requiring a crawler bot to visit the page the adsense javascript could actually scrape the page text that the user sees (like a screen reader like JAWS) and use that to formulate the ad in real-time? That would prevent people from cloaking pages for the adsense bot an would allow it to be used on pages that you must be logged in to view the content. I know it’s probably impossible, but it’d still be neat.
Platform Buzz
Breakdown of publishing platform buzz, shiny graphs! Forgot “word press”.
Danish Politician Blogs
David Hansson writes in: “Thanks for the link to Loud Thinking. You must have a pretty popular blog because you’re sending tons of people my way 😉 Also thanks for WordPress. I used it to put the first Danish politician in parliment online with a blog at http://auken.nextangle.com.” It’s a small world, and blogs are making it smaller.
Ping-o-Matic!
Pushing a cool ten million. The new database system is working out great.
Blog Appeal
“I’ll have you know, that WordPress is very sexy. Just ask any WP site owner, they’ll say that their sex appeal has increased by a factor of 2 since they moved to WordPress. And you’ve never been moved until you’ve been moved by someone like me.” I can attest to the first part. Shelley is doing WordPress/blog consulting to raise money for a new camera. If you’re in the market for that sort of thing, may want to drop her a note.
Keyword Idea
Idea of the day: create ad-hoc keyword caches using referrers from search engines for use with internal searches.
Google Doesn’t Read XHTML
Google doesn’t index application/xhtml+xml pages, geez what a mess. I prefer the rigidity of XHTML syntax but I don’t want the mess that comes along with it. Hat tip: Petroglyphs. Update: See comments.
Leap seconds
Dealing with leap seconds, I remember the days when 60 * 60 * 24 was good enough for anyone.
WordPress and Smarty
Donncha looks at Smarty and WP, again. It’s been done before, it’d be interesting to have a method that could automatically stay current with the native PHP methods.
New User Pages
New user pages on the WP forums, shorter but with more useful information. (And better code to boot.) Not sure if recent topics and posts by the person is the best way to provide a personal forum aggregator, but I’m open to suggestions.
Good About Page
Keith on A Good About Page. I’ve been giving some thought to this recently, Keith vocalizes a lot of what I’ve been thinking.
Loud Thinking
I came across Loud Thinking because I mistyped the domain I was trying to get to. What a lucky mistake.
Email Bounces
Had a few emails bounce this morning. If one was you just resend it and I should get it okay.
A New Mezzoblue
Dave redesigned Mezzoblue again, I dig.