Another W3C blog uses WordPress, this time from “Richard Ishida, W3C Team, and Internationalization expert.” Hat tip: Karl Dubost.

Saw M. Night Shyamalan’s The Village earlier tonight. It was very interesting, I’d recommend it. Bryce Dallas Howard was gorgeous.

The Nero site has a decent XHTML/CSS layout and is just a few hairs away from validation.

WP-Wiki 1.0 released, enables wiki-like linking for your WordPress blog.

Unpopular Culture, putting public domain texts online one chapter at a time with discussion in the comments. Powered by WordPress. Check it out! Hat tip: Kairos News via Hit and Run.

Thanks to everyone that wrote in. I am okay, I just haven’t had anything to post in a day or so. I guess when people get used to a deluge of content every day if that stops people get worried. Sarah got back from her two week tour of China a few days ago so I’ve been seeing her a lot.

It’s always humbling when you’re searching for an answer to something on Google and you come across a page from your own site in Google. It’s even worse when that page has the answer. I want Technorati or Feedster to show three types of hits: those from my own blog, those from other blogs, and those from Google.

Perl Special Variables

If you’re a Debian user Kai is looking for testers for his Debian WordPress package.

OpenSSH for Windows, where was this when I needed it last month?

Karl’s big list of Open Source Content Management Systems has been updated.

Am I the only one getting 5-10 “Google Password Assistance” emails a day?

It looks like the email stats thing was adding over half a second to my front page load time. So it’s temporarily on hiatus while I tweak my queries so it won’t be so slow. Have about seven thousand ham and twelve thousand spam in the database, so that may have been slowing it down.

Image browser plugin, oldie but a goodie. Don’t remember if I linked this already.

Some screenshots of Gnome 2.8. Looks nice. Like any true geek, I’m more interested in the nice shadows on everything than the actual improvements. Are the shadows stock? 😉 I keep going back and forth on my Linux desktop. I’ll use Gnome for a while because it seems cleaner and then I’ll switch to KDE because I seem to get more done and I like things like being able to press Win + M to minimize all the windows. Hat tip: Wes.

MySQL Manual – Client does not support authentication protocol, how to get new MySQL (> 4.1) to work with old clients (like PHP4 installed on my Powerbook).

Peiratikos On Blogging

Link Linker 0.5, lets you easily link sites using a simple syntax. I’ve seen plugins like this for other systems, but what’s beautiful is this uses the WordPress links database as its source for perfect integration and a great interface.

I just finished reading Great Hackers by Paul Graham. I think he hits some key points pretty well. Personally I’m very sensitive to enviroment when getting work done. As with any Graham essay, it’s as interesting to see what he took at as what he left in. View source on the page and read the HTML comments. His old essays used to have some real gems in the comments but most seem to have been scrubbed. Wish I had archives.