Mounting remote filesystems with smbfs, good tutorial.
Category Archives: Asides
Upcoming Speaking
Coming soon to a town near you. I’ll be doing a keynote at Northern Voice in Vancouver, speaking at Future of Web Apps in Miami, and on two panels at SxSW Interactive in Austin, and kicking off WordCamp in Dallas.
SVASE Panel
Tonight I’ll be on a SVASE panel with Mike Cassidy, Naval Ravikant, and Peter Yared down in Palo Alto speaking on “How To Build A High Growth Startup Fast And Cheap.” Get all the details here. Zoli Erdos has some more information.
Rocky Mountain Interview
Conrad Johnson
Conrad Johnson, one of the centers of gravity in the Houston jazz scene, passed away on Sunday. I had only a few lessons with Prof and he kicked my butt, he must have been 80-something at the time.
More Prologue.
Twitter Theme
Prologue is a new WordPress theme that’s probably best described as a group Twitter, ideally for 3-15 people to let each other know what they’re up to. It has comments, permalinks, RSS feeds, Gravatars, XML-RPC, everything you’d expect. The front page shows the latest update from each person.
Different Approach to Tagging
Stay On Target
Nickel and Diming
Seth Godin: Nickel and diming. (As an aside, it drives me crazy that people like Seth Godin and John Moore are pouring countless hours into creating priceless content as sharecroppers on domains they don’t own. To clarify, I have no problem that they’re using Typepad, but for goodness sake put it on your own domain. When someone Google’s you the first hit shouldn’t be .typepad.com. Your name is the most valuable thing you have, and every day you put it off is more links to someplace you can never truly control.)
For Dummies Update
The Never Ending Story. “WordPress For Dummies remains the #1 book on blogging at Amazon.com — it’s been #1 almost since the week it was released in November, and has remained there ever since.”
More MySQL
Last week’s thread on the Sun/MySQL acquisition now includes a comment from Marten Mickos, MySQL’s CEO.
Utah WordPress Meetup
I’m going to be in Utah next week and I extended my trip to do a WordPress Meetup, please come by if you’re in the area.
SOCKS5 Proxy DNS Cache
Note to future self: If you’re behind a SOCKS5 proxy for DNS lookups, your machine will ignore the local HOSTS file, and you’ll need to make host/IP modifications on the machine you’re proxying through instead.
TechBlog Article
British Airways
British Airways has a new blog, OpenSkies, using WordPress. Neville Hobson blogs about it here.
Technorati’s Top 100
Crunchies Fashion
Someone reviewed the fashion of the attendees of the Crunchies, which we joked about but didn’t think would actually happen. I think the post says I should shave, but I get points for wearing a tie. (Thanks Glenda!) Update: If you’re on trunk be careful with the WYSIWYG editor, it just ate my post.
Three Gigabytes
A chicken in every pot, and three gigabytes of upload space for every blog on WordPress.com. I’m really excited about this, and it’s just the first step. 🙂
La Nacion Interview
When I was in Buenos Aires a few months ago I had the pleasure of chatting with Ariel Torres for a few hours, we had a great conversation. Parts of this have now made it into La Nacion as the article Matt Mullenweg, el chico Web. If you speak Spanish, it’s worth checking out. Hat tip: Mariano.