Podcast #2 is up, broadly about advertising and blogs. 2:30. The quality is still awful, I might still sound like a chipmunk if you play it in flash, but thanks for all the great suggestions on the post from yesterday, I’ll be trying them out over the next few days.
Category Archives: Asides
First Podcast
I’m diving into the wild and wooly world of podcasting, and here is my first “episode.” Expect much experimentation to follow.
Bayesian Noise Reduction
PHP5 Issues
Dreamhost upgrades their servers to PHP 5.2 (newer is better, right?) and most of their PHP5 customers break. WP 2.1 had a lot of workarounds in it just to run under 5.2. That’s stupid. I’m sure there is a perfectly rational reason why PHP core was “forced” to break existing scripts, but constantly shooting your users in the foot isn’t a good way for PHP to stay relevant. (I write this as someone whose entire company and livelihood is based on PHP.)
bbPress Desmond
bbPress 0.8 “Desmond” Released! bbPress is starting to pick up the things we found worked best in WordPress.
Better Voicemail
Callwave has a cool service which allows you to send your voicemail to them rather than the crappy service your cell company provides. You get an email with caller ID info whenever you get a voicemail and a link to listen to it. You can also check it from your phone, like normal voicemail. It’s a freemium model. I’m loving it. The setup is just typing in a weird string of digits into your cell phone.
106Miles
I’m speaking at the next 106 Miles on February 15th in Menlo Park. The question is “When is the right time for a startup to hire a product manager?”
Thunderbird Release?
What ever happened to Thunderbird 2? The nightly builds claim to be version 3 now.
New Blogger Importer
We now have an importer that works with the new Blogger, and Andy has a weird moustache thing going on.
High Resolution Mistakes
2.1 downloads
Version 2.1 of WordPress has been downloaded an average of 19,483 times a day since it was released. The increased traffic on the site as a result has put a strain of the single server it runs on, we’re adding more soon.
Solid State Laptops?
I’m in the market for a new laptop as my TX 690P (which I love) is getting old and beat-up from travel. Unless Apple comes out with something amazing this month, I have my eyes set on one of the new ultraportables with solid state flash drives, which means the laptop can be completely silent and fanless. However information on these gems seems sparse online, especially in English, and especially if you want to buy one. Anyone know how to pick one of these up in the US? Anyone have one yet?
Adium 1.0
I just upgraded to the new Adium after it reminded me that my version was 42 weeks old.
StorageTek Availability Suite
Etech Conference
For the first time in several years I don’t have a scheduling conflict with the Etech conference this year. I’ve always wanted to go, and it will be nice to enjoy a conference without any obligations of speaking.
Technorati Product Releases
Flip Ads
Condé Nast is launching a Myspace for teen girls and giving their users complete control of the ads. (And has already sold over $2mm worth.)
Chevy Nova
The story about the Chevy Nova not selling well in Mexico because its name meant “no go” is completely false.
New Servers
Barry is blogging some of our experiences with bringing online another DC. The search for another solid infrastructure partner has been very educational and made me appreciate how good LayeredTech actually is.
Digital Media Summit
I’m in Utah for the Polaris Digital Media Summit. Lot’s of interesting conversations with lots of interesting folks, unfortunately most of it is off the record. However the blog above is posting a bit about each session, assuming Mike will keep up with it. Deer Valley is beautiful, it makes me wish I wasn’t scared of snow.