I just took a job in exchange for pink chocolate chip cookies. Did anyone else miss the boom years? Just kidding of course, for Christine I would do it even for Macadamia nut.
Hi-tech Church
Scoble visits an amazingly high tech church.
Springfield Castle with Polldaddy
Visited the Polldaddy meetup in Ireland which was held at Springfield Castle, south near Cork. Includes a close encounter with some deer, peacocks, some karting, and a lovely dinner with Automatticians.
XFN Graph
XFN Graph is a tool that you give a URL and it then spiders all the XFN relationships and shows them in a neat graph/map.
WordPress Lessons
WordPress Lessons on the Codex are looking good, in fact the entire Codex is becoming a fantastic documentation resource. Kudos to Lorelle for kicking these off.
PingOMatic
Pop the champagne! Ping-o-Matic has broken a million pings in the two weeks or so that we’ve been counting. Keep the pings coming. 🙂
Revisiting Moral Hazard
Revisiting Moral Hazard, by Bob McTeer. (Whom I’ve met.)
Drupal 4.6
Drupal 4.6.0 is out and has some very cool new features, not the least of which is it’s joining the generation of new publishing tools that ping Ping-O-Matic by default. 🙂 Congrats to the Drupal team on the release.
Fun read by J.D. Andre: What Calvin and Hobbes taught me about mindfulness. I’ve been practicing daily with the Calm app.
Jane Doze & CURTAINS
One of my favorite DJ groups the Jane Doze, they have a new original song called Lights Go Down:
https://soundcloud.com/thejanedoze/the-jane-doze-ft-curtains-lights-go-down
It’s cool to hear and also on iTunes and Spotify. I great test song for the headphones I talked about yesterday. 🙂
As a good follow-up to the podcast with Tim the other week, I did a podcast with Matt Medeiros of the Matt Report.
Basquiat exhibit, Snow in Paris
Went to Basquiat exhibit, wandering around Paris in the snow, lunch with Elliot, Social Media Club, Le Web pre-party, some tripe.
Speaking of color masculinity, here’s Kanye on creativity, society, and color from his 2008 FADER interview:
I feel like all the words are in you, you’re just blocking yourself, you’re blocking your creativity. Society has put up so many boundaries, so many limitations on what’s right and wrong that it’s almost impossible to get a pure thought out. It’s like a little kid, a little boy, looking at colors, and no one told him what colors are good, before somebody tells you you shouldn’t like pink because that’s for girls, or you’d instantly become a gay two-year-old. Why would anyone pick blue over pink? Pink is obviously a better color. Everyone’s born confident, and everything’s taken away from you. So many people try to put their personality on someone else.
Hotel Costes, Guy Savoy, George V
Drinks at Hotel Costes, a fantastic Le Web dinner at Guy Savoy’s restaurant including some peaks behind the scenes and a tour of the kitchen, and closing out the night with some cognac at George V. A lovely night.
On Packing
Luckily most of my clothes look the same when wrinkled.
Panels Finished
My last panel was yesterday at 5 PM so now I’m taking as much time as I can to catch the panels that are left and learn a few things. Speaking was more stressful than I expected but most of the feedback was good. I still need to check out the web feedback though, as people are probably more candid online than when they’re shaking your hand.
Inline Editing
In our blog session Jay Allen described his vision for inline editing of weblogs, it looks like Owen is taking the first steps though I’m not sure why he’s doing it as a theme and not a plugin.
Spammer Compliments WordPress
A spammer, or a former one, compliments WordPress in this interview about 5 minutes in. It’s an interesting listen regardless. Hat tip: Praneet Kandula via email.
More Inline Editing
Gregory has a plugin that allows the sort of inline-editing we’ve been talking about the past few days.
Usable Security
Usable Security is a new blog about—you guessed it—the intersection of usability and security. This comes up every few weeks since I improved the error messages on the WordPress login (and bbPress) to specify which part of the login was mistaken, the username or the password. Security folks see this as a problem because you’re revealing more information but I see making the error message more generic as premature security optimization. Plenty of systems where login names are public or easily discoverable, such as Yahoo, Gmail, Hotmail, most email systems, and so forth, seem to be doing just fine.