I’m going to be in Dallas this weekend for a wedding, any suggestions for things to do when I’m in town, besides avoiding melting from the TX heat?

Jason on doing what you love and loving what you do. I often disagree with Calacanis, but when he’s right he’s spot on.

At Gnomedex John Furrier interviewed me and the results are now online, John was a lot of fun to chat with. I hope we do it again sometime. PodTech.net is one of my favorite podcast sites.

You can now syndicate feeds into your Yahoo 360 page. They list WordPress as a possible source.

You can now sign up to be notified about WordPress.com. Tell your friends! First come, first serve. Thanks again to Ric Johnson for releasing the domain to us.

Weblog Wannabe is switching to WordPress. The site has won several Bloggies, usually for design.

The famous Mosaic jazz label has some amazing photography for sale though it seems a bit pricey. They do have some smaller Francis Wolff prints for $75 though.

More love from Apple.com: “IMHO WordPress is the best single user blogging system available (did I mention its free?) […] I came accross this really simple tutorial on how to use WordPress as a podcasting engine … take a look at it. What is so amazing is how easy it really is! Before you know it, you’ll have thousands of listeners, be listed in the iTunes 4.9 Podcasting Directory, and be a media darling.” We’re turning the media darling thing into a plugin in 1.6. Hat tip: Pete Quily.

Has anyone used any of EMIC’s cluster systems? I hate it when websites make you contact them to get any useful information. Defeats the purpose of the web.

WordPress Ryan is coming to town so let’s show him a good time with a WP meetup. I’ll be hosting an after-party at my place.

Greasemonkey has gotten a bit of bad hype lately, but it’s still incredibly useful and relevant. Check out this user script that allows you to sort table rows in WordPress using Greasemonkey. BTW, a better sorting algo should be able to deal with no leading zeroes on rows.

Just a service announcement: for those of you on the Turing server the memory has been upgraded so it should be more stable now.

Speaking of Ecosystems, on Drupal buying Dell boxes.

The day after the Apple news comes TUAW asking WordPress: Most Mac-like Blogging Tool?. The comments are interesting too, someone points out another Apple weblog using WordPress that I had never heard about before.

The new Web Standards DOM Scripting Task Force is using WordPress for their site.

Drew from the Dawn & Drew Show wrote in: “hi matt, i just wanted to drop you a line letting you know how much i enjoy using wordpress. i went from blogger to movabletype to wordpress and i’m digging it very much. i’m half of the dawn and drew podcast and wasn’t sure if you know about podcasting or not, but all of adam curry’s podshow affiliates are using wordpress across the network. i’m in the process of redoing adam’s site in wordpress now.”

MIT has a new WordPress blog. Hat tip: Chetan.