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Gallery: 12-6-2005
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German Focus
So the next trip to Europe I’ll have to catch the Netherlands and Germany, I’ve met some fantastic WordPress users (and future users) from both. There is someone on stage from a German media organization talking about how they’ve begun emphasizing blogs much more in their publication, Focus. After browsing a bit I noticed that blogs.focus.msn.de (yes that’s MSN) is all WordPress blogs — cool! What’s interesting about being Open Source is that the software turns up places you would never suspect or know about.
Gallery: 12-5-2005
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Akismet in Java
Akismet Java API, by David Czarnecki (the author of the excellent Blojsom). So cool!
Gallery: 12-4-2005
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Yahoo on WordPress
Stephen Steele (is that a real name?) just wrote in that the new Yahoo Mail updates blog is on WordPress. As far as I know this is the first official Yahoo blog on WP I’ve seen. What makes it really interesting is it’s the first time I’ve seen third-party software (like WordPress) on the yahoo.com domain. You’ll notice every time they’ve done blogs before it’s been on a different domain like yahoo.net or ysearchblog.com, I imagine because of the incredibly strict security requirements anything with access to Yahoo.com cookies must meet. This is very exciting news. 🙂
Landed
Paris has the most confusing airport, although I suppose any airport is confusing if you don’t speak the language. Franck was right. I ended up chickening out and taking a taxi, and I’m not checked in and settled. First order of business: find an adapter for these weird plugs. The weather seems to have cleared up so I’m going to venture out and explore a bit.
Gallery: 12-3-2005
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French Phrases
After reading about Andy’s adventures I decided I better Google up a French phrasebook for study on the flight. The first hit looks like it would get me in to a little more trouble than I’m looking for. 🙂
En Route
About to board the plane to Paris for the Les Blogs conference, where I will be representing open source and WP from the audience side. I’m looking forward to exploring Paris and meeting some French WordPress users. I’m surprised that Dot Clear isn’t represented at the conference, as it seems to be one of the more significant blogging tools over there. There is no WP meetup planned but I’m there through Wednesday so if you’re interested in something drop me a note.
Akismet Development
Akismet now has API documentation and not one but two Python implementations. The WordPress plugin has also been updated to respond to the most common feedback and a few minor bugfixes. Akismet has caught 465,769 spams since it started (81% of all comments) and is protecting over 35k unique blogs.
Roles and Capabilities
What’s New in 2.0: Roles and Capabilities. I’m using the new bookmarklet to post this, it rocks.
Sister Moon
My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun, my hunger for her explains everything I’ve done. Herbie Hancock and Sting.
GE.tv
I was interviewed a while back “from inside the bubble” by Geek Entertainment TV. Some others: the Zimbra guy, the supr.c.ilio.us folks, flockstar Andy Smith. This is all part of the Bubble 2.0 Snark Group, who are “keeping it real.” *cough*
DTD Magic
Worth 200 Million
Are These People Really Worth $200 Million? What year was this written in? Anyone remember theglobe.com? 🙂
Geekstar
My business card apparently got me in this geekstar list. Geekstar is undefined in the urban dictionary.
In San Diego
I’m heading down to San Diego / La Jolla for the day to install some load balancers for WordPress.com and also to buy “Mr Fancy CTO” Jason a celebratory taco for their Joyent thing. If you’re in the area drop me a note. Update: La Jolla is beautiful, but servers happen. Trying to do things over a serial console is so 1988. (As Jason said.)
2.0 Bingo
Web 2.0 bingo, play it on your next conference call.