Point, counterpoint and smackdown. Hat tip: Jeremy.

Here is the simple script I use to upgrade all the WordPress sites I run on a single server in one fell swoop. Each site is a Subversion checkout of the WordPress trunk so getting the latest changes and merging them with my version is a simple command, however remembering to do each site was a pain. It also helped me figure out exactly how many WordPress installation I’m responsible for upgrading. (Twenty-seven.) Just fill out the array with the site roots of each install (use locate wp-login.php to find them) and run the script on the command like php upgrade-sites.php. I also like to put the time command in front to see how long things take.

Wordlog, an excellent WordPress news site that’s almost a year old, still isn’t in Google. Seems to work in every other search engine in the world.

How to disable GreaseMonkey, now if only Google would let us disable Autolink.

The public choice economics of Star Wars: A Straussian reading. Excellent!

I just got home from seeing Star Wars Episode III, and it was a fantastic movie. Totally worth staying up to 4 AM for. Not just a great Star Wars movie, but a Good Movie independent of anything else out there. Then again I’m a total sucker for epic space sci-fi and cheeseball storylines, but go see it and decide for yourself. I’ll probably catch it once or twice more this weekend.

Just got this email, “I am the artist manager for Bob Ricci, famous parody artist. Our site www.BobRicci.com (http://community.bobricci.com) caters to more than 350,000 hits a day from fans worldwide. I wanted to let you know that in our years of being online and having to support such a large amount of global traffic WordPress.org is the only software we have found that is able to withstand the amount of traffic and offer us a community/news service in the online marketplace.” Sweet!

Google Evite and look at the second hit. It’s about time for another party, we’re about to hit half a million downloads since we started tracking.

I’m very much looking forward to Gnomedex in a few weeks and I noticed today that my bio is up on the speaker page. It says I’ll share “Why style is just as important as substance.” I know they can’t be talking about my fashion sense, so I’ll take the safe route and stick to stylesheets.

In the interest of expanding the Photo Matt audience we’ve commissioned a team of expert translators to create Foto Mateo. 😉 Update: To clarify, this is a joke. It just is a Google translate proxy of this site. Read the comments for more. Thanks for everyone who emailed in that it was, in fact, a very bad translation.

I just got a spam/phishing email that looks exactly like a Windows Update notification, and every link in the email is to a real Microsoft site, save one. The download link, which I must “Install now to maintain the security of your computer from these vulnerabilities, the most serious of which could allow an attacker to run code on your computer,” goes to a file named Windows-KB835935-SP2-ENU.exe on the domain windowsupdatenow.net. I’m sure the exe will do awful things to whoever falls for this. I hope Microsoft/Scoble get their lawyers on whoever is behind this, I’ll admit until I noticed the download link domain the email seemed totally legit.

Blogging Without Borders just hit Version 2.0, and continues to fight censorship around the world. One of the best uses of Drupal I’ve seen, and the first I know in terms of “citizen media” which is starting to get hype these days around things like Bayosphere.

Scoble hinted at the story Om just broke, that Newsgator will be buying FeedDemon. Should be interesting.

I’m the #1 hit for Dave Matthews new CD, and the comments keep coming in. Also, Boing Boing drives a noticeable amount of traffic, which is unusual.

The Ping-O-Matic Matrix display, which I use for spotting spam. I was always a big Matrix fan. 🙂

Test the new Mountain Dew. Hat tip: Forever Geek.

“I’m going to keep updating the site via a PDA and an Iridium satellite phone (using a tweaked version of WordPress that we’ll be releasing as open source once I’m back in June).”

So blo.gs has been sold and there are no details as to who it’s going to (or for how much), which is odd. As a user I feel sort of blinded by oncoming headlights, but hopefully more information will be available shortly. There were 12,207 users when I first got the announcement, the number seems to be going down. I hope the new owner is cool. Update: I heard the new owner is cool.