The MT sites I host have been getting hammered with this email spamming flaw that allows arbitrary emails to be sent out from any MT installation. Fortunately I can block it (though bluntly) through mod_security. If you run MT, please delete the comments script until a fix is out. Will link to more information as it’s available. Update: More at TextDrive. Update: Fix available.

New formats called RSS that don’t work with anything else, specifically referring (I assume) to the “RSS 1.1” effort. (Where RSS stands for RDF Site Summary.) The name of RDF Site Summary is a mistake in the first place, they should take this new development effort as a chance to correct it. (Also, publishers are getting tired of supporting the format du jour. Maybe it’s “easy” for aggregators to support the latest permutation, but the last thing I want to do is bloat WordPress with support for Yet Another syndication format. Four is enough.)

Joe Clark points out the bad markup in Technorati’s weighted tag list (I sometimes call them heat maps).

The story of a much-loved VW Kombi

Los Mariachis, on of my favorite tracks from Mingus on ¡Que Viva Mingus!

Blake Ross, who is on the cover of Wired next month, a new WordPress blog. Hat tip: Alvin W..

Om on the “Silicon Valley 100” — The Schwag Set

Thanks to everyone who came out on such short notice. It was great seeing Chris Messina, Scott Beale, Marc Weidenbaum, Om Malik, Nicole Lee, Glenda B, Ryan King, Craig Cook.

So the plan is today Saturday at 2 PM at the Chaat Cafe on 3rd and Folsom we’ll have a WordPress late lunch for all the people in the area who are interested in the latest and greatest in weblog software. It’s not a meetup proper but should be fun nonetheless.

Robert Scoble’s new linkblog is now running on WordPress. “Uploading is TONS faster now!” Glad to be of assistance.

Ryan is doing the WP meetup in Dallas tomorrow. I’ve been busy at work and forgot that was this weekend, I think we’re too late to do the official Meetup thing but I’d be willing to meet some San Francisco WordPress people for coffee tomorrow afternoon.

I was really impressed with Ta-da list, the latest from 37signals, enough even to put all my todos into it. I started writing this post because I couldn’t get to my todos because of a problem with their server, and I was going to say how hosting your own is sometimes best, but they seemed to have fixed the problem already. Whew, now that I know what I need to do again, I better get to it.

Web log Meetup group searches for members.
“I’d rather blog than talk on the phone,” he said. “I’ll blog four or five entries a weekend. I’ll just sit there watching movies or listening to music and spend about 10 hours (blogging). Just whenever the mood strikes me.”

SpellBound, a spelling checker for Firefox. Allows you to spell check any text input field.

I just heard that Harley Davidson is going to be using WordPress internally. Groovy!

Eric Meyer’s 13-month baby knows thirty words in sign language, I saw Meet the Fockers earlier tonight and thought that part of the movie was just made up. Apparently not!

RSS 0.93 explicitly stated multiple enclosures were allowed