A little more Latin, this time Peueblo Nuevo from the Buena Vista Social Club, a delightfully chill song to slow down for a few moments and enjoy.
Apple Commercial Archive
Andrew has made a Bittorent of every Apple commercial ever, or at least the ones he could find.
Niall at Technorati
Niall Kennedy is joining Technorati. Looking forward to seeing him in SOMA more.
MT Email Spamming
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.
It’s Not RSS
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.)
Semantic Weighted Lists
Joe Clark points out the bad markup in Technorati’s weighted tag list (I sometimes call them heat maps).
Kombi Journey
Los Mariachis
Blake Ross
Blake Ross, who is on the cover of Wired next month, a new WordPress blog. Hat tip: Alvin W..
The Schwag Set
Meetup Aftermath
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.
San Francisco Meetup
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.
Scoble on WordPress
Robert Scoble’s new linkblog is now running on WordPress. “Uploading is TONS faster now!” Glad to be of assistance.
Dallas Meetup
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.
Todo Lists
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.
Louisiana WordPresser
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.”
Firefox Spell Checker
SpellBound, a spelling checker for Firefox. Allows you to spell check any text input field.
Harley WordPress
I just heard that Harley Davidson is going to be using WordPress internally. Groovy!
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Baby Sign Language
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!