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

Phil Ringnalda is back! Oh, and read what he wrote about centralized subscription service. The consensus seems to be forming around the feed: faux protocol, with the MIME camp strangely silent.

Brian Alvey is looking for blog designers and programmers, presumably to work on his Weblogs Incorporated Network. Brian is a great guy, so if you can work with him you should. (Note: This isn’t a WordPress job, they use a custom Microsoft ASP/SQL engine.)

Dennis Yang, the mySimon guy at CNET, has switched to WordPress.

The Jotspot folks have a new blog, running WordPress. I got to meet Joe and Graham (co-founders of Jotspot, and Excite back in the day) on Tuesday and it was quite inspiring. Graham Spencer also has his own WP blog. I tried to check out Joe Kraus’s blog as well but it seems to be down with a strange Squid error.

The Risks of Closed Source

By the way, I’ve deactivated all of the spam plugins I was using and I’m relying on just the new measures built-in to WordPress 1.5. So far it’s been going very well.

Photos from the blogger lunch today. Please add notes with people’s names!

Announcing the WordPress Plugin Repository, since the announcement I’ve been adding dozens of new plugins and developers. This is Open Source development and collaboration at its best.

Well the Shuffle and mini look pretty rocking, and both seem absolutely something I’d want to by. The Shuffle fits my listening habits pretty well and the mini looks like it could make a pretty swank gateway server for my living room. (I have a big beige box running Gentoo in there now.) Hook up two big external drives and you’re good to go. In other news, the official Apple WordPress Student blog has been pretty busy lately. When the story about it first broke there wasn’t a whole lot of content up there, but now it has filled out nicely.