Comment Spam Kills Sites
The Daily Whim asserts that MT Plus Comment Spam Equals Dead Site. Pretty scary stuff.
Planned Anarchy
No street signs. No crosswalks. No accidents. A fantastic Wired article about how removing the artificial safety nets we set up for ourself actually makes us safer. The illusion of safety is a very dangerous thing. This is totally applicable to software design too. If you put up a big notice saying “Don’t do this” people won’t read it, you have to design the interaction to encourage people in the right direction.
Venture Capital
Blogomoxie
Blogomania teams up with Blogmoxie, interesting vertical.
More on SxSW
I am a confirmed speaker for South by Southwest (SxSW) 2005.
Sherlock Holmes Recordings
The Sherlock Holmes society has a great archive of old radio performances available for free download. Fantastic! I used to have a few tapes of these (maybe 4) and I would listen to one every single night for a long time. Very grateful hat tip: Ben Hammersley.
New Hivelogic
Is it? Could it be? It looks like the new Hivelogic is running on WordPress. That’s too cool.
MyVirtualBand
My Virtual Band, cool idea and using WordPress.
No WinFS
WinFS is the Duke Nukem Forever of filesystems. Too bad, might have actually been a compelling reason to upgrade to Longhorn.
Gallery: 12-11-2004
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Snow
It’s snowing! ’Tis the season. (My site, not San Francisco.)
SxSW Brochure
If you check out the SxSW Interactive brochure that they’re mailing to people it has a picture from my photolog on the fourth page. (They also use it on this page.) Groovy. 🙂 This year’s SxSW is going to rock, by the way.
Tortoise SVN
I just donated to Tortoise SVN. What an excellent project—I use it every day. Highly recommended for anyone working with Subversion on Windows.
TextMate PHP Completion
PHP command completion for TextMate, tres cool. Maybe I can do more coding on the Mac now.
San Francisco Jobs
I seem to be hearing a lot about people hiring in the SF area. If you’re interested leave a comment with your name and what you’re good at.
Deep Voodoo
The Deep Voodoo of regular expressions. I feel that way too sometimes.
Moreover Pings
Spelling Checker
Gravatar Blog
The Globally Recognized Avatar blog is using WordPress. The idea is pretty cool. Hat tip: Mathias.