Ev, founder of Blogger, moves on. Beautiful entry. Wish him the very best. Hat tip: Tantek (who got it from Dave).

Drew has finished up his excellent series, read them all. The Joel Test for Web Development, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, and the Conclusion.

Maybe I’m a bit too optimistic about noospheric homesteading, but I expect that the pressures of this space will eventually leave only two kinds of bloggers: the ones who get paid enough, and the ones who have to be here because their bliss won’t let them do anything else.

I just got this at Bloglines: “There is a problem with the database. Please try again later.” Uh oh. I wonder if they’re going to hit the same growing pains Technorati went through.

Well I finally got Trac up and running. Trac itself wasn’t so bad, there were just twenty things I had to set up before I could even get to that point. Once trac-admin stopped crashing things were a piece of cake. I’m following something similar to these instructions for managing multiple projects.

“This is now a no-win situation because someone made a huge error that could cost the election. This isn’t rocket science, it’s broadcasting.” Dvorak strikes again.

The miniBB authors are moving away from the GPL. This is what we use for our support forums. Perhaps now would be a good time to release my version.

Does Yahoo have a patent on search ads? Reading over it looks like it covers paid inclusion, not text-ads like Google has.

Kevin tries out Movable Type (again)

Also recommended for helping SpamAssassin do its thing: Pyzor, Razor, and DCC.

I hit some bumps setting the new SpamAssassin up but now that it’s running I’m amazed. I was getting to the point again where a few spams were getting through every day, and that number seems to have been going up, but since installing 3.0 I haven’t seen a single spam in my inbox. The Bayesian identification seems a lot faster and more accurate. Because of a procmail typo this morning about a dozen emails got lost, so if you think one of those may have been you please re-send.

Welcome to October. I said last month that big things were happening in September, and they did. What’s killing me is I can’t talk about them yet.

I am now a character in a Sims game. Update: Here’s the entire category, which includes pictures.

Top 10 Secrets They Don’t Want You to Know About the Debates, timely. Hat tip: Haughey.

How to survive writer’s block

Many congrats. Hat tip: Adam.

Open Letter to Steve Jobs by Aswath Rao.

Last week I went out to the H-Town blogs happy hour at Onion Creek, an excellent coffee place in the Heights. I met Elaine, Kathy, Ted, Cody, Lauren, and Kelly — all great folks. Here’s a photo of the ragtag crew.