93,548 pings yesterday… so close! I know you guys can do better than that. The assignment for the day is to tell at least two people on your blogroll about Pingomatic.
Microsoft Expression
Microsoft Expression, a free vector image tool for Macs and PCs. Hat tip: Cheryl Wise.
photojunkie
Rannie is in the middle of his Blogger Week pictures and today I make an appearance. Thanks Rannie. 🙂
XML Content Sink
“The XML content sink is non-incremental, so, all XML documents start laying out only after the entire content model has been constructed.” That includes XHTML documents sent with application/xhtml+xml. You just can’t win. Hat tip: Henri Sivonen.
No Recording
Well it looks like I won’t be recording with the Calvin Owens Blues Orchestra in two weeks. The person I was replacing in the band showed up to the rehearsal and it turns out there had been a misunderstanding with he band leader. I’m still going to be joining the band in a few weeks, but I won’t be on their upcoming CD.
Sterling Party
Bruce Sterling on his post-SxSW part. I was there, but now feel like I missed a lot. Hat tip: Joe Clark.
Seattle Meetup Location
Okay so it looks like the best place in terms of size, price, and location of those suggested is The Pike Pub & Brewery which sounds like a fun, laid-back place perfect for a meetup. Thanks to Scott and Jane for suggesting it. Still going to meet at 1 PM. It looks like there are going to be some great people attending, so it should be a lot of fun. Oh, and the tag for today is “wordpressmeetup“. 🙂
Adam Trachtenberg
Stewart Ugelow writes in that “Adam Trachtenberg, eBay’s technical evangelist and author of O’Reilly’s
“Upgrading to PHP 5”, has switched to WordPress.”
Geek Lunches Dangerous
Scoble got in trouble for the very long geek lunch/meetup last Saturday in Seattle. He also relates a funny story from the afternoon. We had about 15 people come and go during the meetup and it was a lot of fun — thanks to all who came out.
Pulse of Freedom
“The Pulse of Freedom is a site published by the protesters at Martyrs’ Square, Beirut, from a tent city.” This is an inspiring story: “A group of Web masters, graphic design artists, writers, and photographers stayed up all night for several nights in a row putting the Web site together.” They chose WordPress. “As far as I’m aware this is the first Web site of its kind anywhere in the world. The leaders of a democratic revolution are openly blogging about their experience from the center of the action.” Echoditto writes about their part in Blogging from Beirut. “I am writing this post from a tent city in the Martyrs’ Square in central Beirut, a place which is filled with the energy and excitement of a burgeoning democratic movement.” Hat tip: Mike Carvalho via email.
Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where we gather.
John Perry Barlow’s classic A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace.
The CEO of Automattic worked with the co-founder of WordPress directly, mediated by the head of the WordPress Foundation. Matt Mullenweg said the meetings were very productive.
As inside-baseball WordPress-focused April Fools go, this one is pretty funny: WordPress to be bundled in Jetpack with mission to power 50% of the web.
Kemah Boardwalk Jazz Festival 2002 Schedule
So far I’ve only seen this in print form, and when they put it online last year it was in the form of a inaccessible, unsearchable image, so as my public service for the day I’ve written out the schedule for the upcoming Kemah Boardwalk Jazz Festival, and added links to the artists where I could find them. I’d like to expand this with personnel of each group, so if you know who’s in what band let me know in a comment or email.
5th Annual Kemah Boardwalk Jazz Festival
September 26–29, 2002
Sponsor: Kemah Boardwalk
Cosponsors: University of Houston-Downtown, Houston Professional Musicians
Association, Local 65-699, H&H Music Company
Founder and Festival Director: Robert Wilson, UH Downtown Arts and
Humanities Falculty. Member and Director, UHD Civic Music Program
Thursday, 9-26
| 6:00-6:50 | McGinty Brothers Quintet |
| 7:10-8:00 | Steve Allison and Resolution |
| 8:20-9:10 | Eddie Lewis and Living Rhythms |
Friday, 9-27
| 6:00-6:50 | Woody Witt Quartet |
| 7:10-8:00 | Tribute Quartet |
| 8:30-9:30 | Trumpet Great Bobby Shew with HPMA Big Band |
| 10:00-11:00 | Pamela York Trio |
Saturday, 9-28
| 12:00-12:50 | Salsa Maria |
| 1:10-2:00 | Tony Campise |
| 2:20-3:10 | Ron Wilkins |
| 3:30-4:20 | Carol Morgan |
| 4:40-5:30 | Carlos Garnett/Will Cruz Latin Jazztet |
| 5:50-6:40 | Norma Zenteno Latin Jazz Band |
| 6:45-7:00 | Presentation of the Kemah Boardwalk Jazz Achievement Award |
| 7:10-8:00 | Sam Jackson Jazz Orchestra |
| 8:30-9:30 | Saxophone Great Ernie Watts with the Pamela York Trio |
| 10:00-11:00 | Warren Sneed |
Sunday, 9-29
| 1:00-1:50 | Young Sounds of Houston Teen Jazz Orchestra |
| 2:10-3:00 | Ethan Atkinson Group |
| 3:20-4:10 | UHD Civic Jazz Orchestra with Trombone Great Ron Wilkins |
| 4:30-5:20 | Sax No End |
| 5:40-6:30 | Mike Wheeler |
| 7:00-8:00 | The Calvin Owens Blues Orchestra |
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Two big releases today: WordPress 4.2 with lots of interface improvements and emoji support, and the 3.5 release of Jetpack with a new menu editor.
Sam Altman of YCombinator wrote a great post on the occasion of his thirtieth birthday, The days are long but the decades are short. There’s a lot of subtlety and nuance in each point, so even if you’ve read it already it’s worth another pass.
The Verge: Slot machines perfected addictive gaming. Now, tech wants their tricks. Includes information from one of my favorite authors Nir Eyal, who also spoke at WordCamp San Francisco a few years ago.
Civicspace Labs
The new Civicspace Labs site is up, it’s a lot easier now to tell what in the world they actually do. Nice redesign!
Battlestar Galactica Podcasts
Battlestar Galactica is doing commentary podcasts, from the SciFi channel.