Keith has some troubles upgrading and talks about new features.

iTunes for movies?

We ♥ Laura. Parents will always be there. Fantastic picture.

Blog Torrent makes Bittorrent easy to integrate with blogs and WordPress integration is being worked on.

HOWTO migrate from Blosxom to WordPress. Uses the MT export format, which means things like hierarchical categories don’t transfer over. Hat tip: D’Ancy Norman.

Put your site in the new mozilla.org header using the magic of CSS3.

If you’re having a rough day (like I am) this should cheer you right up: Steve Ballmer Sells Windows 1.0 video. Big hat tip: Michael.

I think this post is overly negative but he brings up a good point about existing MT Perl plugins not working on dynamic pages (the #1 feature in 3.1). I can’t think of any possible way around this though, except rewriting the plugins. Perhaps the Smarty handler could pass unrecognized tags through a Perl shell script and grab the output.

The new Mozilla.org design looks great. If you reload they show different web pages in the screenshot. I wonder how you can get on that screenshot list? 🙂

“We are “embittered generals”, and we are a threat for the W3C and the people working for the W3C. We are trashing years of W3C evangelism for our own glory. We are also accused of playing, unconsciously, for Microsoft.” Interesting read for anyone concerned about where the web is going next. I’ve been called many things before, but never “dangerous.”

On Michael’s recommendation and a few other favorable reports I looped by the Apple store today and picked up an iCurve and Apple bluetooth wireless keyboard. So far I’m loving the iCurve and getting used to the keyboard. I’m doing an unusual amount of typing these days so I should be able to give the keyboard a good test. Contrary to popular reports, the keyboard does have more than one button.

Movable Type 3.1 Launched, features dynamic pages, subcategories, and post scheduling. Three months ago: WordPress 1.2 launched, featuring dynamic pages, subcategories, and post scheduling. 😉 Hat tip: Weblog Tools Collection.

Mark Cuban on HDTV, DVD, Hard Drives and the future. Great read, I didn’t know that the HD content they film is higher quality than what they broadcast. I’ve gotten the full HD experience once at a friend’s house who had one of those giant 6 foot TVs and it was amazing, we watched golf and the nature channel or something. The junk they show on the TVs at the stores does not do HD justice at all. Cuban also thinks HD is the answer to piracy, contrast to this interview with Jack Valentini on Engadget.

Brian Alvey and a Coke joke. I groaned but loved it.

Om Malik on Broadband: Phone companies scamming millions from consumers. I have T-Mobile and paid $24 this month on top of a service plan that’s $50. To their credit only two of the charges look very shady and I still think that’s a bargain considering I used over 2000 minutes. (Even though Om’s blog has a trackback link, I can’t see how to send him a trackback. Is it a secret?)

As much as I like the people doing it I hope sIFR Flash text replacement doesn’t take off. It slows my browser to a crawl and is used far too much in situations where images and CSS image replacement could be used. (Also looks funny with Adblock but that’s nobody’s fault.

This Ask MetaFilter thread on blogware gives WordPress surprisingly little love. There’s not much substantive there, but it’s interesting to see how a subset of the MF audience reacted to the question. (Metafilter registration is still closed, so if you want to add to that thread you can’t.)

Between the Lines, the ZDnet WordPress blog, is the single biggest blog referrer to wordpress.org. This is your friendly reminder that it’s the end of the month so check out all your stats. (And pay your bills!) Another tidbit: 55% of wordpress.org’s visitors use non-IE browsers. This is definitely a trend.