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.
No Can Alvey
Brian Alvey and a Coke joke. I groaned but loved it.
Om Malik on Scamming
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?)
Flash Text
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.
Ask MetaFilter
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
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.
Hicks on Textpattern
Jon Hicks looks at Textpattern 2 months on. Personally I dig Textpattern quite a bit though some of its limitations frustrate me. If TxP was released earlier (and licensed differently) WordPress might not exist today…
Old Versions
Carthik finds the Old Versions of WordPress. WordPress.org is full of hidden gardens like that, it’s interesting to see people come across them and link them. Now I just need to get the site moved over to my new CMS.
Plageurism
Weblog Tools Collection — Plageurism in blogging, now we just need “spellchecking in blogging.” Good article nonetheless. (Anyone who copies and pastes it into my comments doesn’t get a cookie.)
Rated Arrrrr
Blimey! Just a few days up and Jonas has already stolen Dougal’s WordPress filter. Piracy on the Open Source seas (where it’s all legal).
Stopundesign
I’m really enjoying Doug’s Bleached un-design. I’m totally going to crib his proportions for a design I’m working on. As Dinah recently noted, it’s an inspiring site to dig through.
Lee Wilkins
Lee Wilkins has switched from MT (which he bought) and is now blogging with WordPress. He’s been doing a few neat audio and video posts using some different services.
Slackers
How to be a successful blogger. Hat tip: Phil.
Hello Rajesh
To Rajesh Kumar who has been sending me emails about WordPress: I have replied several times, but my replies always immediately bounce back with this error: 500 Internal Server Error: initialization failed.
Hero
Hero binary review: 1. Go see this movie.
MX900 on OS X
I could not be happier, I finally got my MX900 bluetooth mouse working correctly on Mac OS X. To clarify, it always worked but I had 5 buttons that were just there for decoration, and I really missed the back and forward buttons. The magic application that made my day? Gamepad Companion. I tried a couple of others, including the awful Logitech software, and nothing even came close to working. For future reference here are the button assignments on the mouse as shown in the interface:
- Left button
- Right button
- Wheel button (press down on wheel)
- Side back arrow button
- Side front arrow button
- Switch window button (below wheel)
- Up scroll (above wheel)
- Down scroll (below wheel)
The only thing that would make it perfect is if I could make the wheel button a double-click.
Commercial Strikes Back
If “Empire Strikes Back” came out today… (This drives me crazy.)
Ten Subversion Tips
The Top Ten Subversion Tips for CVS Users. Hat tip: (fuzzy head) Jonas.
Back
Just needed a few days off. Feeling a lot better now. 🙂
Yellow Taxi
“Late last night I heard the screen door sway, and a big yellow taxi took my girl away.” Taking a break.