People using Blogtimes, mostly the MT version. Blogtimes for WordPress uses the same filename.

Voting machine glitch during demo, Murphy’s law applies to elections as well. It sounds like Sequoia is trying to do the right thing. I can’t think of a single good reason not to have a hard paper copy of every vote. “Election officials say that putting printers on voting machines would create problems for poll workers if the printers break down or run out of paper, and the paper records will cause long poll lines with voters taking more time to check the record.” Oh no! People would be checking their votes! We don’t want that. I will personally donate to the paper fund if they’re really that worried they’re going to run out.

How to Tie a Tie, no reason.

Kevin switched back to WordPress after flirting with Textpattern.

Without discussing the actual politics of the site (please) Bushlies.com is the first use of WordPress to promote a bestselling book I’ve seen. Judging by the comment counts it gets some good traffic.

Building Your Home with WordPress, excellent read. Craig is looking for feedback.

Christopher Schmitt, CSS guru, has begun blogging and a live redesign of his site. (I love those!) He’s rolling with WordPress.

To remove trailing slashes from URIs: UPDATE `blogs` SET blog_uri = LEFT(blog_uri, (LENGTH(blog_uri) - 1) ) WHERE RIGHT( blog_uri, 1 ) = '/'; Rows affected: 328,561 in 92 seconds.

Version Control with Subversion, a free online book.

I’m not sure why, but my Technorati cosmos for photomatt.net has been blazing fast lately. It’s just the wordpress.org one that has been MIA for a while.

Okay, I’m on Multiply. Stop with the invites. :-p

Tantek and Eric presented a XFN poster at Hypertext and that’s really cool. 🙂 I had a look at the poster and it’s very sharp. It looks like it hints at something new on the way…

My bud Kelly just pointed me to these cool Powerbook bags. This looks like it could work. I want something very slim and form-fitting for my 12″ to basically protect it from scratches. Most of the time it’ll probably be inside my messenger bag, but I need to protect it from scratches inside of that. Any suggestions?

Just downloaded TortoiseSVN, which I hope is as good as its CVS cousin.

Just had a spam attack, about 90 comments over the course of two hours I was away from the computer. Not a single one is visible because every one was caught by my filter. How to delete them all? Comments Mass edit mode → Search for IP → Check all → Delete checked. Basically less than five clicks to delete 90 comments. The search could have keyed on any part of the name, email, or comment. It took longer to write this sentence than it took to delete two hours of spammers work. This isn’t a new 1.3 feature, this has been in WordPress for months.

Over at Signals vs. Noise (the other SVN) Jason asks about localization and I respond with how we did it in WordPress. I say “we” but the credit should really go to Ryan. In terms of professional translation services I can’t recommend anyone more than Linguistic Solutions. If you talk to Christopher Hurtado tell him I sent you and you may get a deal. We’ve known each other forever.

Sourceforge seems to have borked parts of the WordPress CVS repository, replacing files with files from other projects. Needless to say, this makes the CVS a little more bleeding edge than normal. Looking into this now. Might be a good opportunity to move this last critical bit off Sourceforge and switch to Subversion.

Weird problem: my iPod shows that it’s charging and it shows up as connected (with full info) in the System Profiler but it doesn’t mount, it doesn’t show up on the desktop or in iTunes. I’ve tried two Firewire cables and a USB cable, so I’m sure it’s not that. If I had to guess I’d say it started after the 10.3.5 update, but I’m not really sure.

The Craptastic Adventures of SES San Jose 2004, write HTML like it’s 1997.