Michael finishes the Kubrick theme for WordPress, goes beyond just a style. Be like Mike with your blog. Where are the screenshots? Just like other enviroments there seem to be a few style leaders in the WordPress ecosystem and you can clearly see their influence in a lot of blogs.
Apple’s Challenge
If I was Apple I wouldn’t be worried at all about Windows, I would be worried about the next generation of Linux desktop software. The main reason I’m considering a G5 for my next desktop purchase is that I want a powerful machine that Just Works when I plug stuff in and can still run all the open source tools like Subversion, rysync, PHP, MySQL, etc etc that I rely on. It’s also interesting that all the software I regard these days as truly essential isn’t desktop software, it’s server software. I can survive switching text editors or graphics programs or even operating systems, but if I had to use ASP and SQL Server instead of Perl/PHP/Python and MySQL I’m not sure what I would do. I can function without these things on my desktop, but having to access them remotely (if it’s pretty transparent) prohibits some pretty cool stuff and diminishes my productivity.
Windows and OS X are tools I use to get things done. Linux desktop software (X, KDE, Gnome, etc) is a hobby. If I could focus on getting work done instead of getting my wireless card to work I could consider as a serious and cheaper alternative to a OS X desktop. (No matter what I want one of those new Cinema displays though.)
To preemptively clarify, my comments do not at all apply to Linux in the server space, where it by far the most mature and capable platform out there and I would hardly consider anything else.
Creativity
New Blog for Cathy
I just set up a blog for Cathy.
Firefox Design
Firefox UI design mockups. That’s how Matthew Thomas did them for WordPress. ASCIIIIIIII.
Gallery: 7-31-2004
Auto-imported from old gallery:
Manchurian
Just saw the Manchurian Candidate and it was really excellent. The end got away from me though. Does anyone know what happened there?
PHP Missles
In a language war, don’t be so quick to push the button. A little Friday fun.
For Pay WordPress
I’ve had a surprising number of questions about the “free unlimited-user copy of WordPress” prize for the color scheme contest. To clarify, that was a joke. WordPress is Free. 🙂
Knight Rider
K.I.T.T. from Knight Rider on eBay. I used to watch this show every single day. Hat tip: Colin.
Contest Update
One day left in the contest, there have been some really great entries so far. There are going to be multiple winners of the smaller prizes and one grand prize winner, and you can win multiple times, so keep the entries coming.
MediaWiki
MediaWiki looks pretty amazing, and I think it will be replacing phpWiki for my personal use and for WordPress. There is a lot that can be learned from their extensive history and documentation of the development of the Mediawiki project. This is open source at its best.
On 1.3
I’m running the latest nightly build of WordPress 1.3 now. Living on the edge! Seems to be working well, and it’s a good stress-test of the system.
Rolling Along
Feed-O-Maticburner
Using Ping-o-Matic with FeedBurner, 3 methods, all easy. Lots of synergy there, both services abstracting details of a fragmented market.
RSS Search
I just realized that because the WordPress support forums has RSS for everything and Bloglines is indexing it Bloglines must have all 60 or 70 thousand posts from the support forums in its database. I wish there was some way we could tie into that search directly.
Two Steps to Salvation
This has got to be the worst error message with the worst instructions ever. I want to see the video (Barack Obama) but I’m afraid about what will happen to my computer if I fire up IE.
Meet the Press
Met with the charming Cathy Matusow from the Houston Press earlier today and we chatted for a while about blogs and blogging and blogbloginess. We’re going to meet again this Saturday to talk some more, and maybe even set her up a blog. Yesterday I talked with Farhad from Salon.com for a good while, but that chat was a lot more technical, things like comment spam, emergent communities, and business-oriented topics. Farhad asked some very challenging questions that I had lots of thoughts on but my replies were scattered, so I’m not sure if I communicated what I wanted to say.
Best site forward
Ethan asks Is Mozilla putting the best site forward? The further reading is interesting and candid as well. BTW, Firefox 1.0 is coming in September.
Zeldzilla
Mozilla 1.7 / 1.7.1 home page shows a picture of Zeldman.com in its screenshot.