The part of this essay not about deliberately invalidating every page on your site is good.
Smarty
Smarty 2.6.3 is available, the new cache filename stuff is nice.
Pursuance
This is too beautiful not to share. Pursuance, the third movement of the Love Supreme, as performed by the Branford Marsalis quartet. When I first heard he was doing this, I thought there was no way he could do justice to the original. I have also heard a recording of him attempting Love Supreme from the early nineties and it wasn’t up to snuff. This recording, however, is amazingly intense.
WRT54GS
So I’ve tapped into Linux on my WRT54GS using the Sveasoft firmware, and it’s pretty sweet being able to SSH into your router. Should be very useful when I’m on the road as well. Local DNS cache is running great. Security stuff seems solid. Finally, Wonder Shaper is keeping my roommate’s games from bothering me. 😉
Putting Linux on the Desktop
Red Hat goes after the corporate desktop. The key is standardized hardware in corporate enviroments. Windows is excellent at working with any dang thing you plug into it, or the dang thing coming with a CD with Windows drivers.
Microsoft Lost the API War
Make HTML sing, something I work toward every day.
Augusto
On Principle
37 Signals takes a stand and turns down a big client.
Flux
This font is gorgeous. Ooooo I want it.
MT Pricing
Announcing Pricing & Licensing Changes to Movable Type, looks like they’ve hit a good balance.
WP Hackers
WordPress Hackers mailing list, for the technically inclined.
MetaFriend
2 Years Old
I noticed that PhotoMatt.net turned 2 years old the other day. Maybe when I get a spare moment I can finish up the draft post I started last year when the site turned one.
Feeds
Okay already! Just the asides category and every category but asides. This sort of thing is really easy with a dynamic system.
Robozilla
Robozilla, the DMOZ link checker.
Scavenger Hunt
Nick is doing a scavenger hunt in return for Gmail invites. I’ve got a few extra invites now too. Interesting offers considered. I’ll throw in a free copy of WordPress. UPDATE: If you just email asking for an invite, you will be immediately deleted. Leave a comment with your interesting offer.
Interview
On Sax, Love, and WordPress. An interview. Read and (hopefully) enjoy.
Wikipedia Blocked in China
On Wikipedia in China (or lack thereof): “You know, it’s not accessible from public internet. I have to find a proxy server to get that page. I know it’s just a click in a open internet world, but now i have to hate the knowledge blocker, it’s their own fault.”
Broken Kode
WordPress, I LOVE YOU. Interesting post, but rambles a little bit and has two inaccuracies. Textpattern is under an open source license now. b2evo can import from MT. I like the name of his category, “Cerebral Interviews.”
Redirection Proposal
As many people have heard now, blogs that were previously hosted at weblogs.com are now needing to find new homes. Dave is going to be sending people their backup files but it looks like a lot of links may be broken, and some people proposed keeping a list of the old and new URIs.
Why not go one step better? I apologize if this is not technically feasible for whatever reason, but here’s my idea. DNS is very flexible, Dave can have specific A records for subdomains of sites that are going to stay under weblogs.com, and then set up a wildcard * A record to point to a different IP. This IP could be anyone running a service that would allow people to redirect their old domains to their new ones. Technically this would be pretty simple, no more than a few hours of hacking. The machine serving the redirects could have a wildcard virtualhost entry in Apache and a simple PHP script (or Python script, or RewriteMap) to serve 301 Moved Permanently headers depending on the hostname.
It could redirect to whatever the site owner wanted. The hosting overhead would be minimal. I’m willing to personally commit to writing the code and hosting it for at least 2 years.