If these new display rumors pan out they look mighty tasty.

This looks very promising.

Because of the size of the photolog, I had to break it up and move everything over by hand. However now it is badly out of order. The thought of manually reordering 282 albums is terrifying. I need a way out. I’m watching this thread closely.

Rannie is in the middle of his Blogger Week pictures and today I make an appearance. Thanks Rannie. 🙂

Well hello there. Welcome to the new server.

Staticize Plugin for WordPress. Drop in your plugins directory, create a directory for it to put stuff, and activate. Instant on-demand caching. I’m going to try this out here as soon as I finish the server move. (The photolog may be broken for a few hours.)

I just finished reading Budget Design: Increase Profit by Improving Process by Dan Rubin and Dider Hilhorst. It’s free for a week ($9 later) so now’s a good time to grab it. It was enjoyable and well-executed with lots of valuable insight. Highly recommended.

Microsoft Expression, a free vector image tool for Macs and PCs. Hat tip: Cheryl Wise.

It seems for blogs.sun.com WordPress was considered at one point, but they decided to go with the Java product Roller instead. Too bad, because their feeds seem strange, they have terrible URIs, and I have no idea what’s the permalink for a page. Anyway.

Brian Alvey on periodic table usage. His problems sound like nothing that couldn’t be fixed with a little overflow and some non-float layout tricks. The WIN sites really need a makeover, or a markover, because it looks like tag soup to me. “My readers are more important than the year I’ll spend in purgatory for using a single table in an otherwise modern layout.” Say three Our Zeldmans and you should be alright. (Another note: WIN sites don’t support pingback or trackback yet?)

Using public keys for SSH authentication. Do it.

Chris Davis has put together an alternate admin UI for WordPress. He modifies a few of the files though, which could make upgrading a real pain.

Noel goes to Japan (and blogs it with WordPress). Unicode support should come in handy.

I really, really like Nutella.

Gmail invites. The only thing I get on my Gmail account (mmmmmm@gmail.com) are people begging for invites, which has gotten very old very fast. It’s almost as bad as the people who stumble across my old Orkut entry and feel it’s my duty to invite them. I’ve given out one account so far, and it was to Simon.

Question for MT to WP converts: “To those of you who have converted, or who are thinking of converting – what plugin/hack/thing-a-ma-jig did you used to have for MT that you wish you could have now. I think there is very little (if anything at all?!) that I did in MT that couldn’t be done as easily (if not EASIER!) in WordPress. So, while I can’t say I’ll promise to get to everything right away, I’d like to re-create as many tutorials as possible for WordPress.”

Scoble visits an amazingly high tech church.

I’m moving Leonard off my updated list because he seems to be pinging constantly, even when there are no updates or changes. With my old-school aggregator style it makes it very annoying to visit his site. Moral of the story: don’t cry wolf with your pings.

Brad Choate’s Key Values Plugin for MT. I’ll have to look at how this compares to WordPress’ built-in custom fields functionality.