Doug has redone Stopdesign, and I must say it’s pretty spiffy. But who am I to say anything bad about fixed width designs and subtle lines in the background? His use of large normal weight Georgia is attractive, which is something I tried to use on the WordPress site when it was redesigned a few months ago. I’m a sucker for Georgia though. (Though you can’t tell from this site.) Thoughts: Everything is very clean, but the URIs are still crufty. The different colors on the different sections are great. There is a lot of really interesting attention to detail. It will take some getting used to though, it feels more “bloggy.”
English
ABC
Nikolai recommends ABC, or Yet Another Bittorrent Client.
HiMD
Sony’s HiMD player stores 45 hours of music per disc, and allows uploading. The lack of digital uploading was the biggest gripe I had about my (now stolen) MD player/recorder. Lack of recording is the number one reason I’m probably not going to get an iPod.
CDF for WordPress
Adam does CDF for WordPress. Is there anything we don’t support?
More Pings!
93,548 pings yesterday… so close! I know you guys can do better than that. The assignment for the day is to tell at least two people on your blogroll about Pingomatic.
Waterlily
Spent some time with Kathy and Sarah tonight, what pleasant people. Any night with BBQ is a good night, but with company like that it’s even better.
Azureus
Azureus is a really excellent cross-platform bittorrent client. The best I’ve used so far. This is an arena really waiting for its killer app.
Calvin Owens
Picked up a fresh box of reeds today. In about two weeks I’ll be in the recording studio with the Calvin Owens Blues Orchestra. Looking forward to it. 🙂
FCC
Why the FCC should die. Declan in rare form.
Mmm Apache
I just got Apache 2 configured locally to serve all the different web apps I run locally (phpWiki, Tasks, WordPress, phpCoder, and some propietary stuff) as different virtual hosts with unique fake hostnames. I don’t know why this is a big deal to me, but it’s much cleaner. My local wiki has grown quite a bit, with hundreds of pages in it now. I’m not sure how I functioned before
defective yeti
Born to Plog. Classic.
Life Hacks
Odd Position
I seem to be in between Wonkette and Belle de Jour, whatever that means.
scriptygoddess
For those that missed it, ScriptyGoddess is running on WordPress now.
Cruft-FreeURLs
Ryan Boren on cruft-free URLs in WordPress: “With the next release, every link generated by WordPress should be cruft-free.” He should know, he’s been writing everything useful in the cruft-free URL space since my initial implementation.
WordPress Meetup
Wow, this is very exciting—a WordPress meetup! I was just browsing around came across this post on Blogging Pro saying that there is now a WordPress meetup on the fourth saturday of every month. The very first one is coming up on June 26th. Funnily enough though I don’t travel very often it looks like I’m going to be out of town that week. (Any San Francisco WordPress users up for a meetup?) You can bet that I’m going to try and make as many of these as possible. I know at least a few very active WordPress users are in Texas, with developer Ryan Boren in Dallas and a few people in Austin. It would be very neat to have a yearly event where we all got together. BBQ is on me.
Since I last saw it Meetup has gotten some nice enhancements. I’ve been burned at a couple of meetups where I was the only person that showed up. I’ll have to give them another chance.
Ellipsis
Enterprising girl in Singapore is offering WordPress installations for $5, and pledges to donate half.
Scot Hacker
Scot Hacker on WordPress: “Not prepared for something this polished and smooth.”
Linux for the Masses
It’s not there yet. I’m being totally unfair, because comparing Windows or OS X to the Linux distribution I’m using (Gentoo) is like apples and oranges. Gentoo is meant for people who are comfortable with the command-line and want to experiment. (It’d be fairer to compare Windows to Suse.) But I just want to bridge a connection between an ethernet card and a wireless USB device. Is that too much to ask? When I did this in Windows I just highlighted the two connections, right-clicked, and chose “Bridge Connections.” It spun for a little bit and then it was done. End of story.
The work started yesterday, when I figured out that the reason nothing would emerge is that there were bad GCC flags in my make.conf file. How they got there, I’ll never know. Bad ebuild I guess. So I got that fixed, synced, and updated world. 85 packages! The next day I compiled a new kernel (2.6.7-rc2) but forgot to load the Tulip module required for my ethernet card. Recompile, reboot. Runs great, and I tell myself everything is running faster. Right now I’m bridging my desk LAN to the main router through the Windows desktop, and since I just moved the linux box on a new UPS I’d like to move the wireless connection there too. I was feeling lucky, so I tried just plugging it in to see what happened. dmesg, device not recognized. Search search search the excellent Gentoo forums, find out that to get my MA101 working I shouldn’t use the drivers from Sourceforge, but rather the at76c503a Atmel drivers for wireless USB devices. Download, compile against current kernel sources, install. Reboot. Don’t have any wireless tools. emerge wireless-utilities. Twiddle for 45 minutes to see why it won’t see any networks. Forgot to enable “Wireless radio (non-HAM)” support in the kernel. Recompile. Reboot. iwscan shows my network, iwconfig wlan0 works as expected. The instructions that tell me to put in ad-hoc mode are wrong. (Hour later.) Put it in Managed mode. Cycle the device and run dhcpd wlan0. Ping Yahoo. Online! Track down documentation on bridging. Emerge bridging program. Appears to run fine, but gives a funky error and doesn’t seem to do anything. Add “802.11d bridging” support to kernel. Recompile. Remount /boot. Copy kernel. Reboot… Computer loads everything through Gnome, then mouse and keyboard freezes. Switch back to laptop, write blog entry to let off steam. Reboot again, just to see if it’ll work. Loads, run brctl.So far so good. brctl addbr mattlan returns br_add_bridge: Package not installed, which seems to indicate that the proper kernel module isn’t installed. Would check the .config, but the computer just froze again.
I need some rest.