Scoble visits an amazingly high tech church.
Overping
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.
Key Values Plugin
Brad Choate’s Key Values Plugin for MT. I’ll have to look at how this compares to WordPress’ built-in custom fields functionality.
New Stopdesign
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.