Prince uses WordPress at 3121.com. Hat tip: Ben Yarbrough.
Dries Buytaert asks “Can we save the open web?” and makes an amazing case for why we should. I agree with and endorse basically everything in that post.
Millions of Blondes
I’m not going to particpate in it, but the “best blonde joke” (example) thing is driving thousands and thousands of hits every day to WordPress.com. It’s traffic on par with a front-page Digg, just constant and steady. Where did this thing come from??? (Continuing my tradition of being a month late to internet trends.)
Kindle Thoughts
Seth’s Blog: Random thoughts about the Kindle. I agree with most of this. I’ve been meaning to write a Kindle review forever. I’m probably not going to get to it, but I will say that it has fundamentally changed the way I read and buy books. It has also increased my book reading a non-trivial amount.
Firebug
July 4th Picnic
At Maya’s for a July 4th picnic.
Mac Theme Development
Rockstar
There’s a new WordPress book available: Rockstar WordPress Designer.
Paris Day 2
Drinks with core WordPress France folks at Centre Georges Pompidou.
Red Button Meeting
Those of you who know what the Red Button is, and those who are curious, should come to today’s meeting of the Red Button Fan Club at Tropioca at 12:30. The Creator of the button will be in attendance.
WordPress Spike
I’ve noticed WordPress downloads and newsletter subscriptions are about 60% above the daily average the last few days. Maybe people are making new year resolutions to switch?
Foto Mateo
In the interest of expanding the Photo Matt audience we’ve commissioned a team of expert translators to create Foto Mateo. š Update: To clarify, this is a joke. It just is a Google translate proxy of this site. Read the comments for more. Thanks for everyone who emailed in that it was, in fact, a very bad translation.
Once a little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved it. I answer all my childrenās lettersāsometimes very hastilyābut this one I lingered over. I sent him a card and I drew a picture of a Wild Thing on it. I wrote, āDear Jim: I loved your card.ā Then I got a letter back from his mother and she said, āJim loved your card so much he ate it.ā That to me was one of the highest compliments I’ve ever received. He didn’t care that it was an original Maurice Sendak drawing or anything. He saw it, he loved it, he ate it.
FromĀ Maurice Sendak, the author of Where the Wild Things Are.
Raptor Drive
The WD Raptor drive got here yesterday, now all I need to finish up this new workstation is to pick a motherboard/CPU combo. (And get matching memory.) Can’t decide whether to go P4 or Athlon 64.
How To Get Lots of Links and Traffic
No More Websites
BlogSavvy, which I’ve been enjoying lately, asks Why on earth would you want a website? “This time round that hadn’t even popped into my mindā¦ of course I was going to use WordPress to put it together, why would I waste my time and expend my energy on doing it any other way?” James really “gets” a lot of topics.
WordPress for Dummies Book Review
WordPress for Dummies Book Review. Happy Thanksgiving! I’m stuffed.
du -sH
du -sH “du: WARNING: use –si, not -H; the meaning of the -H option will soon
change to be the same as that of –dereference-args (-D).” Now why on earth would they change that?
More Screens
The quad-monitor setup is going well. None of them match each other, but it’s 62″ of total screen space. Life is good. Firefox still seems to have some issues when it’s used on a secondary monitor, but hopefully that’ll work itself out in a later release.
XML-RPC Vulnerability
To clarify for all the confused people WordPress is not affected by the recent XML-RPC problem that lots of other apps were. We use different, more secure libraries for XML-RPC. The problem was discovered by the same guy though, I imagine he was auditing our code and found totally unrelated, which we fixed in our recent release. Of course you wouldn’t guess that from the title, “PHP Blogging Apps Vulnerable to XML-RPC Exploits.” Let’s go down the list: PostNuke – content management; WordPress – blogging; Drupal – content/community management; Serendipity – blogging; phpAdsNew – ad serving; phpWiki – wiki (not blogging); phpMyFAQ – FAQ management. If it bleeds it leads, right? š