Happy Birthday Om!

September 29, 2016Friends, PersonalMatt

Today the legendary Om Malik celebrates his 50th time around the sun. For many that know him, Om defies definition: He’s first a writer, and finally always a true friend, but in between he’s an investor, photographer, oenophile, closet Bollywood fan, critical thinker, and sartorialist. He’s also been my friend and confidant for over a decade now, and I cannot wait to see what his next 50 years bring for him and the world.

Here’s some snaps of Om over the years, from 2008 to just a few weeks ago when he was blonde for a few days. Happy birthday, buddy. 😀

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London Meetup Update

December 9, 2005AsidesMatt

I’m here with Khaled and Podz at the Revolution Bar in Soho. We’ll be hanging out here into the night so come by if you fancy.

Rob Paterson writes Why do corporation die so soon and cities don’t? Corporations are Machines and Cities are Networks. Along the way he brings it back to WordPress and the Wikipedia.

WordCamp SF 2009

December 12, 2008WordCampWordCampMatt

WordCamp San Francisco 2009 will be on May 30, 2009.

I’m glad the New York Times is covering how to safely cut an avocado, because I’ve messed that up 100% of the time I’ve tried to handle an avocado in the past month. It makes you almost want to forgive them for that green pea guacamole thing.

Home Storage Solution

May 11, 2005TechMatt

Jeremy’s search for a home network storage appliance is very similar to my own, so go give him advice. I’ve also been considering just getting another dedicated server instead, for ~$100 a month I can get a high-bandwidth server with 250+ GB of storage and upgrade it every year. Of course this might not be necessary with home bandwidth going up — I got two offers this month for 10mbps and 25mbps internet connections in my building for under $30 a month, a third of what I just paid to Comcast.

Nathan Myhrvold, who pops up on this blog frequently, finds we need clean energy yesterday (and no natural gas) to avoid being cooked.

Music Industry Lessons

January 10, 2008PersonalMatt

Music lessons. “Things you can learn from the music business (as it falls apart).”

WordPress Interface History

December 16, 2008WordPressWordPressMatt

A Journey Through Five Years of WordPress Interface. Take a look at what the WordPress interface looked like at the beginning of 2008. How far we’ve come!

Houston Meetup

March 17, 2007Events, PersonalMatt

I’m in Houston for a few more days and we’re doing a meetup on Monday night. Erica writes more about it here. Update: The meetup was a ton of fun and went late into the night. Thanks to everyone that came out!

Fewer Bugs in Open Source

December 14, 2004TechMatt

Research proves what open source folks have been saying all along: “An analysis of the 5.7 million lines of Linux source code shows that it contains fewer bugs per thousand lines of code than commercial counterparts.”

WordPress Skills

January 13, 2009WordPressMatt

oDesk Reports “WordPress” Fastest Growing In-Demand Skill in 2008.

Disable GreaseMonkey

May 19, 2005LinksMatt

How to disable GreaseMonkey, now if only Google would let us disable Autolink.

Remove from Meetup

May 26, 2005LinksMatt

Even though I’ve stepped down as the organizer for all of the Meetup groups I was involved in, they kept bugging me every few days to “be an organizer” for the very groups I had left. Want to delete yourself from Meetup entirely? Here’s the remove from Meetup link.

Mesh Conference

April 10, 2006EventsMatt

Toronto was so nice, I'm going to head back for Canada's Web 2.0 conference, aka Mesh. It's a really underrated city.

One True Permalink Plugin

May 30, 2005WordPressMatt

I’m using this nifty plugin from Scott Yang which was pointed out to me by Alistair. It’s actually replacing a bit of code and mod_rewrite rules I had to do the same thing, I wish I had thought of this sooner. I could see something like this making it into the core.

WordPress App of Year

January 3, 2005WordPressMatt

Mike and Clay wrote in that WordPress has been named Web Application of the Year by ArsTechnica. Wow, that’s quite an honor for the entire team.

The Verge has a pretty epic feature on the history of Palm, Treo, and WebOS. Not many people know this but I started and ran the Houston Palm Users Group after getting a Handspring Visor in high school. PalmOS had apps, connectivity, handwriting input, infrared beaming…

Interview with Anil

Two weeks ago I blogged about a radically simpler WordPress, a topic first broached with Anil Dash at the PaidContent conference. The full video from that conversation is now online and only about 20 minutes:

Video Freedom

June 4, 2010PersonalMatt

VideoPress now gives you the option to only use Free formats, which means Theora and Vorbis played via HTML5.

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