Full Moon Festival in Hoi An, Vietnam. Also Tim and I got the cheapest haircut ever, about $0.80 a piece, and I got a shave for another dollar or so. (You don’t want to cheap a guy holding a razor to your neck.)
Hue
Touring the various temples and tombs of Tu Duc and Khai Dinh around Hue, Vietnam.
Pottery and Water
End of boating, pottery studio, and fishing in Hanoi.
Ha Long Bay
Driving to and on a cruise ship around Ha Long Bay, Vietnam.
Awesome Comment Plugins
Introducing IntenseDebate Plugins: add the features you want. Now ID has a plugin architecture (just like WordPress) that allows you to enhance the functionality of comments. First ones out the gate are polls, Youtube, Seesmic, and of course smileys. Want to supercharge your comments?
Around Hanoi
Visiting the “Hanoi Hilton” prison, Ho Chi Min’s house, an art museum, a pedal-bike tour, some awesome break-dancers, and random place dinner.
New Spring Design
Time to break out of your RSS readers: there’s a new design on Ma.tt! Recommended only for the high-bandwidth and the open-minded. There was nothing wrong with my old theme, I just get an itch for something new every now and then and wanted a totally different direction — especially now that every site has copped the worn paper look / colorful flourish. Also it’s refreshing to be able to have a design where the only person in the world it needs to please is me. Here’s a before and after:
For fans of the old design, I’m going to abstract it into a regular WordPress theme — gallery features and all — that will be available to the entire world, including WordPress.com. It’s amazing to me how many great designs are thrown away, never to be used again, when as a WP theme they could live forever.
I wanted to thank Julien Morel, the creative mind behind this iteration, and Brian Colinger, who turned the vision into HTML, CSS, and PHP.
If I could I would redesign the site every season: Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall. It just always takes longer than I planned (this was supposed to launch in Winter). The cobbler’s sons go shoeless.
Arriving in Hanoi
Arriving in Hanoi, Vietnam and some brief sojourns around the city.
Open Source Usability
Open Source Usability — Joomla! Vs. WordPress. We’re on Slashdot again, with of course the predictable comments somehow ending up in an argument about Vim and Emacs. 🙂
WordCamp Denver
WordCamp Denver at the Art Museum, which was a fantastic venue.
Magazine Theme
Check out “Magazeen”: Free Magazine-Look WordPress Theme. Even better: it’s GPL.
Denver Dinner
Pre-WordCamp dinner in Denver, where it was very cold.
Ryanair Diss
In a relatively bizarre case an employee of Ryanair left disparaging remarks about WordPress on someone’s blog. Someone with the airline should apologize.
WordCamp Dehli Day 2
Day 2 of WordCamp Dehli, many fewer photos, all done with tilt-shift lens.
WordCamp Delhi, India
Attending the WordCamp in Delhi, India with Om.
Om’s India Posts
Om has been doing a bit of blogging from here in India: More Bars in More Places and What the Taj Mahal and Apple Have in Common.
ReadWriteWeb France
ReadWriteWeb France Catches Up with Matt Mullenweg. The French version of RWW uses WordPress and is doing really well.
Taj Mahal, Agra
Visiting Agra and the Taj Mahal with Om.
Embedding WP.com Video
Implementing WordPress.com Video on a WordPress.org site. It’s easy, but I agree it would be nice if the video media embed popup made this more seamless.
SxSW Pool Team
There’s going to be a pool (billiards) competition at SxSW this year in Austin benefiting charity and I’m thinking about putting together a WordPress team for it. Are you a world-class pool player, WordPress user, and going to be in Austin the night of Sunday March 15th? Leave a comment saying why you should carry the WordPress banner and I’ll pick the two best to represent the WordPress community at the event.