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• Good example of bad alt text. (7) ¶
• Super-Efficient Image Rollovers using javascript. This seems to be the JS predecessor to Pixy’s CSS-only fast rollovers. (1) ¶
• “The question remains: if we dismantle the job system, then what do we replace it with?” (1) ¶
• An Arabic WordPress blog. I have no idea on earth what it says though. (1) ¶
• Tantek muses on contact information. One of my coding dreams has always been to sit down for a few months and write the perfect contact manager. I daydream about it sometimes and have a lot of the implementation worked out in my head. Imagine something like Plaxo, but distributed, not annoying, completely automatic, and with an infinitely flexible versioned backend. In fact, not like Plaxo at all. (2) ¶

• OrderedList.com v2.0, a very attractive site redesigns. I dig the curved navigation at the top. Good IA, good writing. Groovy motif. Reverse breadcrumbs. RSS and such a little funky though. Why isn’t this guy using WordPress? A blog to watch. (1) ¶
• “When I grow up, I’d like to be a director of leprechaun equity!” Don’t we all. (0) ¶
• “Are there two ‘homes’? A Web page duplex?” (0) ¶
• Funky Typepad DNS error I ran into today. And what is up with every Typepad site having the same favicon? Ruins my tabs. ( I was trying to get to http://ditto.typepad.com/ the blog by the creator of RubHub.) (2) ¶
• Feeling a bit better than yesterday, thanks for all the well-wishes. Geof said I probably needed sleep and my body would make me have it one way or another. He’s right, I think I’m about to crash again. Had a meeting today I had to go to, and it went well. Generally trying to stay away from the computer though, however today has been an interesting day. Today has been a domain-registering day, which is always a sign of exciting things to come. :) (1) ¶
• Between the Lines is the ZDNet blog. Looks like WordPress to me. :) (By the way, that page isn’t far from validation. It’s mostly pretty nice markup. Must be a staging area, because the main site has markup straight out of the 90s.) (1) ¶
• Matt May on Implementing SVG: “Hyatt is, of course, neglecting to mention that, alongside the KHTML engine Safari is based on, there is a KSVG engine. They wouldn’t have to reinvent the wheel to use that any more than they did to integrate KHTML.” My impression is they’ve put a lot of work into KHTML, but the point stands. Even a subset of SVG would be immmediately useful. (0) ¶
• Someone just reported when they visit WordPress.org it tries to download a file instead of showing the web page. Can anyone recreate this? (16) ¶

• It’s official, I’m sick. Since Monday I kept telling myself this was just allergies but now my throat hurts and my voice is going and I need to accept the fact and start eating/sleeping/drinking in a manner consistent with getting better. Bad timing, but it always is. Posting will either be light or heavier than ever. (5) ¶
• Eric is looking for someone good to write a CSS book (0) ¶
• Speaking of lists, I have a small list of well-designed WordPress blogs I’ve come across. I’m open to suggestions, so if you have a favorite that isn’t on the list let me know. (18) ¶
• I noticed today that about a third of my updated blogroll is now powered by WordPress. This is a skewed sample, surely, but at least half of those I never would have imagined converting. I was remembering today when WordPress first got started and out of all the developers I was the only one running it. Mike and Alex were still on b2 because they had a lot of hacks that would be hard to transition, and Dougal was on some funky system he had previously contributed to. (MyPHPBlog?) You could count the number of WP blogs on one hand. That was about a year ago. (3) ¶
• ZIMoBLOG now uses Ping-O-Matic. Leave the hard stuff to someone else. (0) ¶
• Novell is giving away copies of SuSE Pro. Step 3: Profit!!! Hat tip: dented21 in #wordpress. (7) ¶
• Molly explains her move, an interesting read. (0) ¶
• mod_validator offers several advantages to the W3C validator. Worth checking out if you run Apache 2.0. (2) ¶
• WordPress plugin allows people to subscribe to a weblog through email. Nifty. (0) ¶

• Molly E. Holzschlag, author of Teach Yourself Movable Type and much else, has switched to WordPress. Her switch was quite an adventure. Getting the data out of a partially-corrupted Berkeley database into something either MT or WordPress could parse really was a challenge . (0) ¶
• Christine, who came up with the name “WordPress” about a year ago, has switched to WordPress from Movable Type. 3,500 posts and 17,000 comments were imported without a hitch. (2) ¶
• Anyone have a copy of Danny O’Brien’s Life Hacks video from NotCon? (Update: The video is now online. I’m downloading it now.) (6) ¶
• Rotten PEAR. I’ve noticed a “good ‘ol boy” mentality in most of the PHP “community” efforts. Is PHP succeeding because of its community or in spite of it? Hat tip: Jeff Moore. (0) ¶
• How to make your Perl code more obscure (2) ¶
• “Help bring us closer to the goal of replacing the graduate student in literature with a small Perl script.” (0) ¶
• Danny Ayers, semantic web advocate, likes how WordPress handles Iñtërnâtiônàlizætiøn. Jim Ley, another RDF/FOAF guy, has also switched to WordPress. Where are they coming from? (1) ¶
• Use WordPress’ built-in authentication to secure your blog. (0) ¶
• The story of the man the movie Terminal was based on. (0) ¶
• Map out your posting locations, very groovy. Uses RSS. (2) ¶
• Dan Brickley, creator of FOAF and W3C RDF advocate, is using WordPress. (0) ¶
• Judge blogs by their covers, powered by WordPress. (0) ¶
• Bush2004 upgrades to WordPress blog, I think I saw this guy at SxSW, if he was indeed the one wearing the bush2004.com hat and t-shirt. (8) ¶
• CNET News.com linking policy. Seems sane. (1) ¶
• A Windows/Apache/MySQL/PHP distribution offers WordPress as their first plugin. Is it just me or do all of these things come out of Germany? (5) ¶
• On Coltrane’s A Love Supreme: “I think about Kenny G., for instance. His rythmic session is much more regular, whereas Coltrane’s session seems sometimes to loose the beat.” (Listen to Branford’s interpretation of one movement.) (2) ¶
• You Might Be A WordPress Junkie If… (8) ¶
• The Tao of Keith, a guide to success in life. Long, but worth the read. (0) ¶
• The Art of Questioning your Clients (0) ¶
• About how many hours of productive work do you get done a day? Comment anonymously if you prefer. (25) ¶
• Amazon WordPress plugin, looks handy. (6) ¶
• I just logged into Friendster and it’s really fast. Like Orkut fast. Their markup looks good too. Russell Beattie continues the PHP discussion with Is PHP Really More Scalable Than JSP? (0) ¶
• Calculate Pagerank with PHP, using some funky but cool code. Better than having to fire up IE just to use the toolbar. (4) ¶
• Friendster addresses performance problems by switching from Java to PHP. Note in the comments how language zealots are flailing about pointing to benchmarks saying how much faster JSP is. The comments from the PHP guys are the only decent ones in the thread. I stand by the assertion that PHP is the top web language to use to get stuff done. (4) ¶
• “I read the testimonials and almost didn’t believe them.” (0) ¶

• Michael Simmons presents fluid shadows on his attractive site. (0) ¶
• The Power of WordPress, or how to leverage a robust platform to speed development. I’ve grown so accustomed to WP functions and resources that I find myself including the WP files as a base to work from even when what I’m doing has nothing to do with blogging. (1) ¶
• Black Feminism powered by WordPress, a migration from Drupal. “If you’re interested in using WordPress, I encourage you to. It’s well documented, open source, and standards-compliant. It does help if you know PHP, but it’s not crucial. All-in-all, a wonderful web log tool.” (3) ¶
• Fast Company clarifies linking policy. Hat tip: Anil. (0) ¶
• The reason we should stick to making websites. Be sure to check out the rest of Simon’s excellent SF photos. (2) ¶

• Meryl on WordPress (0) ¶
• Alex announces his new hosted service Use Tasks. (0) ¶
• Running an experiment with my email today, we’ll see how it turns out. This could be quite interesting. (5) ¶
• Ev says “Apparently I’m a bot.” The most important question: Why in the world was he using Register.com? (3) ¶
• This site’s bandwidth usage is approximately 4 percent from syndication feeds. (3) ¶
• Three invitations. Just leave a comment and say why you need it. (18) ¶
• Eric does a linklog. In for a penny, in for a dollar. The one thing that bugs me about this type of link blog with the commentary in the title attribute is that Mozilla and family cuts off the title tooltip when you hover over the link. To see the entire message I either have to view source or right click and chose “Properties", which also has a set length and I usually have to select the text and move my mouse to get it to “scroll.” Is there a better solution? (11) ¶
• Mike Davidson writes Converting CGI Movable Type Templates to PHP. No comment permalinks, but my response is # 13. (1) ¶
• Shai Coggins, a WordPress user, writes weblogs.about.com. (0) ¶
• Live Press Release 1.2.0, a WordPress plugin that synchronizes WordPress with Livejournal. (0) ¶
• Is it just me or is the internet going really slow? My connection is crawling and it’s making it very hard to get any work done. (9) ¶
• MinJungKim.com is now powered by WordPress. Imported 2 separate blogger blogs and one MT blog (5 years of archives!) and about 160 blogroll links from Blogrolling without a hitch. (4) ¶
• Cupertino, start your photocopiers! At least when some other companies rip something off they have the decency to buy out the original. (1) ¶
• Post to your blog using instant messenger, works with WordPress using the Blogger or Metaweblog API. That said, this seems way too complicated for end users. (4) ¶
• Powdered by Wordpress (1) ¶
• Don’t link to Fast Company (1) ¶
• Steve Minutillo writes PHP, XML, and Character Encodings: a tale of sadness, rage, and (data-)loss. Hat tip: Alex. (0) ¶
• Dot Totally on Pingomatic. We’re addressing the spam problem as it happens. (3) ¶

• Photos from SFMOMA, Six Apart, dinner, Bubble Lounge, including this gem with Mena and Ben. (2) ¶
• My recent mini-redesign was inspired a lot by Ethan. I didn’t realize this until I visited his site today. I love how that sunflower comes down below the menu and into the content area (2) ¶
• Dave resigns from RSS advisory board, this is a very mature thing to do. (1) ¶
• Eric on structural class names again, but my question is whether or not semantics belong in class in the first place? No matter how you cut it, divs and spans are still the semantic duct tape of the web, and it seems like a better solution would be a richer array of semantic elements available in a way that’s backwards compatible with current HTML. (Not XHTML 2.0.) (3) ¶

• Take the Caltrain, forgot to blog this before. (0) ¶
• Photos from downtown SF, CNET, inner Sunset, and Haight. (0) ¶
• Installing WordPress on OS X 10.3, well-written and thorough. (0) ¶
• I met Loic at the dinner the other night, nice guy. He was sitting next to a Drupal developer. Look like an interesting table. (2) ¶
• Second Horseman of the Macopalypse, classic Jonas wit. (0) ¶
• Web Page Analyzer has been (finally) updated. (2) ¶
• WordPress in simplified Chinese. Looks complicated to me. (Thanks, I’m here all week…) (1) ¶
• Tantek and I will be at Rockin’ Java on Haight @ Shrader from 8 PM till about 10. If anyone is interested swing by and say hi. (0) ¶

• Pictures from Upper Haight, Google, a long drive, and the Supernova dinner. These desperately need captioning. (2) ¶
• The photos are up from my second day in San Francisco, including the WaSP mini-conference/party. There are a few funny ones but the ones from today are really great, I just need to finish a few up. (5) ¶
• Someone told me WordPress was on TechTV today. Anyone catch it? (8) ¶
• Tantek gives notice to Microsoft, and will be at Technorati. I got to talk a good amount tonight with Kevin Marks and David Sifry. Technorati has had some growing pains lately, but I can finally understand why they’re expanding so rapidly: Dave is an incredibly charasmatic ambassador for their genuinely interesting technology. Add in a good team, and it’s a recipe for success. (0) ¶
• Why WordPress? An oldie but a goodie. (1) ¶

• Kitten’s Friendly Comments 1.0, allows you to whitelist friends and moderate everyoneelse. Haven’t tried it myself yet, but how can you not like a name like that? (1) ¶
• Is WebMonkey back? Does it matter? (5) ¶
• Photos from my first day in SF are up, there were some others but with any luck they’ll never see the light of day. (3) ¶
• Ten Questions for Molly Holzschlag (0) ¶
• Netcraft on WordPress and blogging software shift, however the best reason to use WP isn’t that it’s free, it’s that it works better. Hat tip: Simon. (1) ¶

• Davezilla, funniest site on the net, redesigns and switches to WordPress. Seems a little slow though, might want to check out the Staticize Reloaded plugin. (2) ¶
• I changed up the comment styles a bit. Let me know what you think. I had to make a compromise with an extra element. When my audience drops below 20% Internet Explorer I’ll move to a purely generated content solution. (I estimate in about 2006.) (10) ¶
• By the way, you may have noticed that the random photo is back to being random again. Every ten minutes one picture will be chosen from the almost nine thousand to grace the header. If you see an interesting one, please click on it and leave a comment. (3) ¶
• Image hotlinking protection breaks online aggregators, but bandwidth doesn’t matter anymore so it’s moot. (5) ¶
• The three top cities for the WordPress meetup right now are San Francisco, Houston, and Manila (in the Phillipines). Four people have confirmed their attendence at the Borders in San Francisco so far. If only four people come, we’ll still have a blast, but I suspect there will be some surprise guests that should make things very interesting. Saturday at 4 PM, possibly in a city near you. Don’t forget. (3) ¶
• The other Matt is looking for the Netscape 2.02 secure site interface. Can anyone help him out? (0) ¶
• Simon says “Maybe a friendly UI on top of the custom per-site stylesheet would help though” A fantastic idea. (0) ¶
• These Corbis galleries have some beautifully done photos. Worth poking around for portrait ideas, at the very least. (0) ¶
• Handy Dandy Guides to MD5 and passwords, in which you can see why we use that method for WordPress. Hat tip: Sushubh. (3) ¶
• Matt May, best known to me for his accessibility work and employment at the W3C, appears to have switched to WordPress. Also, congrats on the 5k (which has nothing to do with computers). All he needs now are cooler URIs. (4) ¶
• Finished up a Will & Grace mini-marathon and had some great buffalo wings at “BW3″ with Kathy, Sarah, and and Kathy’s husband Tom. Great food and company. :) (4) ¶
• Lisa Williams uses the Dewey Decimal system to categorize her WordPress blog. Krazy. (0) ¶
• Fighting for Apple, a nice overview mainly addressing why Michael loves his Mac. I’m the last web-geek I know that doesn’t use a Mac, and the peer pressure is pretty harsh. (9) ¶
• WordPressing matters: Fixing Press It for FireFox 0.9, this will of course be in the next release. (0) ¶
• I made some much needed cleanups to the URI structure around here. I changed my links, but yours can stay the same. Every previous variation of permalinks all the way back to when I first started with b2 still works, and all serve permanent redirects to the latest and greatest. (3) ¶
• Eric Meyer: Elemental Nomenclature. If I had to name everything the same it would stifle my creativity so much I think I’d go back to tables. A better start to this would be instead of looking at the naming scheme of a dozen or so web designers, look at the naming scheme of widely used blog software. Is it worth all that work for such an amazingly small minority of users though? User stylesheets have never taken off, and I seriously doubt they ever will. (7) ¶
• Turck MMCache Vs PHP Accelerator. I used to use PHPA and then migrated to MMcache recently, however I had to turn it off because it kept segfaulting when compiling KSES files. However the caching functions and shared memory stuff is really neat. (0) ¶
• Free FeedDemon Crack (1) ¶
• WordPress IRC channel, #wordpress on irc.freenode.net. (0) ¶
• Jeffrey Veen on FeedBurner and Ping-O-Matic, sorry if I already blogged this one. (1) ¶
• Thunderbyrd WordPress wish list, what’s neat is almost everything is covered through plugins. Also see the official wishlist on the wiki. (1) ¶
• Neat color shift widget, includes a Photo Matt color scheme. Fun to play with. (0) ¶
• 11,000 and counting. (1) ¶
• 2 million and counting. (0) ¶

• Load all your mail into Gmail, at a rate of 30 messages per minute. I don’t want to think about how long this would take for me. Hat tip: Carthik. (8) ¶
• Oh yeah, who needs to support IE 6 in new standards? It’s not important at all. (0) ¶

• The *.weblogs.com sites will be back up soon and there are several options for moving to other Manilla providers or importing to WordPress. (0) ¶
• When I’m in SF next week I promise I’ll try to get Tantek to blog again. (1) ¶
• SmartyPants On Demand (instead of all the time). I’ve refactored some parts of Texturize so it’s even faster and smarter than before, and that’ll be in the next WP release. I got an email from a project manager at Google a week or two ago asking for a Texturize feature list and if the code was available. He wouldn’t say what they were going to use it for. (3) ¶
• Michael has a mid-blog crisis and axes his linklog. That’s too bad because he always had unique stuff. (1) ¶
• Firefox Bookmark Synchronization. Hat tip: Todd Dominey. (1) ¶
• The part of this essay not about deliberately invalidating every page on your site is good. (6) ¶
• Smarty 2.6.3 is available, the new cache filename stuff is nice. (0) ¶
• This is too beautiful not to share. Pursuance, the third movement of the Love Supreme, as performed by the Branford Marsalis quartet. When I first heard he was doing this, I thought there was no way he could do justice to the original. I have also heard a recording of him attempting Love Supreme from the early nineties and it wasn’t up to snuff. This recording, however, is amazingly intense. (1) ¶
• So I’ve tapped into Linux on my WRT54GS using the Sveasoft firmware, and it’s pretty sweet being able to SSH into your router. Should be very useful when I’m on the road as well. Local DNS cache is running great. Security stuff seems solid. Finally, Wonder Shaper is keeping my roommate’s games from bothering me. ;) (0) ¶
• Red Hat goes after the corporate desktop. The key is standardized hardware in corporate enviroments. Windows is excellent at working with any dang thing you plug into it, or the dang thing coming with a CD with Windows drivers. (0) ¶
• Make HTML sing, something I work toward every day. (5) ¶
• Thank you for shopping at Kroger’s, Mr Pinochet. (0) ¶
• 37 Signals takes a stand and turns down a big client. (0) ¶
• This font is gorgeous. Ooooo I want it. (1) ¶
• Announcing Pricing & Licensing Changes to Movable Type, looks like they’ve hit a good balance. (1) ¶
• WordPress Hackers mailing list, for the technically inclined. (1) ¶
• Metafilter adds XFN support. (0) ¶
• I noticed that PhotoMatt.net turned 2 years old the other day. Maybe when I get a spare moment I can finish up the draft post I started last year when the site turned one. (5) ¶
• Okay already! Just the asides category and every category but asides. This sort of thing is really easy with a dynamic system. (3) ¶
• Robozilla, the DMOZ link checker. (1) ¶
• Nick is doing a scavenger hunt in return for Gmail invites. I’ve got a few extra invites now too. Interesting offers considered. I’ll throw in a free copy of WordPress. UPDATE: If you just email asking for an invite, you will be immediately deleted. Leave a comment with your interesting offer. (21) ¶
• On Sax, Love, and WordPress. An interview. Read and (hopefully) enjoy. (4) ¶
• On Wikipedia in China (or lack thereof): “You know, it’s not accessible from public internet. I have to find a proxy server to get that page. I know it’s just a click in a open internet world, but now i have to hate the knowledge blocker, it’s their own fault.” (1) ¶
• Wordpress, I LOVE YOU. Interesting post, but rambles a little bit and has two inaccuracies. Textpattern is under an open source license now. b2evo can import from MT. I like the name of his category, “Cerebral Interviews.” (2) ¶

• Feedback on blogs.sun.com. (0) ¶
• WordPress Blog Counter: 10,000 and counting. I remember when the list was so small each blog was listed and linked below the count. (It was just a few months ago.) (5) ¶
• Pictorialis II: Framed! Another one to watch. (2) ¶
• 2004-06-11 - 104,040 pings. Thank you! (3) ¶
• Sorry about the comment funkiness, while adding in the caching plugin I also upgraded to 1.3-pre-alpha, which has a different method of calling the comments template. (5) ¶

• Microsoft Research on web searching: Does Time Change All? (0) ¶
• Take the WaSP web survey, because your opinion will make a difference to what the organization does in the future. (3) ¶

• Kicksology.net, an amazingly well-done site dedicated to basketball shoes. (3) ¶
• A fresh look at the waterfall. Hat tip: Charles Miller. (0) ¶

• “I love love love WP’s link manager” (1) ¶
• “TangognaT: I made another wordpress blog and something awful happened!” That’s life. (2) ¶
• New WordPress bug tracker (3) ¶
• Shelley finally snapped. ;) (1) ¶
• Why XHTML, a classic from Tantek. (0) ¶
• Just added support for Feed Burner to Ping-O-Matic. Seems like an interesting server, but it would be even cooler if they adopted a URI scheme like FreeCache. (0) ¶
• Over 1 Million Served! (1) ¶
• Bruce Sterling on his post-SxSW part. I was there, but now feel like I missed a lot. Hat tip: Joe Clark. (1) ¶
• Well it looks like I won’t be recording with the Calvin Owens Blues Orchestra in two weeks. The person I was replacing in the band showed up to the rehearsal and it turns out there had been a misunderstanding with he band leader. I’m still going to be joining the band in a few weeks, but I won’t be on their upcoming CD. (1) ¶

• “The XML content sink is non-incremental, so, all XML documents start laying out only after the entire content model has been constructed.” That includes XHTML documents sent with application/xhtml+xml. You just can’t win. Hat tip: Henri Sivonen. (1) ¶
• Pop the champagne! Ping-o-Matic has broken a million pings in the two weeks or so that we’ve been counting. Keep the pings coming. :) (3) ¶
• Harris County District Clerk Jury Services Page (4) ¶
• If these new display rumors pan out they look mighty tasty. (2) ¶
• This looks very promising. (0) ¶
• Because of the size of the photolog, I had to break it up and move everything over by hand. However now it is badly out of order. The thought of manually reordering 282 albums is terrifying. I need a way out. I’m watching this thread closely. (2) ¶
• Rannie is in the middle of his Blogger Week pictures and today I make an appearance. Thanks Rannie. :) (1) ¶
• Well hello there. Welcome to the new server. (7) ¶
• Staticize Plugin for Wordpress. Drop in your plugins directory, create a directory for it to put stuff, and activate. Instant on-demand caching. I’m going to try this out here as soon as I finish the server move. (The photolog may be broken for a few hours.) (4) ¶
• I just finished reading Budget Design: Increase Profit by Improving Process by Dan Rubin and Dider Hilhorst. It’s free for a week ($9 later) so now’s a good time to grab it. It was enjoyable and well-executed with lots of valuable insight. Highly recommended. (2) ¶
• Microsoft Expression, a free vector image tool for Macs and PCs. Hat tip: Cheryl Wise. (1) ¶
• It seems for blogs.sun.com WordPress was considered at one point, but they decided to go with the Java product Roller instead. Too bad, because their feeds seem strange, they have terrible URIs, and I have no idea what’s the permalink for a page. Anyway. (4) ¶
• Brian Alvey on periodic table usage. His problems sound like nothing that couldn’t be fixed with a little overflow and some non-float layout tricks. The WIN sites really need a makeover, or a markover, because it looks like tag soup to me. “My readers are more important than the year I’ll spend in purgatory for using a single table in an otherwise modern layout.” Say three Our Zeldmans and you should be alright. (Another note: WIN sites don’t support pingback or trackback yet?) (0) ¶

• Using public keys for SSH authentication. Do it. (2) ¶
• Chris Davis has put together an alternate admin UI for WordPress. He modifies a few of the files though, which could make upgrading a real pain. (0) ¶
• Noel goes to Japan (and blogs it with WordPress). Unicode support should come in handy. (0) ¶
• I really, really like Nutella. (7) ¶
• Gmail invites. The only thing I get on my Gmail account (mmmmmm@gmail.com) are people begging for invites, which has gotten very old very fast. It’s almost as bad as the people who stumble across my old Orkut entry and feel it’s my duty to invite them. I’ve given out one account so far, and it was to Simon. (10) ¶
• Question for MT to WP converts: “To those of you who have converted, or who are thinking of converting - what plugin/hack/thing-a-ma-jig did you used to have for MT that you wish you could have now. I think there is very little (if anything at all?!) that I did in MT that couldn’t be done as easily (if not EASIER!) in WordPress. So, while I can’t say I’ll promise to get to everything right away, I’d like to re-create as many tutorials as possible for WordPress.” (0) ¶
• Scoble visits an amazingly high tech church. (3) ¶
• 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. (0) ¶
• Brad Choate’s Key Values Plugin for MT. I’ll have to look at how this compares to WordPress’ built-in custom fields functionality. (0) ¶
• 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.” (0) ¶
• 10 Reasons Why English is so Difficult to Translate (0) ¶
• Nikolai recommends ABC, or Yet Another Bittorrent Client. (0) ¶
• 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. (5) ¶
• Adam does CDF for WordPress. Is there anything we don’t support? (2) ¶
• 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. (1) ¶
• 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. (3) ¶
• 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. (5) ¶
• 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. :) (1) ¶
• Why the FCC should die. Declan in rare form. (3) ¶
• 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 (4) ¶
• Born to Plog. Classic. (0) ¶
• Cory on Life Hacks 2. (0) ¶
• I seem to be in between Wonkette and Belle de Jour, whatever that means. (2) ¶
• For those that missed it, ScriptyGoddess is running on WordPress now. (0) ¶
• 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. (1) ¶

• Enterprising girl in Singapore is offering WordPress installations for $5, and pledges to donate half. (0) ¶
• Scot Hacker on WordPress: “Not prepared for something this polished and smooth.” (0) ¶

• Quick and easy emerge guide. (1) ¶
• TV hath charms to soothe the savage breast. (0) ¶
• Shelley’s Parable of the Languages, a re-run, but one of those re-runs that makes you feel nice and fuzzy. (0) ¶
• 66,639 pings on Ping-O-Matic yesterday, let’s see if we can beat that today. :) I rewrote the pinger deamon in Python, because the old PHP one was crashing the system on a regular basis. The new one is amazingly light, and was ridiculously easy to write. So now Ping-O-Matic is powered by PHP, Python, Perl, and caffeine. Right tool for the right job. (1) ¶
• I’m not sure why they’re still working on a WordPress Blacklist when that functionality is built in to 1.2 in a very robust fashion. At this point patches to improve the included blacklist/moderation would be more useful to the average user, I think. (1) ¶
• Work-safe art, John Ashcroft would approve. (1) ¶
• RSS 2.0 specification clarifications. This looks simple and effective, two things I like. If this goes through I’ll update WordPress’ RSS import to follow these guidelines. (0) ¶
• Harry Potter 3 was fun. I could see it again. (4) ¶
• WordPress subscribe to comments plugin from Jennifer. Upload two files, add one line to your template, and activate the plugin on your admin page. Beautiful. (2) ¶
• Fellow WP developer Alex has released his cursor-aware quicktag code under the LGPL. This is one of my very favorite features of WordPress, and its ease of use is one of the main reasons I haven’t adapted a meta-language like Markdown personally. (1) ¶
• Tanya — Raving Lunatic: “At one point he said “they can have my organs after I’m dead. Not before,” and I found myself thinking, “well that’s perfectly sensible. I can get behind that."” (0) ¶
• I could enjoy these more if I cared for the design of the site itself. Sequels always have trouble. (11) ¶
• Meet The New Blog—Same As The Old Blog. “In other words, dear comment spammers and trolls, you are both now officially extinct. The asteroid has hit, and you are a herd of triceratops. Time to die.” Aaron doesn’t dig the template structure. (2) ¶
• Derek Featherstone: One Word: ImPressive. “OK, I admit it. I’m on the WordPress bandwagon.” When did we become a bandwagon? Derek outlines several reasons why he chose WordPress, including its syntax, templates, and learnability. He has a nice clean design over there as well. Congrats and welcome to the family. :) (2) ¶
• PearPC, a PowerPC Architecture Emulator. My fake OS X Sony laptop can finally be complete. At the very least it’d be useful for debugging Safari and Mac IE problems. I’ll try to install it next week. (0) ¶
• Ping-o-Matic did over 60,000 pings yesterday. I just finished rewriting the pinging engine to make it even faster. Are you pinging it yet? (5) ¶
• Jeffrey on the new Glassdog and the web. Happy ninth birthday. HTML wasn’t easy enough, and it isn’t getting any easier. Blogs aren’t anything special, they’re just a function of software that makes it easy to maintain content. Compare the usability of the top 3 blog packages with the top 3 “content management systems.” Blogging software is the simplest mechanism for “In-depth explorations of every imaginable topic.” That’s the revolution. (2) ¶
• “Odd what you find when you decide to just follow comment link after comment link - why do some people seem to think that to use WordPress you must know PHP ?” (4) ¶
• Jill/txt is having some problems switching to WordPress, maybe we can help? Two documentation pages that come to mind are styling lists and The Loop. (0) ¶
• A few useful Windows keyboard shortcuts. I remember seeing a very comprehensive list somewhere, but I can’t find it right now. (3) ¶
• WP contributor Podz: “The RSS feeds from here have been stopped.” My thoughts? That ship has sailed. Despite what I’ve said in the past, to many bandwidth still matters. (2) ¶
• Harry Fuecks on WordPress. I have learned so much from Harry over the years, quite an inspiration. Hat tip: Thomas Maas. (0) ¶
• “I really wonder how does Matt ever go thru all the articles that he links.” Also thoughts on activating and deactivating plugins. Hat tip: Alex. (3) ¶
• How to set up your own private CVS repository, this is almost exactly what I would have written if I had the time. Excellent walkthrough. If you’re not using version control yet, why? (2) ¶
• Jay Allen, From Troll to Doppelganger. For what it’s worth, I ran the IP on the forums and no posts have been made to the WP support forums from that IP. (8) ¶
• Kitten’s Captchas for the blind? May be more accessible, but just as annoying. I wonder what Joe will think of this. (1) ¶
• Keith on Web Standards ROI. Show me the money! (0) ¶
• Periodic Table of Perl 6 Operators. I’ve got a big Perl project coming up, I need to start drinking the kool-aid. (Or something.) Hat tip: Jonas. (0) ¶
• Stephane Le Solliec’s weblog » WordPress powered blog up and running “I’ve worked enough with computers to know that nothing ever work on the first try, … is that WordPress thing defying Murphy’s law?” Hat tip: Ozh, who also writes in thta Stephane created Geoping and U-Blog. (0) ¶
• What I got out of this article is I really need to pick up a WRT54G. Hat tip: Mark Pilgrim via Slashdot. (1) ¶
• New WordPress Blog. “Having never used an out-of-the-box CMS before, I have been more than pleasantly surprised by the ease with which I have got a version of WP up and running. It really is a 5 minute install, and the code it produces slips into my CSS like a wide-boy into a Volkswagon Golf.” (1) ¶
• Robert: ” Oh, and everytime I meet an IE team member in the halls (which is quite often) I grab them by the shirt, give them a nugie, and ask them when they are gonna support standards.” It’s good to know the best and brightest are on the task. The IE Mac team did a wonderful job of supporting standards, why can’t the IE windows team keep up? (3) ¶
• “Sony has yet to find the magic song on Brion’s latest production, [Fiona] Apple’s new record. The album has been finished for months but sits on the shelves at the label as, Brion says, execs search for a single.” It’s no secret I’m a huge Fiona Apple fan, and a Jon Brion fan as well. His work with Brad Mehldau (Largo) was excellent. I really can’t wait for this album to come out. Hat tip: Michael. (0) ¶
• WordPress on the Wikipedia, I wonder who’s going around adding all this blogging stuff to the wikipedia? The site is looking excellent, not sure when they adopted that new style. Looks like a good CSS implementation, which makes perfect sense for an encyclopedia. (Not counting the weird page-within-a-page embedding thing which I suspect is an application error.) (2) ¶
• Lars Holst, Designing With Jazz Standards. I’ve always been inspired by Blue Note record covers and the design of Reid Miles. In fact Sarah got me a book that is nothing but Blue Note covers and I love it. (5) ¶
• Anne van Kesteren: Unicode support in WordPress — “As you can see in my previous post WordPress handles all kind or characters flawlessly.” (0) ¶
• You would expect much more from otherwise intelligent and rational people. I agree with Nick, “I’m not sure what the point of all of this is.” I’m glad none of the people actually writing software get caught up in this because then they wouldn’t have any time to do anything useful. (1) ¶
• Sony’s new Powerbook killer. I wish they would give a more meaningful refresh of the Z1 line, which I use. Aside aside: do they have the worst URIs and store or what? Also see their upcoming 1.7 pound notebook that looks gorgeous. (1) ¶
• Om Malik, noted tech writer, has made the switch to WordPress. “Word Press is very fast, nimble and is light weight. I see the bandwidth consumption is down, and so are the MySQL resources.” The path he took. (0) ¶
• WordPress now has 4623 inbound sources and 10232 inbound links, which according to my watchlist page ranks it at #7 in the technoratisphere. This site is #129. WP isn’t on the Technorati 100 because they filter out weblogging tools and other non-blog sites. (6) ¶
• The guy who made that giant chart everyone has seen ended up choosing WordPress for his own use. A very interesting read because he obviously is very familar with dozens of systems and goes into detail on why he made the choice he did. (0) ¶
• Victor Lombardi now uses WordPress. Look at how the information architects go crazy with sub-categories. I love it! (3) ¶
• WordPress: The Road Ahead. (1) ¶
• Moose courtship, why not? (2) ¶
• Jason Santa Maria sheares his design methodology. I think these types of posts are fascinating. Whenever I get a chance to talk to a designer I really admire this is one thing I always ask, as Jeffrey and Doug will attest from SxSW 2003. (0) ¶
• Yale Web Style Guide (0) ¶
• Ethan redesigns and discovers the good Word. (0) ¶
• Six Apart announces more changes to Movable Type license. That sounds like a good model for WordPress. (8) ¶
• Princeton professor and noted expert on Chinese economics left two drive-by comments on my blog the other day. I’m guessing he was searching for his name on Google and came across the entry. In any case, I’m flattered. If anyone needs a blog it’s that guy. (1) ¶
• Freshly stolen CSS? Is the Creative Commons enforcable? (4) ¶
• I was thinking about redesigning, but now it’s trendy. Love the new logo. I also love live redesigns, it really gives you a peek into the designers mind. I learned so much by watching Zeldman iterate his design a year or so ago. When I redesigned photomatt.net it was a live redesign, and it was pretty ugly at some points but I’m happy with how it turned out. Yellow is the new black. (4) ¶
• If I ever highlight comments the colors would differentiate just me and everyone else, because that’s the only hierarchy on this site. I’m no longer being auto-highlighted over at Dave’s, which is too bad because I thought my mezzoyellow.com joke was funny, but I don’t think manual highlighting is going to scale. Basing it on URI is dangerous at best, and the PHP code is… well I need to write more PHP articles for Digital Web. (4) ¶
• Molly’s new books is out. Why no Amazon link? Here we go: Buy Teach Yourself Movable Type in 24 Hours. (I’ve always wondered, does anyone ever binge on those books and do everything in one day?) (1) ¶
• Dave Shea redesigns, the new look is called “Proton.” (4) ¶
• Dean offers hosting, and pledges 10% of the fee to anyone who uses WordPress on it. Available for a limited time only. Those specs sound killer. You can’t deny that man’s flair. (8) ¶
• “Why are people moving to WordPress? I have absolutely no idea. I hate it.” Me too. (2) ¶
• Nikolai Nolan has posted his pictures from SxSW 2004. What’s funny is I know it’s going to kill him that I’m linkblogging this. As usual it has a novel design and presentation. Nikolai is the most underappreciated CSS guru and designer on the web. (5) ¶
• “It’s easier to upgrade from MT 2.6 to WordPress than it is from MT 2.6 to MT 3.0.” Usually I stay away from Slashdot comments, but these look pretty good. ;) (1) ¶
• WordPress gets slashdotted again. We aren’t even mentioned directly in the article this time but the traffic rush is much more intense. Things were very slow for a few minutes. (1) ¶
• Irony in your palm: WordPress PocketPC Theme. Anyone want to try this out and let me know how it looks? (2) ¶
• “I’m proud to announce the new and improved, Word/Image Count Plug-In for Wordpress 1.2.” Four steps. (1) ¶
• Rafe Colburn on Java and PHP. (0) ¶
• My honest opinion: Scrivs, we get it, you’re controversial. It’s a good way to get links, but use it too often and you become the designer who cried wolf and people start to tune out. Critiques are good, but there’s a difference between ranting, constructive criticism, and stop energy. Criticism between friends is usually just that, between friends. It takes on a whole new dimension when it’s in the public eye. (3) ¶
• Anne asks “May a webpage use H1 multiple times within the same page?” He helped me proof the new WordPress readme before the 1.2 release and mentioned this. (0) ¶
• Adam updates Textile 2 for WordPress. Apparently the plugin we included with 1.2 doesn’t have all the features the perl version does. We’ll have to roll this in. (3) ¶
• The pinging continues. If you haven’t set http://rpc.pingomatic.com/ to be your default ping in your blog software yet, why not? (1) ¶
• Nice Thunderbird theme called Charmel. Best I’ve used. Hat tip: Rick Yribe (4) ¶

• Shelley says, “It’s odd, but when I first switched from Movable Type to Wordpress, I also thought the interface was ‘unpolished’.” This is a common first impression but an uncommon lasting impression. What could be done to make WordPress a little snazzier for first-time users without compromising the speed and elegance long-time users appreciate? (21) ¶
• How to ping Ping-o-Matic in Movable Type. Nice looking blog too. (2) ¶
• JournURL is auto-pinging the Ping-o-Matic RPC interface by default. Awesome, and should result in much faster service for JournURL users. (1) ¶
• “ Even better the upgrade of the site to the new version is now complete. It took all of 30 seconds to do. Only well written software can make things that easy.” (0) ¶
• Brad Froehle » Switch to WordPress “Let me tell you that right now it’s the slickest thing I’ve used.” (0) ¶
• Zen, and the Art of Blogging » Upgraded to WordPress 1.2. “That’s right, they’re making it even easier for you to switch from your old blog software to WordPress.” (0) ¶
• This review could be in a good magazine it’s so thorough and surprisingly insightful for someone who has only been using WordPress for a bit. Not distributing language files was actually on purpose. Once more translatations are published and checked we’ll include a few of the most popular with the distribution and make the rest available for download. I’m always annoyed when I download a package where the language files are bigger than hte app itself, and I’m going to use one. (0) ¶
• Favorite PHP Editor, I realized again today that I have Dreamweaver open more than Thunderbird. It works, but it often feels clunky or like I’m fighting the program. I’m going to check out a few of the options from this thread. (4) ¶
• Tim Bray on Vonage. I’ve been happy with my Vonage phone, which I’ve had since around December. The only problem is it seems to have to go in front of my router, and the double NAT makes a lot of things tricky. Also my box is really tiny, not sure why he says they have to get smaller. (0) ¶
• “In a relatively short space of time, WordPress has evolved into the perfect blogging tool for the experienced web user, and even for the web novice.” (1) ¶
• My experiences writing Joel on Software, a post from 2000 when Joel was using Manilla to run his weblog. Replies from Brent Simmons, Wesley Felter, and Dave Winer. (0) ¶
• Matthew Thomas » Interface design in Wordpress 1.2. If you think the new options are nice, wait to you see some of the other stuff mpt is bugging me to do. :) We’re very lucky to have this guy around. Don’t believe anyone who tells you UI is easy. Matthew spent a lot of time designing everything and it took me an order of magnitude longer than I expected to implement most of it. (The last 10% will take even longer.) (0) ¶
• intraordinary » yes, it’s about time. “We’ve added so much stuff, it’s almost like a 2.0 version, except that your 1.0 templates should still work.” (0) ¶
• Wow, Photo Matt and WordPress are in the PubSub 100. How they work. (0) ¶
• Good Blimey! Wordpress 1.2 Final Released. “I’ve just now updated Good Blimey to the final version, and it was easy and quick. The past few days I’ve been messing around in Wordpress has left me nothing but impressed and sad that I didn’t install it earlier.” (0) ¶
• I almost forgot that Neowin uses WordPress for its events blog too. I count 36 authors on that blog, which fits perfectly in our licensing scheme. Hat tip: Sushubh. (2) ¶
• Neowin.net -> Comparative: WordPress versus Movable Type. Fair and balanced, and it made the front page of Neowin. (0) ¶
• “I just upgraded this site and it took me about 2 minutes!” (0) ¶
• WordPress Template Tags, just a taste of some of the new documentation. Kudos to Anne van Kesteren for his hard work on this one. (4) ¶

• Hixie’s Natural Log: Web Applications and Compound Documents, IMHO. Like Hixie ever has a humble opinion. ;) (0) ¶
• Former Colgate-Palmolive Consumer Affairs expert analyzes MT trackback feedback. Good read. I’m going to try to start classifying WordPress feedback. (0) ¶
• I’ve got your switching right here. I swear it’s for localization. (0) ¶
• Why I shouldn’t go to NY. Hat tip: the lovely Julie. (1) ¶
• URI, URL, and URN explained. Clearest thing I’ve read on the matter yet. (0) ¶
• “I’ve just upgraded my install of WP to the final release candidate of version 1.2.” (1) ¶
• Ping-o-Matic RPC pinging now available. Lose all that other stuff and put this in your blog tool now. More on this after the WordPress launch. (2) ¶
• Spider Bites. I got bitten by a spider but I’m not sure what kind. Luckily not one of the ones described on thta page. (0) ¶
• The Scripty Goddess has her first plugin up. With a simple tweak she could shave a step. I’m really digging the new WordPress plugin system. First of many to come from her? Bing! (1) ¶
• Phil checks out MT license. Aren’t most software licenses similarly gross and nasty? I suspect most of this was from a template of some sort. I read a Microsoft EULA once and had nightmares for weeks. The GPL isn’t bad. (3) ¶
• Anil on Movable Type pricing and Six Apart. It’s refreshing and touching to see such honest, heart-felt communication. (0) ¶
• Dinah discovers our secret plan for world domination. She must be taken care of now. We can’t let this get around. (0) ¶
• Joel on Software - Fire And Motion. While I was reading this I was interrupted 7 times. Wasn’t this in Office Space first? “In a week, I’d say I do about 15 minutes of real, actual work.” Any tips for making those minutes come more frequently? Hat tip: I can’t remember. (0) ¶
• Easy News Topics - RSS 2.0 Module aka RSS ENT. (0) ¶
• magistyk weblog » The Best Choice - Wordpress. “Only good things can come from these people.” (2) ¶
• Blogging For Fun & Profit. The HTML version could be a lot better. Is blogging for profit still blogging? (2) ¶
• Beyond The Template Engine. Any sufficently advanced templating engine approaches PHP in syntax and capabilities. Most are more trouble than they’re worth. (Disclaimer: I chose Smarty for a fairly large client project.) (3) ¶
• Good comparison of different PHP blogging tools. I don’t really consider Drupal a blogging tool though, and efforts to make it one have all seemed a little strained to me. Use the right tool for the job. See also: Incomplete WP feature list and what’s new in 1.2. (1) ¶
• The Move to Wordpress, and a sharp design too. “No re-building, no muss and no fuss.” One of my favorite things about linking to all these WP sites is the beautiful permalinks they use, which used to be the realm of just the blogging elite and heavy tweakers. (2) ¶
• Move away from MovableType? Jon Hicks, a designer I respect a great deal, contemplates WordPress. (2) ¶
• Super Scripty Goddesses choose WordPress. Can’t wait to see the cool stuff Jennifer comes up with. (0) ¶
• Think Tank Claims Torvalds Didn’t Write Linux, you couldn’t make this stuff up if you tried. (2) ¶
• Getting drafts right, because it’s the little things. (1) ¶
• Prom pictures that you were all asking for. Dig the outfits. (3) ¶
• Jeremy Shields on why he uses WordPress. “I really feel that WordPress has redefined the way a Weblog CMS should be” (1) ¶
• I wish I understood everything Marc writes because then I’d be a millionaire. But please, someone get that man a <blockquote>! (1) ¶
• Phil proves hyphens are cooler. This is—of course— how we do it in WP. I promise I’ll stop talking about WordPress in every post at some point. (4) ¶
• WordPress in Hindi. It’s the first full localization I’ve seen and it gives me chills. Congrats to Pankaj. (1) ¶
• LibraryPlanet.com » MT Keywords to WP Slugs. Something is funky with the CSS on this site, slows my browser to a crawl. (3) ¶

• “If smart, informed people are using b or i, it’s because they have made smart, informed decisions to do so.” (1) ¶
• DomainKeys could change email and the markup and CSS on that page is pretty decent. Hat tip: Jeremy Zawodny. (2) ¶
• Shelley on encoded PHP in EE and a cat in peril. (2) ¶
• Out Of The Rut, Into The Groove from Virulent Meme. “Uh-oh, Advocacy!” (1) ¶
• Ferrari digital camera in a gorgeous red. Hat tip: Nick Finck. (0) ¶
• Moving from Movable Type to WordPress by Carthik Sharma. (0) ¶
• Audioblog.com supports WordPress now. MetaWeblog API is nifty. Wasn’t there a free service that also did this? (4) ¶
• Pink is the new pink. I hadn’t done a design from scratch in a while. Hack-free CSS, two images. (2) ¶
• Mark switched, puts his money where his mouth is, and understands freedom. (1) ¶
• “Though Matt of Photo Matt fame is the primary developer of this product, if for some reason he decides he would rather spend his time photographing naked people holding fruit, he can; the project might slow for a bit, it won’t stop.” From Shelley. The whole article is worth a read. (2) ¶
• Simple backup tutorial using Perl on Windows or *nix. Hat tip: Forever Geek. (0) ¶
• Adam switches to WordPress. I promise this had nothing to do with my hosting him. (Though when he was beta testing MT3 I did notice some strange CPU spikes.) (0) ¶
• Eric talks about why he moved to WordPress. RSS import was a killer feature for him. (2) ¶
• Lauren Woods — What WordPress Does Right (7) ¶

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