Top 9 Records of 2004

“Van Lear Rose”, Loretta Lynn “A Ghost is Born”, Wilco “The Revolution Starts Now”, Steve Earle “Contraband”, Velvet Revolver “Hot Fuss”, The Killers “The Delivery Man”, Elvis Costello “Good News for People Who Love Bad News”, Modest Mouse “College Dropout”, Kanye West “Los Lonely Boys”, Los Lonely Boys Jimmy seemed to need some help remembering [...]

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JAVA_HOME on Mac OS X 10.5

I normally don’t mess with Java so this is likely a trivial point, I could very well be stating the most obvious of obvious things. The documentation for Amazon’s EC2 Web Service actually had a well written explanation, but who reads? Scanning the setup instructions I saw: Java. — Check, I got that Java JRE [...]

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Automatic “Awesompersands” » , Not a Sausage

From Patrick Haney, a JQuery technique to implement the ampersand method described at SimpleBits, “Use the Best Available Ampersand“. use jQuery to parse the DOM, find any character matching “&”, and wrap it in a tag with the appropriate class. Automatic “Awesompersands”

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Salesforce.com is not a substitute for communication

I recently received a nice, polite, relevant email from an account exec. who works for a Social Media company. No surprise there, a few weeks ago I went to a networking event this company was a sponsor. Nothing to weird right, they sponsored a great event, making it very affordable for a bunch of interesting [...]

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Everytime you add this to your email, a kitten dies.

Seriously, everytime I see one of these I feel icky. I don’t know, maybe don’t use color in your email, and done include three months of quoted correspondence below your signature might be a better place to start. Oh wait, here’s an idea, don’t email back “Thanks!” every time, my brain is part of the [...]

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The State of the Word

WordPres Zeigtgesit 2.6M WordPress.org Blogs Versions: v2.51, 2.6 – Secure release – 1.78M v2.3 – (Not a secure release) about ~500k PHP5 Adoption 2/3 of WP blogs are PHP5, when will WP stop supporting PHP4? (Stay with it until 10% or less are doing PHP4) Plugins stats 145. OpenID 24. AdSense Manager 12. Hello Dolly! [...]

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WP Screencasts

Just launched at #wordcamp San Francisco. Will take a look and comment later: http://wpscreencasts.com/

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Twitter Trends – #wordcamp

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WordCamp Links – Quick Notes

Twitter search, feed What is a good blog editor like Mars Edit but for the PC?Cuzillion – performance testing Firebug lite 1.2 HTTP Watch FireFox beta coming soon Operator microformat observation What if your readers could search you and everything you’ve created for answers they’d trust? Brad Feld Gigalogue – Next week… dev.gigaom.com Gigaomdaily Buddypress [...]

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SF 2008 WordCamp Schedule

Dead trees version handed out at registration. Anyone have a wiki to dump this into? San Francisco – 2008 – WordCamp User — Developer 9:30 SEO Mistakes Most Bloggers Make — DiSo, OAuth and more 10:00 Open Source Business Models — Even Faster Web Sites 10:50 Andy Skelton – A Musical Performance — N/A 11:00 [...]

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