This is the last time, I swear

There's no reason I should still be posting about wordpress.com. I guess I'm just annoyed that I ever thought it was a good place to blog/journal/post. The exclusion of anyone who's not a child or a christian has reached a fever pitch. They've just released the ...

Buckshot, EP. 2: Social Networking sites

There is no 'the next myspace'. there will be other sites that replicate pieces of that experience.

case 1 - virb.com: since signing up, i have been bombarded by friend requests from bands, and have visited their pages to find customized pages and music samples. this is ...

Trust and the pink ghetto

The Napoleon-Clarke Law:

Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice
-Paul Ciszek

It's amazing to me how much wordpress.com has grown. what used to be the realm of a few geeks in need of akismet keys has turned into a real competitor to livejournal and typepad. ...

Theme Repositories Redux

Disconnected.sf.net is now mostly operational. it even runs wordpress. w00t. now i have an official demo site. there's no outbound traffic, so i can't run akismet, or get the latest wordpress out of SVN, but i can get my own theme out of SVN. actually, ...

Hey, I was doing research here!

The "what's the worst theme?" thread got slammed shut sometime yesterday. presumably for being overly critical of the service provided here. (queue eye roll) Of course, whichever admin made that decision was presumably attempting to protect the egos of said theme designers. Although i'm sure ...