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siblogs.Meet2006

Slovenian bloggers are meeting up tomorrow in Ljubljana for an evening of chat, food, drink and culture. If you blog, and are in Slovenia, come along. More details:http://www.siblogs.com/meet2006/ Don’t forget to drop an email to the address on that page if you are attending.

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WordPress+Cork=Good Podcast

The lead developer of WordPress, Donncha O’Caoimh, is a Corkonian. You learn something new every day. Nice work Donncha. Matthew Mullenweg, the founding developer of WordPress, was in Ireland recently visiting and they got together for a podcast interview with Tom Raftery at Podleaders. More on the podcast… I haven’t listened to it yet, but [...]

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Location on Slovnenian blogs map

Slovenian Blogs Map

I just got myself located on the Slovenian blogs map. There I am all alone in Dolenjska in the east. This fine interactive map was put together by David Vidmar at Si.blogs. Go check it out. Just close the bubble on top to reveal the map underneath, and click on the markers to find out [...]

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Planet Mozilla Scraping

It seems like some of my old posts are being re-indexed in Planet Mozilla’s feed with a time stamp of today. At this point, I don’t know why. My feed looks fine. So if it looks like I am having a particularly prolific day of posting, well it is not the case! Er, sorry.

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ActiveState Blogs Online

I see that ActiveState now has some blogspace going for their employees. If you have not already heard of them, the company (based in Vancouver, Canada), produces some excellent tools for dynamic languages, primarily Perl and Python. They use Mozilla as the platform for the Komodo IDE. I worked at ActiveState back in 2000/2001. This [...]

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Technorati Spam

No, not unsolicited emails from technorati, but rather how spammers are using blog tagging to boost their linkage. Their are multiple side-effects of course, including dilution of tag categories, and feed spam. Read more about it – The Dark Side of Technorati Tags.

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Ruffling Some PR Feathers

Tim Bray has started a lively discussion in the blogosphere with his take on the brave new world of corporate PR. Go check it out — The New Public Relations.

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Blogging From Your Sickbed

[via Martha O' Connor] The title refers to folks with sickness and diseases blogging about their condition, rather than a guy with a broken leg sitting up in the hospital bed with a laptop (which I would probably do if I was stuck in hospital – I somehow doubt most hospitals are getting high speed [...]

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Is Blogging Good for your Career?

Tim Bray seems to think so, listing ten reasons. He then goes on to talk about people who picked up on it, including some interesting dissenting views over at Tao of Mac. In general my view lies somewhere in the middle. I think blogging is a good thing, but may or may not further your [...]

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Permalinks

I updated my Permalink structure, and now direct links to all the archives are broken. Oh well! UPDATE: No great mystery, it appears mod_rewrite is not installed on my server, so a workaround is in place and it’s humming again.

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