July 2007
83 posts
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William of Ockham: I have one last invite for Pownce and 5 invites for Skitch. Let me know if anyone out there wants those. Oh, I have invites to Doostang, too (via Twitter / William of Ockham)
William of Ockham: tidying up. nag of a boss’s wife told me to do so (via Twitter / William of Ockham)
William of Ockham: tidyin gup (via Twitter / William of Ockham)
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William of Ockham: skyping (via Twitter / William of Ockham)
William of Ockham: another monday morning another work week (via Twitter / William of Ockham)
William of Ockham: I loved Firebird Russian Restaurant. The salmon and the dessert were wonderful! (via Twitter / William of Ockham)
We Got Big Button
We just launched our redesigned homepage. The first thing you will notice, at least if you’re not logged in, is the register button is REALLY BIG now. If you were ever drunk and tried to hit that button but missed, you now have to be at least 30% drunker than before to miss it.
But the news even bigger than the button is the new thing we’re currently calling “news departments” which shows the...
Get a Hot T-shirt
Have you every wondered what the world would be like if you were wearing a WordPress t-shirt?
Look at how happy they are! They’re red with excitement, and your friends will be red with envy if you get one.
At the official shop.wordpress.net you can order the new red t-shirt in either manly or girlie styles and they ship almost anywhere in the world. The shirts are high-quality American...
William of Ockham: Megu was awesome. The Kobe beef was incredible! (via Twitter / William of Ockham)
William of Ockham: Having lunch at Megu today! (via Twitter / William of Ockham)
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William of Ockham: Having a shack attack from the shake shack (via Twitter / William of Ockham)
William of Ockham: Hello me twtterers! it’s been a while! (via Twitter / William of Ockham)
William of Ockham: DaRKhaBIts (via Twitter / William of Ockham)
William of Ockham: that rain… wow… (via Twitter / William of Ockham)
William of Ockham: Frantically trying to finish texts! (via Twitter / William of Ockham)
William of Ockham: Twitter for your iphone available at http://www.pockettweets.com (via Twitter / William of Ockham)
William of Ockham: Reading: “PocketTweets: Twitter For Your iPhone” (http://tinyurl.com/2rbmcg) (via Twitter / William of Ockham)
William of Ockham: hello, test, test (via Twitter / William of Ockham)
Your WordPress Is In My FaceBook
Blogs are one of the ways the Internet has fostered greater communication among people than ever before. Social network sites like Facebook provide a more structured way to keep up with specific people. Wouldn’t it be great if you could mix the two?
With the new WordPress.com Facebook App you can do exactly that.
In this app you’ll find the core blog features you’d expect: publishing posts,...
Did you see a renewal notice in your dashboard?
Just over a year ago we started offering premium upgrades on the blogs here as annual subscriptions. Unfortunately, the time is fast approaching when those early subscriptions are going to expire.
There’s no need to worry yet. You’ll be given a month’s notice that your upgrade is about to expire. When you login to your blog a message will be displayed at the top of every Dashboard page urging...
Click a Day Stats Refresh
Have you ever pressed an elevator button more in the hope that it would go faster? A street crossing button?
I do that all the time, even though rationally I know that there is no connection between the two. It’s probably the same part of my brain that sometimes buys a lotto ticket when I fill up my car.
Here on WordPress.com I did the same thing, but on the stats screen. Sometimes there would...
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William of Ockham: Reading: “The Artful Life” (http://tinyurl.com/37z7pu) (via Twitter / William of Ockham)
William of Ockham: Sending from cell (via Twitter / William of Ockham)
William of Ockham: Looking at DEpthcore (via Twitter / William of Ockham)
William of Ockham: My twitters get posted really well on Facebook, but not my Pownces… odd (via Twitter / William of Ockham)
Windows Live Writer FTW
It’s a little known fact, but deep within the labyrinths of Microsoft there is a team of rogue ninjas making a fantastic Windows blogging client.
Obviously some of you have already discovered the coolness that is Windows Live Writer because we found it was our most used blogging client, but XML-RPC usually accounts for fewer than 10% of our posts so I thought it would be nice to introduce more...
William of Ockham: servers, servers, servers! (via Twitter / William of Ockham)
William of Ockham: I love sawmill gravy! (via Twitter / William of Ockham)
William of Ockham: I love my multilingual twitters (via Twitter / William of Ockham)
Open Source Web Development Tutorials - Dev Shed →
Theme Wednesday: Redoable Lite
Here’s a smart new theme, a “lite” version of Dean J Robinson’s Redoable:
It features a stylish color scheme, customizable header images, and a sidebar column for widgets. Pages are linked in a menu bar just below the header. To keep things simple we’ve left out some of Redoable’s more advanced options, but kept its essential ingredients intact.
You’ll find it listed on your dashboard’s...
http://seaweedville.miniville.fr/
Come grow my French Village and start your own. Seaweedville grows just by your visits!
William of Ockham: Reading: “Seaweedville - Miniville - Come grown my french villlage and start your own!” (http://tinyurl.com/3aopyr) (via Twitter / William of Ockham)
Submit for Review
We have a nice little workflow improvement for those of you who use the Contributor role on your blogs. Contributors can now submit their posts for review by an Editor. When Contributors are done editing their post, they press the “Submit for Review” button to put the post in the Editor’s pending review queue.
Editors can list all of the posts that are pending review on the Manage Posts...
Please grow my French village by visiting this site http://seaweedville.miniville.fr/ and build your own free village!
William of Ockham: Please grow my French village by clicking on this link - http://seaweedville.miniville.fr/ (via Twitter / William of Ockham)
William of Ockham: Reading: “Seaweedville - Miniville” (http://tinyurl.com/3aopyr) (via Twitter / William of Ockham)
Feed Oddities
Some people noticed some blog feeds that were showing posts from other blogs. Thanks in part to their quickly blogging the issue, we located and resolved the problem. A few people concluded that their blog’s feed had been compromised. We just wanted to let you know that there was no hacking involved.
The problem was caused by a bug in a new piece of software we are building to keep your blogs...
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Avatar powered recent comments
If you have the recent comments widget on your blog you might have noticed a small change to it this afternoon. Now, next to each comment link is the avatar of the person who left the comment.
By default the widget will display 48×48px avatars but if it’s not to your tastes, then visit your widgets page and you can change the size of those images, and even disable them if that suits.
Happy...
William of Ockham: they’re all on Pownce? (via Twitter / William of Ockham)
William of Ockham: http://tinyurl.com/25hxoq (via Twitter / William of Ockham)