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Resources for WordPress. WordPress is mentioned on the front page of Linux Journal this month.

# 16th September 2004, 10:05 pm

Hiring. No False Positives. Why Google and Microsoft have such high standards.

# 16th September 2004, 3:18 pm

Quicksilver: moving around and training yourself (via) More QuickSilver tips from Merlin, the world’s most useful blogger.

# 16th September 2004, 5:46 am

Edwards: No military draft if Democrats win (via) Is the draft about to become a campaign issue?

# 16th September 2004, 1:58 am

This Old Blog, Part I. Tom at Gadgetopia has some great thoughts on combinign a blog with its admin interface.

# 16th September 2004, 1:16 am

Critical Mozilla Vulnerabilities Fixed in New Versions. Various buffer overflows, fixed in Firefox PR 1.0.

# 15th September 2004, 9:49 pm / mozilla

Microsoft warns of poisoned picture peril. Now opening a JPEG can get you in trouble.

# 15th September 2004, 9:47 pm

Spread Firefox. They’re aiming for 1,000,000 downloads in 10 days.

# 15th September 2004, 4:30 pm / firefox

FreyaSX (via) Open source full-text search engine, claims indexing speeds of 100,000 words/second.

# 15th September 2004, 4:18 pm

A9 1.0! (via) An Amazon insider gives the skinny on the new A9.

# 15th September 2004, 6:08 am

Willie the Warlock (MP3) (via) Best. Song. Ever. We’ve been listening to this at work all week.

# 14th September 2004, 10:47 pm

isnoop.net gmail invite spooler (via) A great way to offload your excess invites.

# 14th September 2004, 7:13 pm

RSS bookmark feeds. Thoughts on live bookmarks for bookmark sharing from Paul Hammond.

# 14th September 2004, 5:20 pm / paul-hammond

Mozilla Firefox—Live Bookmarks (via) Whoa! RSS support built in to Firefox, with a very smart interface.

# 14th September 2004, 4:23 pm / firefox, mozilla

RFC 3229: Delta encoding in HTTP (via) A solution to the RSS bandwidth problem?

# 13th September 2004, 11:09 pm / http, rfc, rss

Homestar Runner Wiki. Recently upgraded to MediaWiki.

# 13th September 2004, 10:20 pm

Poynter Online—E-Media Tidbits. Rob Curley (my boss) gets a good write-up from Poynter.

# 13th September 2004, 7:29 pm

The DRM Debacle. “... the whole idea is broken and going to cause severe damage and pain for content vendors, technology vendors, and ordinary folks who just want to go on with life.”

# 11th September 2004, 7:08 am

webkit2png 0.3. I finally started playing with this: it’s fantastic.

# 11th September 2004, 12:14 am

PDF Browser Plugin. No more PDFs littering my desktop on OS X.

# 10th September 2004, 11:11 pm

Are you better off now than you were four years ago? (via) It’s the economy, stupid! Vicious employment graphs, available as postcards.

# 10th September 2004, 10:32 pm / economics

Dynamic RSS Feeds and Bandwidth Consumption. A neat solution to badly behaved aggregators from Nick Bradbury.

# 10th September 2004, 7:36 am

Photo Matt: RSS Bandwidth Usage. Matt makes the case for RSS scaling just fine if you’re smart about it.

# 10th September 2004, 2:48 am / bandwidth, matt-mullenweg, rss, scaling

lgf: Bush Guard Documents: Forged (via) I tried this myself in MS Word on OS X—the spacing lined up exactly.

# 9th September 2004, 9:52 pm

XML.com: Wrestling HTML. Uche Ogbuji on ways to convert HTML to XML using Python.

# 9th September 2004, 7:51 am

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