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This method of upgrading Wordpress using Subversion is actually much easier on the brain cells than their standard method. I’m not sure why I hadn’t heard of it before.

Google sponsored CMU project on rethinking and reinventing Social Networking software.

Coolest thing I’ve ever seen demo-ed by MS Research.

Makers of Enso, a verbose less symbolic version of Quicksilver.

For making tumblelogs, which are short-attention span blogs. Which is redundant. Was a neologism for this actually necessary?

Wasn’t he king of the Hill People? Oh, wait, that was Lothar. Yes obscure Mike Meyers. The right people will get it.

The nice thing about Open Source development is that you get to use nice things, something that’s just not possible in corp-orama.

Get RSS feeds in Outlook. Free-er than Newsgator. [via gtdwannabe]

“Hanson on Rails”:http://www.oreillynet.com/lpt/a/6170:
bq.:http://www.oreillynet.com/lpt/a/6170 Rails is opinionated software. It eschews placing the old ideals of software in a primary position. One of those ideals is flexibility—the notion that we should try to accommodate as many approaches as possible, that we shouldn’t pass judgement on one form of development over another. Well, Rails does, and I believe [...]

Kick ayuss. Nicely played.

‘cept Clippy of course.

“Myghty”:http://www.myghty.org/: A Python templating library based on “HTML::Mason”:http://www.masonhq.com/. Somewhere in the early history of the _roll your own_ period of this blog, I used (and loved using) Mason. Hence this _Mad founding fathers’ religion_ prop!

“NINJAM”:http://www.ninjam.com over the internets. Jam with others over the internet using Ogg Vorbis compression. Imagine being able to have a _pickup_ jam session with anyone who happens to be online at the same time you are. Niceness. From the makers of Winamp, Gnutella, mlIpod, etc. Ok, really Justin Frankel.

While scrutiny and interest in “Rails”:http://www.rubyonrails.org is currently the flamefest du jour among the _my language/framework is greater than your language/framework_ cabal, another Ruby project that has garnered acclaim and considerably less controversy has to be “Instiki”:http://www.instiki.org, a Ruby-based wiki. It is the easiest, most elegant and least annoying wiki I have installed and it [...]

Note to vim users: This is a great tip on how to use vim as an external editor in any windows application that understands the control-a keyboard command. This means you can effectively use vim whenever you are editing a textarea in your browser or replying to an email in Outlook, although the latter is [...]

Full-length screen shots in OSX

iTunes on my Powerbook rocks my world. iTunes on my T41 does not. ml-iPod is a plugin that lets you control your iPod through winamp 5. Booyahs ensue.

Use SubEthaEdit as the source viewer for Safari.

Picasa is now a free download. I haven’t tried it, but the interface looks as simple to use as iPhoto. As a matter of opinion, I would go so far as to say they nicked iPhoto’s look and feel, as Cheney would say, big time.