A (hopefully) non-instrusive redesign to fix some complaints I have received about the blog. The categories are better described, the top navigation gets you to the important parts of the site and the ads have (again, hopefully) become less obtrusive. There is one more feature that I would like to add which is a news section. That is currently being worked on and should be online soon. I know I have made some more mistakes in trying to fix what was broken, so I would appreciate feedback.

I am sure you have heard this news over and over again and Photomatt is about to talk about the article over at the dev blog, but I have to gloat over it a little. WordPress was featured in the most recent edition of the Linux Journal and even showed up on the cover. The review was done relatively well with a focus on the command line installation aspect (being Linux Journal and all). Well done WordPress team! Read the complete article here.

… you post the wrong article on the wrong blog. … your family prefers to interact with you through your blogs. … you met your girlfriend/boyfriend through a blog. … your “blog community” is much, much larger than the number of people you know in real life. … you consider yourself an “alternative journalist”. … you start your day by checking your blog stats. … a day without blogging seems like a month without food. … your feedreader is open all day. … you get more “approve this comment” email messages than spam. … you know what RSS stands for and you know how weak the medium is. … people worry about you when you do not post anything for a day. … work is the little time you spend in between writing on your blog and IRC. … my pagerank is bigger than yours! … invalid XHTML is a […]

This is a modification of the 404 function found at NSLog. This is tweaked such that if a page is not found on your WordPress blog, the part of the URI beyond the domain name is stripped off and fed into the WordPress search function. If only one post if found, that post is directly loaded. Otherwise the whole list of posts is loaded and displayed. Installation is really simple. Just copy the code below and paste it into a file called 404.php. Then open up the .htaccess in the root of your blog and add the following on a new line: ErrorDocument 404 /404.php /*Code for 404.php*/ <? $search_term = substr($_SERVER[‘REQUEST_URI’],1); $search_term = urldecode(stripslashes($search_term)); $search_url = ‘http://weblogtoolscollection.com/index.php?s=’; $full_search_url = $search_url . $search_term; $full_search_url = preg_replace(‘/ /’, ‘%20′, $full_search_url); $full_page = implode(“”, file($full_search_url)); print_r($full_page); die(); ?> EDIT: Replace the ‘http://weblogtoolscollection.com/index.php?s=’ with your blog name to get the right search results. […]

I have been using .Mac webmail a lot recently and am quite dissappointed with it. It is not even worth my time trying to analyze why it is not up to par. Anyone know of any plans to revamp the service?

This blog has come a long way since I started it in October of last year. Today it turned the odometer at 100,000 unique visitors (unique IPs) and I am proud of the achievement. This blog has become my vehicle of development, of keeping in touch with the communities I am involved in and helping people. To think that this started as a pet project on my Linux server at home over a puny cable modem. This occassion has also coincided with the mention on the WordPress development blog and I really appreciate the attention. But I would like to share this wealth of visitors and the breadth of coverage that this blog enjoys. While you are here, if you were hoping to write on this blog, I welcome your articles and comments. Just register and shoot me an email with your intentions and I will give you permission to […]