WP plugin: Bad Behavior 2 This new version of Bad Behavior has a bunch of new features including faster code, variable strictness of traffic filtering, lesser usage of the database (which is really important for higher traffic sites) and a new wrapper API. Bad Behavior is now also available for ExpressionEngine, MediaWiki and generic non-database mode for any PHP script, forum, guestbook, Movable Type, etc. Thanks Michael va email.

WP Theme: Fleur is a 2 column widget friendly fixed width layout. It makes use of subtle colour and overall has a clean blog layout structure.

Find Me A Cure: I finally got my dad to blog about something that he cares deeply about and has a lot of good information on. I have been practicing yoga on and off all of my life and have been coached and coaxed by my dad to try alternative forms of medication, treatment and therapy for as long as I can remember. Some of these have worked wonders for me, others have failed to make much of a difference. But I trust his judgement, appreciate his knowledge and I really value his opinions on yoga, alternative medication and therapy. My father is a complete Internet newbie. You could almost call him a perpetual newbie since most concepts of the Internet are beyond what he wants to learn or cares to understand. I made him buy his first computer for our Calcutta home approximately six years ago and he has […]

Online Regex Tester Test your PCRE and POSIX dialect regular expressions online with this handy AJAXified page. It seems to break in Firefox.

Commentful A coComment wannabe.

Newshutch: Web based, AJAXified news aggregator that shows some promise but is still buggy. I tried importing my feeds and it died with a rails error. I also wish they had a daily digest page like so many other news readers. I do like the interface and the initial speed though that might decay with users and/or popularity.

WP Theme: Frost Two column “frost” version of the Fauna theme for WordPress.

The blogosphere is not credible I love this quote from the author … The blogosphere by itself has no credibility. Individual bloggers build their own credibility.