CommonBits Torrent Hosting for Blogs: For bloggers that want to upload large files, audio or video and host them as torrents. CommonBits also offers personal channels and RSS feeds for hosted files. Via Email: Thanks Jeff

Free Opera 8.5 Again: Only valid today. Thanks SlickDeals [UPDATE] Looks like Opera is free as of today, forever.

This blog (along with a couple of other services) will be migrated over to a new server over the end of this week and into next. Please bear with me while I put it into place to make sure that this blog is faster and not down as often. During the move, WordPress will be upgraded to the bleeding edge (again) and I will move some of my hacks and modifications into the 1.6 branch of code.

Thesis on the Social Phenomena of Blogs: Interesting and detailed read. Seasoned bloggers might find the information to be a tad cliche’d.

WordPress Fitted Caps: I am dreaming of WordPress fitted caps for $10 plus shipping. Anyone in for a few? (I need at least 4 orders) [EDIT] Now I wonder if Copyright prevents me from ordering those caps.

What in the world is 2o7.net and why is it slowing down my web browsing considerably for the past few weeks?? After doing some research, I find that 2o7.net is actually Omniture and many of the sites that are slow to load are running some kind of web analytics software called SiteCatalyst from Omniture. Now I find that the Omniture nameservers do not want to resolve 2o7.net or 207.net as long as the request comes from the x.x.x.x subnet (my ISPs class B) Grrrrrr. Why would a web company looking to analyze visitors block a whole class B from their DNS servers??

Google Blog Search : Search blogs (exclusively) through Google. Is this the first step to isolate that arena from search results?

Free web statistics? Do not count on it! Ouch! Removed Webstats4u. Do you still get popups?