links for 2007-07-22

  • Dave recently introduced himself to me and is going to help organize the rewriting of the Contact Form Plugin into the “Ultimate WordPress Contact Form” plugin! Lots of folks have provided help so we’re going to put this into Sourceforge!
  • Shel Israel shares a great interview with Nob Seki about blogging in Japan. It’s fascinating – sharing how two different cultures are using blogs in different ways. Did you know there are more Japanese blogs than English ones according to Technorati?
  • First in a series of jobs that don’t exist today but will come into being as the interactive industry matures.
  • I ordered a nice bright red 3XL WordPress t-shirt today! Woohoo!
  • Ask.com announced Friday that it will allow search users to control how and whether their searches are recorded, marking the first time a major search company has modified their data retention policy to make it user controllable.
  • CSS3 properties tests for webkit based browsers, including the iPhone
  • At an internal meeting for its sales force this week, Microsoft confirmed the code name and approximate timing for Windows Vista’s successor.
  • Here are the five regular expressions that I have found the most useful for day-to-day web programming tasks.
  • Nearly ten percent of companies have fired an employee for violating corporate blogging or message board policies, and 19 percent have disciplined an employee for the same infractions, according to a new survey from Proofpoint, a messaging security compan
  • At some point every project has to decide when legacy versions will no longer be supported. This is true of open source projects as well?as users of PHP4 are about to find out.
    (tags: php4 php support)
  • A man who told two women they were extremely beautiful was arrested on charges of harassment last week, Denver police said.
    (tags: news humor)
  • ScienceBloggers highlight their favorite science education sites for kids, some of which include animated games, interactive forums, and interviews with experts.
  • I’m a Prick- ENTP (66% Extraversion, 60% Intuition, 60% Thinking, 26% Judging)
  • Blogging is growing in unexpected ways in India. The Indian Police seems to have taken a liking to it. The Times Of India reported that Barmer Police of the state of Rajasthan have started their own blog.
  • With businesses and families spread out more and more, we?ve dug up 60+ sites that will help everyone be on the same page.
  • I was very pleased to see Google publicly wade into the upcoming FCC auctions for the 700MHz spectrum that will occur early next year…