The Karma of Bug Killing. “We’re all pretty quick with the fly swatter and the folded newspapers.” ∞
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The Software is Wrong, Not the People by Joe Flood about the DC meetup the other day. ∞
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The FCC just released their first plugin for WordPress (a faceted search widget) and writes about why. Does your organization have a cool plugin you’ve written but not released yet? I know we do. Hopefully they will get the plugin in the repo soon. ∞
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Fifty Million
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As noted on TNW and Adweek, yesterday we passed over 50,000,000 websites, blogs, portfolios, stores, pet projects, and of course cat websites powered by WordPress. I had the good fortune to celebrate this milestone with a few hundred WordPressers at WordCamp Montreal yesterday. (During my Town Hall I wasn’t aware we had passed the number until someone shouted from the audience.) It’s always fun to pass a big round number and over the weekend many libations were consumed with friends old and new, but ultimately the press has always been more concerned with those top-line numbers than we have in the WordPress community. More sites being created is a good benchmark for our adoption, but ultimately WordPress matters not for the blogs it creates but for the lives it affects. We have some huge opportunities this year, particularly around making our software more accessible to the next 50 or 500 million people who want to have a voice online, something I hope to talk more about at WordCamp San Francisco next month.
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Memeburn has a new interview up: The future of WordPress: Q&A with founder Matt Mullenweg. ∞
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What Exactly Does Jarobi White, the Mysterious Fourth Member of A Tribe Called Quest, Actually Do? He has a WordPress blog, for one. 
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Check out this amazing story of a black macaque monkey that picks up a photographer’s camera and takes self-portraits. ∞
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Richard MacManus asks Is More Zen, Less Plus The Way to Go?. ∞
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As you may have seen, the WordPress community released version 3.2 “Gershwin” yesterday. Here’s the announcement video with some of the new features:
When you get a chance also check out MT’s post about the Design of 3.2. ∞
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Alaska Day 7
Leaving the takeout point, Kavik camp (one of the most fascinating places I’ve ever been), arriving back in Fairbanks.
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Alaska Day 5
Many hours of rowing, a double rainbow, arriving at takeout point, costumes, and killer squirrels.
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Alaska Day 4
A day of “rest” that ended up being a 8 hour hike in the tussocks (which are really hard to walk through), up to Red Hill, some interesting birds, tracks, bones, skulls, and two moose.
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Alaska Day 3
After swimming in the river the previous day, work up to snow in the morning. Playing with ice fragments and a nice hike.
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Flying to Camp in Alaska
First day in Alaska, flying toward start point on the Canning River in the Arctic National Wildlife Reserve.
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Joseph Scott has written pressfs, a WordPress filesystem. Cool! ∞
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Here’s an update on WordPress woes in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. As far as I know we’ve had no contact with KazakhTelecom. Typically this happens when they don’t like something a blog is saying, so they block or degrade service for everybody. The footer of the site links to Global Voices Anonymous Blogging with WordPress and Tor guide, which is still excellent all these years later. ∞
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Mark Jaquith writes WordPress local dev tips: DB & plugins. ∞
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{EAV_BLOG_VER:c967aa2d93c7cb18} Mark Maunder writes Can WordPress Developers survive without InnoDB? MyISAM vs InnoDB benchmarks. ∞