Buta no Ie

Via ArsTechnica:

If you want to try out the latest and greatest from Redmond, but missed out on the limited release of the pre-RC1 build last week, now’s your chance. Microsoft has made RC1 available to the public in both 32-bit and 64-bit flavors. You can download it straight from Microsoft or via the Akamai Download Manager.

A quick list of a few must have additions for WordPress:

• Sandbox; a self-described theme for themers. It produces semantic and valid XHTML 1.0/Transitional markup, is widget compatible and has the ability to be easily skinned via CSS.
• Sidebar Widgets; makes it dead simple to add and order your sidebar content with drag-and-drop administration. No need to hack away at the sidebar.php code for the timid.
• Flickr Photo Album; this plugin will pull in your Flickr photosets and display them as albums on your WordPress site. It will also allow you to easily insert your Flickr photos into your blog posts with just a couple clicks.
• Ultimate Tag Warrior; allows you to easily tag your posts inside the Write Post page and display your tags in many different ways.
• Search Everything; did you know that the default WP search doesn’t search pages and comments? I didn’t know that either but this plugin adds that functionality.

I had the pleasure of being the MC for my friends’ wedding yesterday. The whole event seems to have been a hit, my MCing include, if comments from the guests can be believed.

Rich and Phuong, congratulations once again and enjoy your honeymoon!

Unfortunately at the very end of the night, I somehow managed to drop my camera and not notice it AND then proceed to run it over with a car.

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Just read this great article on SEOmoz on how to increase your blog’s traffic.

A must read if you’re just starting up a blog and want to actually have some people viewing it.