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Test post all

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:10:26 -0500

Test post all

Vote for PassWord

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 16:34:41 -0500

Audible

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:09:21 -0500

So, I went to cancel my Audible account today. This account was started as a promo when purchasing my Zune, and knocked $100 off my Zune. I had to agree to a one year contract. I’m fine with that. However, they won’t even let me out of contract with an ETF. I’m just stuck with it. Lame.

This Weekend

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:02:13 -0500

I spent most of the weekend sitting on my couch. I had that feeling of being on the verge of getting sick. Or maybe I’m still a little sick. Anyway, I caught up on Heroes and started watching Flashforward. Definitely loving Flashforward.

On a side note, I have a closing date. November 25th.

Sick

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 10:26:44 -0400

I’ve been fighting something for the past week or so. Mostly chest congestion at this point. And a sore throat that won’t go away.

House Hunting

Sun, 18 Oct 2009 19:40:34 -0400

Assuming all goes according to plan, I will be the owner of a new condo by the end of November. I’ve walked through the place twice, signed the paperwork today. Just waiting on approval from the upper management because of all the discounts I’m getting.

testing

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 14:24:07 -0400

testing blackberry app

Weird Posts

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 14:19:00 -0400

Apparently I had the WordPress News feed posting to my Tumblr Account. Weird.

You publish a lot of quality content (trust us, we know). And so we understand that making it...

Thu, 30 Jul 2009 09:45:53 -0400

You publish a lot of quality content (trust us, we know). And so we understand that making it easily accessible to your faithful readers is very important for you as a blogger. Sure, our Categories, Tag Cloud, and Archives widgets do their parts, but we’ve come up with an extra little something that you may care to use.

Enter our newest shortcode – [archives].

This little guy will allow you to quickly and easily add a post index to anywhere on your blog (page, post, or …

Say goodbye to messing around with HTML in a Text widget just to get an “About Me” in your...

Thu, 23 Jul 2009 08:19:44 -0400

Say goodbye to messing around with HTML in a Text widget just to get an “About Me” in your sidebar. With the new Gravatar widget it only takes a few seconds to achieve this and stamp your blog as your own!

If you’re not familiar with a Gravatar it’s a graphical representation used to identify yourself in WordPress blogs and other sites. It’s already built in to your WordPress.com account and can be found on your profile page.

This Gravatar widget allows you to quickly and…

PollDaddy joined the Automattic team last year, and we have been working on adding some of our...

Fri, 17 Jul 2009 18:35:06 -0400

PollDaddy joined the Automattic team last year, and we have been working on adding some of our great features directly into the WordPress platform ever since.

Ratings

The PollDaddy rating feature that was enabled on WordPress.com last week has really started to see some use. Over 100k blog posts, pages and comments on WordPress.com are now being rated. If you need some help getting started, check out our support page for ratings.

This excellent demo video from WordPress.tv gives a…

Here at WordPress.com, we always run the most recent version of the WordPress open source software....

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 15:02:12 -0400

Here at WordPress.com, we always run the most recent version of the WordPress open source software. In addition, we do custom development so that we can offer features not included in the open source core product (like VideoPress, built-in polls, etc.). Because WordPress.com gets new features implemented as they are developed, we don’t usually talk too much about big version releases. For example, WordPress 2.8 was released recently, but we didn’t announce it here because WordPress.com…

Last month we launched the Yahoo! App and 360 importer so you can migrate your content to...

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 07:10:42 -0400

Last month we launched the Yahoo! App and 360 importer so you can migrate your content to WordPress.com quickly and easily. And we introduced the SocialVibe widget, which helps you earn donations for the charity of your choice. July will bring more feature updates, and more of the themes and customizations you’ve been asking for. We’re listening.

Here are the stats for June:

388,580 blogs were created.
5,845,417 posts were published.
411,540 new users joined.
5,800,941 file…

Remember National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) back in November? You all used the opportunity to...

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 06:47:45 -0400

Remember National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) back in November? You all used the opportunity to take a swing at churning out a 50,000-word novel on your blogs in only one month — some with great success!

There’s also NaBloPoMo, which has nothing to do with post-modernism, but with blogging! It stands for National Blog Posting Month.

It’s an even more fitting occasion for posting regularly to your blog on the topics that interest you. And maybe the best part is that it starts…

You spend a lot of time creating great content and attracting an audience for your blog. What if...

Mon, 15 Jun 2009 13:48:00 -0400

You spend a lot of time creating great content and attracting an audience for your blog. What if you could use that influence to make a positive social impact? Now you can.

We’ve teamed up with SocialVibe, and now by adding the SocialVibe widget to your blog, you are able to earn donations for the charity of your choice by getting sponsored by a brand that appeals to you.

Each time someone visits your blog and engages with your brand (by rating a video, for example), you’re making a…

Sorry for this being the latest wrap-up ever. May was a fun month for us. We rolled out a ton of...

Sun, 14 Jun 2009 23:47:32 -0400

Sorry for this being the latest wrap-up ever.

May was a fun month for us. We rolled out a ton of new features: the ability to add YouTube videos and polls to comments, stats in your time zone, the VideoPress upgrade (with HD!), post by email, new stats charts, comment search, improved comment reply by email, and VideoPress.com.

May was also the month for our largest-ever WordCamp San Francisco. Mission Bay Conference Center was a packed house, but (amazingly)…

Created by Train Horns

Tue, 03 Mar 2009 13:13:43 -0500

Created by Train Horns

Hulu Blog Doing hard things

Thu, 19 Feb 2009 13:10:49 -0500

Hulu Blog Doing hard things:

Less than a month ago, I purchased an Apple TV for the sole purpose of installing Boxee on it and having an easy to use front end for Hulu. Fortunately that was less than 30 Days ago and I’ll be returning the Apple TV for a refund.

It saddens me that the content providers don’t understand the win/win situation they had going for them. I had actually cancelled my cable TV subscription and was able to rely completely on Hulu and an antenna for my TV viewing needs. I was legally obtaining all of my content, with commercials even. What more do these companies want from me?

Comments

Tue, 30 Dec 2008 11:43:16 -0500

Just noticed my comments aren’t working. I’ll have to fix that later.

It's Official...

Tue, 30 Dec 2008 11:42:21 -0500

…I’m moving. Not far though, just to Carmel. Probably a little closer to work, and a lot closer to the Monon. I got an email this morning telling me that my app had been approved so I’m going to run over to pick up my welcome pack on my lunch break. I’ve got pretty much everything ready to move, but I definitely need to get my exact move in date so I can get my utilities and uverse scheduled.