Stuff and things.
Seen on the secret Automattic chat room:
photomatt_lap: okay, think we can import their wp_tags to categories and
just switch up those functions to use wp_categories instead of wp_tags?
rboren: Well of course we can...
rboren: It's just software.
Is WordPress the Evian Water of Blogs? I prefer to think of us as the Dublin Dr Pepper. 🙂
Kirk writes about why he likes WordPress. 🙂
I'm a preacher, he's a teacher. We've never had much money and never will, but we've always been rich in friends.
— Mother of the bride at the wedding I went to on Saturday
Words to live by.
I hate flowers. I paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move.
— Georgia O'Keeffe
For the record, I love flowers.
171.5 pounds.
I saw The Barefoot Contessa yesterday on PBS and wow, they really don't make movies like that anymore. A really fascinating film. Ava Gardner was pure beauty, and Humphrey Bogart is very classic.
Okay, the scaling stuff is done. (Well as done as much as you ever are done with scaling.)
Sooooo much good stuff in the queue to get to now.
"Watch your thoughts. They become words. Watch your words. They become deeds. Watch your deeds. They become habits. Watch your habits. They become character. Character is everything."
We may have introduced a bug that was preventing the proper pings getting to Ping-O-Matic, which in turn made it hard for services like Technorati to keep up with the updates from WordPress.com. This post is testing that we fixed it.
Check out Donncha's WP.com blog. Notice anything different? 🙂
One of our primary databases has been offline for weeks thanks to some hardware problems. Thankfully we've been able to run without it, but the existing hardware was beginning to reach its limits, like driving a car on three wheels. The good news is: it's back. And over the next month we have a lot more hardware coming along spread across the country.
You guys did over a half a million pageviews pageviews yesterday, not counting any admin activity. Whew!
Matt on Not-WordPress, mostly photos 