WordPress project head Matt Mullenweg will be working directly with my web host, TextDrive, to help ensure full support for current and future versions of WordPress.
As someone who uses both WordPress and TextDrive, this makes me very happy. 
(Hat tip: Photo Matt, TextDrive Weblog)
Mark Pilgrim is leaving blogging behind.
In what appears to be a terse final post on Dive into Mark, he says “It’s time for me to find a new hobby.” All of his RSS and Atom feeds are now returning HTTP error 410: gone.
Mark’s posting frequency has declined since the birth of his child and his move to a new job at IBM. Benjamin Reitzammer of Things to Write Home About found some clues in Mark’s recent posts about how these and other changes may have influenced his decision to stop blogging.
In a way, it’s nobody’s business but Mark’s why he quit. On the other hand, when someone who’s achieved the level of A-list visibility he has in the blogosphere quits one can’t help but speculate. While I respect his decision, I’m sad to see him go. Mark has a dry wit and way with words that have made him one of the best writers — professional or amateur — on the Web today. Dive into Mark was one of the first blogs I added to my blogroll, and was the very first I subscribed to when I installed my first feed reader.
I have a hunch that, deep down, Mark is too much a writer to leave the public sphere of the Net all together. I don’t blame him, though, for wanting to step back from the weblog format when there is so much new and wonderful to experience in his life right now.
Ta ta for now, Mark. We’ll miss you. Do pop back in occasionally.
The National Crime Prevention Council (the McGruff® people) has an online store where you can buy your own crime scene tape and tamper-evident biohazard and evidence bags.
You just know there’s a cozy suburban neighborhood somewhere in Idaho with a crazy Neighborhood Watch fanatic who actually owns all this stuff. And deploys it at the slightest provocation. I pity his neighbors.
Update: A lot of new search engine traffic here recently. Please note that this post is not about the new Google Talk VOIP / IM client. It is about a funny Google hack that uses the famous search engine to try and complete a sentence that you start. Sorry if this isn’t what you’re looking for, but I hope you enjoy the post anyway. 
(added by Adam on 8/26/2005)
Douwe Osinga, a Google employee, has accumulated a bunch of interesting Google hacks for you to try. The most amusing of these, I think, is “Google Talk.” He describes it thusly:
Use Google talk by entering three or four words below. The system will search for this sentence at Google, find the next word and print that. Than it will remove the first word of the search string, add the found word and repeat. The result seems to be meaningfull sometimes. Other times it is giblish. But always fun.
Putting in “Ask not what your country” got me this:
Ask not what your country can DO for you; What can I do With a Major In. chemistry or biochemistry and Molecular biology, at the University of Michigan.
I think I have a new favorite time waster.
