Category: Web

A couple of months ago I signed up through SpreadFirefox.com to have my name featured in a New York Times ad for the release of Firefox 1.0. I kept my eye on the progress of the ad and it eventually garnered 10,000 sponsors and the ad was run on 16th of this month and you can get a PDF document featuring all of the names. I was initially disappointed as my name didn’t seem to appear but after corresponding with one of the guys from SpreadFirefox, we ascertained that my name had been put down under ‘G’. So see if you can find it. 😀

This is absolutely classic. 😆

Seems like a few of the guys from the WP forums have come up with a fix for the Trackback issue which was affecting v1.2 “Mingus”. Good news. Hat tip to nuclear moose candy.

NuclearMoose managed to sit down and quiz lead WordPress developer Matt Mullenweg about the forthcoming 1.3 release. Being reading NuclearMoose’s blog now for about a month as I’m now using Bloglines to aggregate my feeds. Really handy web site and does exactly what it says on the tin.

Saw a post just now on photomatt.net about French bloggers using WordPress and it got me thinking about how many Irish people are using it. So, I bounced over to Google and did a search for WordPress on “Irish sites only” and it turned up the following (entries posted as Google found them):

• Punkassmomo by Dermot Williams
• Marc’s Blog by Marc 🙂
• Macreddin Market IQ Blog by Ed Byrne
• Dublin Art and Technology Association by same.
• Human Connectedness Group Blog by MIT Media Lab Europe
• Coin-Operated Blog by Jonah Brucker-Cohen
• Stublog by page
• Tiernan’s Blog by Tiernan O’Toole

Impressed by the MIT Media Lab blog, I had a tour of their place about 6 months ago and they’re developing some cool technology and seem to know good blogging software too. BTW I’m trusting Google that these are actually Irish blogs but its opened my eyes to other bloggers using the same tools I am, in my own country. I haven’t got much time to post more at the moment….so, let the call go out for Irish WordPressers to make their presence known…. 🙂