
Lloyd Budd
WordPress Digital Entomologist, WordPress.com VIP Hosting Services Lead, Open Source and Free Culture Participant
Monthly Archives: June 2007
Bookmarks or Links, Oh My
There have now been ~ 75 emails on wp-hackers mailing list on whether “bookmarks” or “links” is the better term in the WordPress experience. As Mark Jaquith wrote some months ago, “It takes less effort to take a deep breath … Continue reading
Posted in Open Source, Web, WordPress
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Why You Don’t Want To Work At A Large Company
It’s no longer about people, it’s about greed.
Posted in Humanity, Work
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Petty
I have been tripping out lately about the problems of the world, many influenced by our American cousins. I am fragile and this “stuff” affects me. I can’t help, but feel that most of what I am most passionate about … Continue reading
Posted in Automattic, Free Culture, Open Source, Personal, WordPress, WordPress.com, Work
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Aggravating “Outdated and Disturbing”
ReputationDefender founder Michael Fertik doesn’t seem to understand the jungle he is in.
Posted in Blogging, Web
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Windows Vista Working edition?
In frustration I clicked on Windows Anytime Upgrade hoping that I could pay for an upgrade to Windows Vista Working edition. Red sweater guy, are you mocking me??
Posted in Computing, Consuming
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Marc Andreessen is on Fire!
Whatever you think about what the browser boy wonder has done since Netscape, you have to appreciate the communication, collaboration, and participation that he has been doing since the beginning of this month at blog.pmarca.com!
Posted in Blogging, Collaborating, Communicating, Web
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“Hot sexy photos” Surprises!
// < ![CDATA[ // < ![CDATA[ google_ad_client = "pub-3553255873579259"; google_ad_width = 728; google_ad_height = 90; google_ad_format = "728x90_as"; google_ad_type = "text_image"; //2007-06-13: Sexy google_ad_channel = "9401297949"; // ]]> I have been very pleasantly surprised by the strange result of all … Continue reading
Mark Towfiq leaves Flock
Mark Towfiq, Flock Vice President of Engineering and Product Development, departure was “announced” today after 1.5 years leading Flock browser development. With any personnel change in a senior role of a small company, you can expect some change in the … Continue reading
Posted in Flock
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What Teachers Make
Brilliant slam poetry by Taylor Mali about how much teachers really make. I don’t make nearly as much as that. Do you?
Posted in Humanity, Opinion
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GNOME switches to WordPress MU!
Today, my hero Jeff Waugh wrote wp-hackers letting us know that GNOME has switched to WordPress µ for GNOME blogs, offering all members of the GNOME community (gnome.org email address) WordPress blogs.
Posted in Free Culture, Open Source, Ubuntu, WordPress
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