Matt on Not-WordPress

End User Manifesto.

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.

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. 

Check out Donncha's WP.com blog. Notice anything different?

As always, South by Southwest was the real conference highlight of the year. I tell people that if they can only go to one conference in a year, SxSW is the one to go to. It’s hard to match the sheer quantity of amazing people in one place anywhere else in the world. There is definitely a strong San Francisco contingent, but what really makes it fun is the people who come from all over to participate, thanks to the conference being so cheap. Also there is always a nice vibe with the film and music part overlapping a little bit, brings a little more diversity into the mix.

This year was certainly bigger than any other year I’ve been, and I can only imagine it’ll continue to get larger at least as long as our economic boom continues.

The wifi is awful here, so not much blogging being done.

I was just in this panel on creativity and it was fantastic. The sole panelist was a yoga teacher of some sort and had a really interesting perspective on how posture, breathing, stretching, etc can have dramatic effects. It was probably the first (only?) panel I’ve seen that actually got people to get off their laptops. Everyone was up and stretching and yelling at it was great. Good to see more diverse topics at these sorts of things.