Matt on Not-WordPress

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?