US Stimulus Package: $2588 to Every American

The US Government stimulus package of 787 billion US dollars ($787,000,000,000) divided by the US population of 304,059,724 equals to $2,588 for every American.

Signs which some economists currently call showing recovery are actually signs of increasing amounts of money being poured into the economy. The economy will be on its way of recovery only when Americans will have repayed this loan and generated some additional return on this investment. Read more »

Perfumes Named After Their Month of Release

Because content is king also in the business of perfumes. Inspired by Ubuntu Linux release cycle.

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Education, Creativity and Individuality

TED Talk by Sir Ken Robinson on importance of education and creativity (via a comment at swissmiss)

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WhiteHouse.gov Runs Drupal

White House opens Web site programming to public. Another proof that Free Software matters. (via WordPress Tavern Forum)

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Concatenate Javascript and CSS Files with WP Minify

Minimizing the number of HTTP requests is one of the easiest ways to make your website load significantly faster. WP Minify is a WordPress plugin by Thaya Kareeson that combines all Javascript and CSS files into one respective file.

WP Minfy uses the old trick of modifying the output buffer before it is sent to the user. And until all plugins and themes start using wp_enqueue_script and wp_enqueue_style, this will remain the most reliable method of doing it.

I approve this plugin.

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Global Debt Comparison

Every Latvian owes $3,766 while every American $22,177 for the amount of public debt its government has accumulated since 1999 — see Global Debt Comparison.

Why do only few economists notice these staggering numbers?

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OSCar 24H

Update: here is the technical specification of OSCar 24^H.

The reason for not writing lately is this:

OSCar 24H cross country racecar.

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Hey, You’re OK

You’ll be fine. The good old song from Ze: zefrank.com/chillout_.mp3

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PubSubHubbub & WordPress

Make your blog’s RSS feed real-time — add this one line of XML:

<link href="http://myhub.example.com/endpoint" rel="hub">

to your RSS feed automatically using this PubSubHubbub WordPress plugin by Josh Fraser. To see how it works, watch this demo of PubSubHubbub by its creators Brad Fitzpatrick and Brett Slatkin.

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WordPress.com Redesign

Jeff has brought to my attention that folks at Automattic are testing a redesign of the WordPress.com front page.

Those arriving at WordPress.com front page are either from other blogs hosted on WordPress.com or search engines, and most of them are interested in creating a blog for themselves. Those who want to explore featured posts are mostly the existing users. Read more »

WordPress and Nginx

The fastest WordPress instance I have ever seen — 14 queries in 0.04 seconds, and Pingdom Tools reporting 0.6 seconds load time for the whole frontpage with a default theme. And all of that on a VPS powered by Debian and Nginx web server at deac.eu in Latvia . I’ll be moving soon.

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Twitter’s Success

Twitter’s success is people discovering the excitement of publishing.

The 140 character limit and the overall simplicity is exactly what attracts even those who didn’t think they had thoughts and ideas worth publishing. The rest of it is just a stripped down e-mail functionality.

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No Font Embedding, Please

The limitations of web design are also its most powerful features, when compared to print. Design is all about finding the best solutions within a specific set of scarce resources.

Fonts are designed to deliver information to the reader in the easiest and fastest way. Aren’t the fonts currently available on various operating systems doing this job well?

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Widget Context Plugin Added to the Official Plugin Repository

I have uploaded the Widget Context plugin to the official plugin repository. From now on, you’ll be getting the updates automatically (even those of you who installed it manually).

If you like this plugin, support the development by a donation.

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Widget Context 0.4.1

There is a new version of Widget Context plugin which is almost a complete rewrite of the plugin with improved performance and added functionality.

For the next version I planing to implement filters that allows developers to add custom context rules.

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Member of the Free Software Fundation

I am now a member of the Free Software Foundation. Here is the talk by Richard Stallman that inspired me to finally become one.

Freedom means not having a master — Richard Stallman

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Palm WebOS and GPL

Here is the source code of Palm’s WebOS — built on top of Linux kernel with more than 1000 patches (via h-online.com).

Does anyone know if it’s the complete OS with windowing & UI parts developed by Palm?

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Widget Context Update for WordPress 2.8

I have updated the Widget Context plugin to fix the CSS overlay issue that was introduced with the latest WordPress upgrade.

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WordPress, Plugins and Open Source

It’s funny how only now when WordPress has been updated and many plugins have stopped working, people realize how important and significant the plugins are.

Show your love for open source — say Thanks and donate. Get the developers’ enthusiasm flowing.

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