If you're in the market for a quick and simple way to display a Gravatar in a WordPress sidebar then check out the recently released Gravatar Widget plugin, as seen on WordPress.com.
Some of the features of the plugin:
Apart from bills the only thing that comes through my post box are flyers for local pizza companies and private hire taxi firms. I wish I could get Akismet for my post box (or maybe this already exists - a big dog).
Anyway, a while back I found an unusual hand-printed business card had been slipped in alongside the junk. I almost threw it away before noticing that it contained the URL for a WordPress.com blog. On closer inspection it turned out to be an advert for a blog about the area in which I am living, and which must have been hand delivered by the author - an unusual way to promote a blog. I can't imagine that a similar online method of promotion would have made it past spam filters.
The blog itself is an interesting read and I've already learned about several places of interest in my local area, as well as reading about some of the more colourful local characters. It seems that sometimes hand delivered spam is ok.
One question I am frequently asked about HeadSpace is whether there are any guides. The HeadSpace page lists the ones that I'm aware of and now includes two nice articles that were written by Andrew Kolyvas and posted on Site Sketch 101:
Thanks Andrew!
Earlier on this year Matt Mullenweg got in touch to see if I was interested in doing a bit of work for Automattic, with the idea of allowing people to post to their blog using email. I jumped at the chance and after a few months of part-time tinkering and a shock exposure to MIME, out came Post by Email and an introduction to the vagaries of spam.
Today marks my first day working full-time as a 'code wrangler' for Automattic. As a prelude to this the past three weeks have been spent manning the support desk at WordPress.com, which has been enormously useful in learning how WordPress.com works.
Suffice to say that I'm very excited about what's coming up, and I'm looking forward to working with the rest of the team. There's a whole bunch of good stuff going on and after having spent four years using WordPress, writing about WordPress, and developing more than a few plugins for WordPress, I can't wait to get stuck in.
Hard drives. From my first exciting 20MB drive to the monster 1TB beast now keeping my backups. And where you have drives you surely have drive enclosures. Here I'll be looking at the shiny silver and white Icy Dock MB662 RAID enclosure.
The MB662 is not a complicated NAS storage system. It has no web server, no iTunes software, no ethernet port or media server. It does however have a couple of flashing blue lights and this list of features:
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