Holy Shmoly!

Toni announced yesterday the launch of the Automattic Support Network. This has of course attracted the attention of many blogs who have discussed the business implications but Peter Chris wonders if WordPress.org support will suffer. Here’s another post on the same issue but Matt replies with an excellent rebuttal.
I very much doubt the support [...]

Oscar has just been groomed, washed and clipped to perfection! Leon, who runs Mobile Dog Wash called out this morning and spent the last hour on him in his van. He did a great job, and I definitely recommend him!

Rich Boakes has written an extension to Akismet that makes deleting all the spam comments much easier. His extension adds a “Worst Offenders” list at the top of the Akismet page. The list is ordered by hits from IP address and helped me delete 2,407 comments with 3 or 4 clicks and saved me scrolling [...]

I'm just back from the recycling area in Blarney and I'm perplexed. There's a huge sign there saying that effective from the start of this month, papers and plastics won't be collected. The large container for these products is conspicuous by it's absence.
The sign also has "No Dumping!" written on it in pen, and some [...]

Damien Mulley has the scoop about the latest development at University College Cork. All students will be given blogs!
While that’s great news for blogging in Ireland, I’m disappointed that they didn’t choose WordPress Mu. I had a quick look around a few blogs and noticed a few things:

They do have permanent links, but links to [...]

This cute kitten symply cannot keep it’s eyes open!
From Cute Overload.

Wow, Flock is fast! I wonder if it chews memory like FF 1.5 too?
It’s also a lot more polished than when I tried it a few months back while debugging their sign up page on WordPress.com: preferences, cookies and form data were all imported from Firefox. The little Greasemonkey face isn’t showing in the status [...]

Scott Adams invited people to tell their most amazing personal story. Here’s what he got..
Update! Scott responds with some stories of his own. Is San Francisco that dangerous or was it just the ’80s?

Wow, former Taoiseach Charles Haughey is dead. He died about an hour ago at the age of 80, after a long illness fighting prostate cancer. RTE News has more information.
Ar dheis De go raibh a anam.

This display, is in my opinion the best use you can make of a fizzy drink. These crazy guys mixed over 200 litres of Diet Coke and 500 Mentos mints to create multiple geysers, swinging arcs, and volleys of liquid shooting into the sky!
Watch the movie and then read the science bit!