Totally awesome to see Matthew Moore covering OpenAustralia’s efforts to bring the register of members’ interests to the web:
Given the fortunes spent in the nation’s Parliament, and Kevin Rudd’s professed desired for more transparency in government, it seems absurd that volunteers are left to do the job any self-respecting parliament would have done long ago.
Update: Holy crap, the little devil has escaped! There could only be one explanation… it must be using some kind of photon-traversing, CCD-infecting, executable, self-modifying JPEG trojan code. We must find it, save the cheerleader, and save humanity… Help us save the day at linux.conf.au 2009!
WordPress 2.7 is an awesome release. The revision of the admin backend, despite being so soon after the changes in 2.5, is fantastic… particularly for “real users”. I enjoyed putting forward my blunt perspective on the issue while Matt and Jane were in the crowd at WordCamp Australia. Developers and contributors don’t hear “you’re doing the right thing” and “thank you” often enough. 
So, thank you WordPress hackers for another great release! (And thanks to Donncha for already working on the big merge for WordPress MU 2.7… I’m really looking forward to deploying it on GNOME Blogs.)
Plus, make sure you check out the in-yo-face download counter.
"Wordpress 2.7 is shit-hot" by Halans
If you’re trying to figure out how to recursively download a directory with lftp, the wonderful command-line FTP and SFTP client, this is what you want:
mirror <directory>
… and that’s that. Hopefully this will be more helpful to someone than the current Google documentation results. 
Update: Thanks to molok in the comments, here’s how you upload recursively:
mirror -R <directory>
If you’re missing out on WordCamp Australia this weekend, you might really be missing out! A bunch of sessions that will be of particular interest to WordPress fans (and fans of all things new and groovy) have snuck their way into the published schedule, including:
Might we see a live WordPress 2.7 release? Perhaps we’ll see some of the goodies previewed in Ranaan Bar-Cohen’s recent “Seven Tips for Virtual Collaboration” presentation… of course, you’ll never-never know if you never-never go.
I will be there. Wearing green.
Bonus: Crikey Blogs is now featured on WordPress Showcase!
Somewhere out there is a person with enough gumption and perseverance to write a Venus filter that would strip Planets of idiotic memes using some kind of clever heuristic or learning system. Perhaps we can call this the immoral study of “eumemics”.
Because this would just be cheating:
exclude = (the nearest book)
WordCamp Australia 2008 will be held in Sydney at the end of the month, right before OSDC… and I intend to celebrate my first WordCamp by giving a talk!
Yes, I will dimly glow next to such bright stars in the universe of WordPress as Matt Mullenweg and Jane Wells (who is kicking butt with the WordPress 2.7 admin redesign), as I present an exclusive, behind-the-scenes look at the recently launched Australian über-blog-network, Crikey Blogs.
WordPress lovers and the blog-curious should come along and join the fun!
This is so chock-full of incredible goodness, I simply can’t comprehend how many layers of awesome there are. John Williams film music + Star Wars to song + choral incredibility + split-screen hilarity.
President-Elect Obama’s Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel was the inspiration for The West Wing’s #1 White House hottie, Josh Lyman.
(Interesting aside: After serving as Deputy Chief of Staff to Leo McGarry through President Bartlet’s administration, Josh Lyman became Chief of Staff under President Matt Santos at the end of the series. The eerie similarities between Obama’s reality and The West Wing’s storyline continue…)
Ari Emanuel was the inspiration for Entourage’s hilarious super-agent, Ari Gold.
Ezekiel Emanuel is a medical ethicist.
Screenwriters, start your engines!
Yeah, perhaps the Emanuel family won’t be scoring a hat trick.
Update: Jonathan informs me that the Emanuel brothers were interviewed by Charlie Rose this week. Now to find it online!
